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Hi readers and welcome back for the last time! I have made it to the end of the book Pushout written by Monique Morris, and as much as I don’t want to stop writing on this blog, all good things must come to an end. Throughout the process of reading, I have learned a number of valuable lessons, and I’m here today to tell you about them!   The first lesson this book has taught me was to appreciate my education. For the amount of complaining I do in my life about school (which is the vast majority of my complaints) I have realized how lucky I am to be able to receive a proper education. Many of the stories Morris has explained throughout the novel show that the education system is quite different depending on your skin color. An example of this can be shown through a story that Shelia tells. At the time of the incident, Shelia had just lost a family member and has also been dealing with a wide range of health issues. Because of this, she wasn’t able to complete assignments as fast as...

Hello readers and welcome back to my blog that reflects my thoughts and ideas about the novel Pushout written By Monique Morris. In this post, I will be talking about the novel and how it relates to current events! So let’s dive in! First off, I have to admit that I’m not much of a nonfiction reader, and normally the idea of reading it seems tedious and for lack of a better term, boring. But after indulging in this book, my opinion has since changed. It very well could be that I have been reading nonfiction about the wrong topics, or that the topic of race is just something that I feel strongly about. Either way, this book has been nothing short of educational and shocking to me. I think that one of the reasons the topic of race and how it plays a role in the United States is so moving to me is because of all the current events that surround it.   9 months ago, me, my camera, my sister and my mother did something new for the first time: We went to a protest. My mother was, as any m...