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Thursday, 31 August 2017

Reading Log 5

Title: Noughts & Crosses
Author: Malorie Blackman
Text Type: Novel
Date Finished: 31/8/17

Summary
Noughts & Crosses is a book about slavery and human rights but they have put a spin on it by having the Black people(Crosses) in power and the White people(Noughts) as the slaves.

Personal Response
This book is about slavery and human rights with a twist. Instead of having the black people as slaves which is what happened in real life but they turned it around to give whites a feeling of what it was like for the ancestors of the black people who lived in the olden day. We see this when Callum who is a Nought boy who is dreaming about living in nice mansions like the Crosses but when he awakes into reality he says " I live in a three up, two down house", which looks like a shack representing his home. This links to a lot of countries that treat mostly middle east people like garbage and they don't give them equal rights as white people and they judge them on where they are from and what nationality they are instead of the person that they really are, just like the white people treated the black people in the cotton fields.

Noughts and Crosses shows us that the black people never had the same rights as the white people had. We see this when Callum gets excepted into a nice classy Cross school and on his first day he is attacked and bullied by all the Crosses because in their words they don't want a "animal" roaming around their school and they want him to go back to were he was from because he's not good enough to stay at the school, even the teachers didn't like the Nought student. We see this when Sephy who is friends with Callum tries to go eat with him and gets food thrown at her by the students and one of the teachers grabs her by the arm and pulls her away from the table before giving he a punishment. This links to American people that think that any middle eastern person is a terrorist and that they think that any middle eastern person in a school is planning an attack.

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