Education Of Little Tree Essay

While reading the book Education of Little Tree we were told that Forest Carter was a part of the KKK also known as the Klu Klux Klan. This is a group of racist that mainly target African Americans. This was proven that he was a part of the KKK and lots of people do not want to read his book because he was apart of this group.

My personal thoughts on literature is that it does not really matter who writes a good book. If Adolph Hitler wrote Harry Potter I would still want to tread it because it is a well written series. But the fact that everything in this book is so true and it really shows that all the people in the world really do do these things I believe that if a racist can show how the world really is wether he believes it is write or not is irrelevant. Even if this was from a perspective of a racist it would not change my
I did not see a problem with this because this is really how the world is. There is no point in sugar coating books and making the children of the world grow up thinking that nothing bad ever happens in the world. There have been many influential people in the world but Oprah Winfrey has been one of them for a long time while talking about overcoming racism she said, “Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

I did not personally like the book because I did not think that it kept my attention and it skipped around a lot so I felt like there were a lot of gaps in the storyline but when I found out that Forrest Carter was a part of the KKK did not affect my decision to read this book. Take Hitlers book Mein Kampf for example. Lots of people read his book and he is considered one of the worst people ever to walk the earth. I think that some people want to see the work from a different persecutive even if they think that what they have done or what their beliefs are