"I've just never heard of a Negro Lawyer, thats all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what never been." -Chapter 7 - p.g 121
This quote is between Lily the main character and Zach, a worker at the Boatwright Honeyhouse. Zach is also Lily's best friend, but can be defined as a crush. This quote is pulled out from a conversation between Lily and Zach. This conversation shows a lot of stereotyping and judgment from Lily. Lily has only a limited understanding of her surrounding and goes with what majority of society believes. Lily's close minded opinion of African Americans stems from the fact that the only African American she know is Rosaleen, who is an undeducatd housekeeper but also is a maternal figure. Since Lily knows Rosaleen, her motherly figure, and also the only African she knows. Rosaleen is a uneducated housekeeper. For example from the quote, "black men" don't become lawyers and "black women" are uneducated housekeepers. Later in the text, the three sisters who own the honey house, alongside Zach talks to Lily about, choices, power and decisions people make. August, one of the three sisters that work and own the honey house and Zach, stated talking to Lily about choices, power and decisions that people make. August tells Lily that she decided to be beekeeper and that different people decide on many other occupation. Personally from this quote, I believe Lily was being very racist and stereotypical. Lacking knowledge she might of made poor judgement and wen along with word of society. I chose to discuses this quote from the book, because its important to realize that we should not be stereotypical nor racist. Decisions are always personal!! Whatever you want to persue can always be persued. This can bring the themes of judgement, stereotyping and discrimination. Therefore, I chose this quote as it unravels the theme of the story,
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