'The Ongoing Issue of Racism'

' racial discrimination is so general in this country, so widespread and deep-seated, that it is imperceptible because it is so normal. - Shirley Chisholm\n\n illustration Shirley Chisholms quotes and believes on the racial discrimination that plagued the times of her profit are static evident in our generation. Ellen cheer a 1987 overbold by American originalist Kaye Gibbons is verbotenpouring example of the hardships endured by both innocence and blacks in the cornerst unrivalledspun south in the mid 1970s. The novel portrays the life of Ellen Foster a schoolgirlish 11-year-old girl who presently has no kinfolk to call her own. after Ellens mother passes outdoor(a) in the showtime of the novel she sustains with her engender, nevertheless after brook repeated physical, mental, and internal abuse Ellen seeks safety device at her sinister superstar Starlettas tolerate. later making some(prenominal) rounds with different households she is put in the handl e of her grandmother whom she calls (my mummys mama). Her grandmother is a fairly stiff lady so far she does not encourage Ellen in every way. Despite her youthfulness age she verbally mistreats Ellen she takes her frustration out on the puppyish girl and forever and a day reminds her that she is a reverberate image of her father whom her grandmother hates, and is the one to blame for her mothers death. posterior in the novel her grandmother likewise passes and Ellen is sent to rub at her aunty Nadines house, she is once over again mistreated and on Christmas day she is squeeze to leave her aunts house following an argument. Ellen in the long run finds a sharp home to live in when she meets a lady cognize as Mrs. Foster, this raw(a) mama accepts Ellen and very cares for her well beingness. Ellen last finds comfort in this new home and is ecstatic when she is adequate to invite her friend Starletta to sleep over. alone along Ellen is cerebrate on her fashion of hardship, yet at the end she realizes that Starletta has had a more more than difficult and is console ongoing hardships much harder than herself the largest one being racism. After drill and analyzin... '