The Secret Life of BeesThis novel has high literary merit as it contains values of feminism in it. Those values that women today and the future still can relate to. This would be a timeless piece and its lessons will not fade. It takes the readers through lily's life, it was very detailed and it allows them to connect to her. It's also very easy for readers to differentiate her relationship with her father and the Boatwright sisters. This novel also proves very good points regarding a women's role and society's view on the minorities. Many of the intermixing things lily did were frowned upon by society and to this day, people still believe in racial stereotypes. The novel also pulls on the heartstring as it goes in depth with lily's relationship with her mother, that some today can still relate to, and a tragic death of one the Boatwright sisters. Compared to the other novels. this takes more of a female perspective unlike The Kite Runner, yet it slightly deals with the social inequality that is seen in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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The Kite RunnerThe novel has quite a bit of literary merit because of modern issues such as guilt, sacrifice, ethnic equality and homosexuality. This particular novel takes place in a different country with a different culture than what we are used to reading about which forces us as readers to leave or comfort zone and learn and engage into the speaker's culture. It also shows the five main kind of relationships that exist; Romantic, family, enemies, when your romantic feelings are not corresponded, and friendship. Unlike The Secret Life of Bees, the characters are mostly male and seen from a male's perspective but however does have a strong female character which is the main character's wife.
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Brave New World
This novel has a lot of literary merit because of the fact that it will make you feel uncomfortable and question your value as a person. In the novel it is an alternate universe where the "government" changes the way we see the natural world ultimately destroying their own value. It is believed by the people to be a happy place do to "soma", which is just a drug to us, but is actually filled with blind and ignorance. |