Where do you see social justice themes/idea popping up in your independent reading life?
In the Divergent series by: Veronica Roth some of the characters belong to a group called the Factionless they struggle for food and are not in a good place economically, they are like the people that struggle today economically. In these books the factionless live in the "fringe" like outside society and they do the menial work like bus driving and the dirty work for very little money and food. The Factionless are mostly separated from the people in their official factions and they hardly see the Factionless. This reminds me of our world today how the upper and lower classes are so separated. The divide is not right and any people have said so like our new mayor Bill de Blasio and in the Occupy Wall Street protest to give a few examples. The Factionless often didn't pass the test of their faction and then got kicked out and were then Factionless and banned from joining another faction and can't find a way to join back in society. When many people lose their jobs it is hard for them to get back up and recover and find a new job. Especially since housing is so incredibly expensive and no one is making less expensive housing and jobs are so scarce and hard to find these days. Many of the jobs Factionless are given aren't good enough or high paying for them to support themselves and also they do not have any housing for Factionless. Today many people have jobs that aren't paying enough for the labor and many do not have things such as benefits. It is unjust that many people have to struggle through everyday life to get money and that there is such a divide in between the upper and lower class.
I really love how you related the topics in the book directly to todays version of that problem. That made it a lot easier to understand and read. Amazing! :)
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