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One of the themes in this book is racism. In the book, when Rosaleen is going to register to vote, she was beaten up because she is black. In the end, she didn’t manage to vote until later in the story. Another theme was religion. The sisters and all the other people had made their religion about the black mary. They touched the red heart on her chest to get the strength and power to continue.

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Love was a big part of this book. First it was about how little T-Ray loved Lily. It also had the love of June and Neil. Lily and Zach had also fallen in love and told the future to each other. This book was just full of love all around.

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DEATH/SUICIDE
In the book death is a big thing that happens because Lily's mother died and that effected Lily a lot. Later in the book May killed herself because of life problems and we learned about April killing herself earlier in the book so it was the cause to most of the effects in the book.

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Racism was a huge thing in this book. First of all Rosaleen was put in jail for standing her own ground. Lily was judged by others because she was staying with the Boatright sisters because they were black. Such as when Lily's father saw her staying with black people he was not impressed.

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Death played a major role in SLoB. In the beginning May was sad because her sister had died previously and she never got over it. Eventually May also died and it hit everyone hard. Lily's mother died when she was super young and Lily struggled about that growing up.

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This book involved a lot of racism when it came to Rosaline voting. It also had it with Lily staying with black people. It had all the colored people on a lower level just cause of their skin.

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Racism had a huge impact in this book. Lily was judged by many people for staying with the Boatwright sisters. Rosaleen and Zach also faced hardships in jail because of the color of their skin.

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The book was also about racism because Rosaleen went to vote but got thrown into jail. They also always asked Lily why she was always with colored people.

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FEMINISM
This theme is a good theme for this novel because of August. August for this time zone is a very strong independent black women. She has her own business, religion, house and family. She speaks her opinion and does whats best for others which is a very strong thing for a black women to do in this time zone.

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Maternity
Lilly's mother passes away at a young age and Lilly never really had a mother figure for women things and guidance.

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MATERNITY
Lily grew up without her mother and had to learn to do things on her own with the help of Rosaleen. She had her father to help her but he was not very nice and he also said that Lily killed her mother.

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(maternity) Lily had to grow up with out a mother figure in her life. Without her mother in her life she felt that she had no one to talk to. Without her mother she felt she had no idea what to do in her life.

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Racism is a good theme for this book because it shows what some black people had to go through back then, getting falsely  accused or getting in trouble for the smallest things

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I think that the book was about maternity. Lily had to grow up without her mom because she killed her. Throughout the whole book she's trying to please her mom and find out what happens to her.

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Racism
One reason the book is racist is that every time a white person sees Lilly with the sisters and Rosaline. She gets judged for being with black people.

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FACING YOUR TRUTH/REALITY
For this novel this theme fits it quiet well because Lily has to face reality and the truth about what has happened in her life.

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I feel like death was a good theme for the novel because it shows that no matter if you are dead someone will always care.

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The book was racist because when Rosaleen went to register to vote she was disrespected and was taken to jail. They also always asked Lily why she was with colored people

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The book was racist because when Rosaleen went to register to vote she was disrespected and was taken to jail.

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The Boatwright sisters had their own kind of religion that was very similar to Christianity.

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Lily had to grow up without her mother. Which was hard because there was not a good parent in her house.

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Lily had to grow up without guidance from her mother. Her mother wasn't able to parent her because T-Ray said Lily killed her.

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Lily had to grow up without guidance from her mother. Her mother wasn't able to parent her because Lily killed her when she was little.