The Memory Keepers Daughter
The Memory Keepers Daughter
Racism in our society has been a character trait that many of us today still
wonder what must be going through people’s minds to think that they are better or it’s
okay to disrespect people who are not like themselves. We as people are in general very
bias even if you don’t mean to be, you can be bias to the types of foods that you prefer, or
to people who may or may not have mental illnesses. Truth be told know body is normal
or perfect each and every one of us have our flaws, insecurities and concerns. Racism has
been around for centuries way back to when the pharos of Egypt would look down to
anybody who wasn’t royal or was well respected like they where, to when the Europeans
started to set sail and discovered Africa and started to capture the Africans and sell them
for profit or make them work under hard conditions without any rewards or respect to
when Adolph Hitler though that anybody else that didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes
also know as the Arian race where not meant to be on this earth and the only way to get
rid of them was to try and kill them all. Just like in “The Memory Keepers Daughter” by
Kim Edwards when David Henry gave up his daughter Phoebe without letting his wife no
just because she had a disability and from his previous experiences with his very own
sister having a disability he wanted to prevent his wife and other child from having to go
through the same thing that his mom and him had to go through. And when Caroline was
ordered to take Phoebe to the house just for children with mental disabilities and she had
decided not to do what David wanted her to but to take the child under her wing and raise
her as her very own child and when people would say hurtful, rude, mean, and ignorant
things such as ‘What a shame’ she couldn’t understand why people would say mean
things. This book The Memory Keepers Daughter can be
Racism in our society has been a character trait that many of us today still
wonder what must be going through people’s minds to think that they are better or it’s
okay to disrespect people who are not like themselves. We as people are in general very
bias even if you don’t mean to be, you can be bias to the types of foods that you prefer, or
to people who may or may not have mental illnesses. Truth be told know body is normal
or perfect each and every one of us have our flaws, insecurities and concerns. Racism has
been around for centuries way back to when the pharos of Egypt would look down to
anybody who wasn’t royal or was well respected like they where, to when the Europeans
started to set sail and discovered Africa and started to capture the Africans and sell them
for profit or make them work under hard conditions without any rewards or respect to
when Adolph Hitler though that anybody else that didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes
also know as the Arian race where not meant to be on this earth and the only way to get
rid of them was to try and kill them all. Just like in “The Memory Keepers Daughter” by
Kim Edwards when David Henry gave up his daughter Phoebe without letting his wife no
just because she had a disability and from his previous experiences with his very own
sister having a disability he wanted to prevent his wife and other child from having to go
through the same thing that his mom and him had to go through. And when Caroline was
ordered to take Phoebe to the house just for children with mental disabilities and she had
decided not to do what David wanted her to but to take the child under her wing and raise
her as her very own child and when people would say hurtful, rude, mean, and ignorant
things such as ‘What a shame’ she couldn’t understand why people would say mean
things. This book The Memory Keepers Daughter can be
Cited: Page • Blair, Ian “Racism infects the whole of society” New statesman [1996] September 6 2012: 22 student resource cater- Gold web 14 February 2012 • Edwards, Kim The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. New York Penguin, 2005 • Wolfe, Andrea Powell. “(Re) visioning the Cinderella Myth: Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems” Interactions 17.2 (2008)111-23