Arkish’s Reviews > A Lesson Before Dying > Status Update

<spoiler> Manners is for the living, food for the living, too </spoiler>

Don’t bring your performances of civility and grace to the dead. Don't pretend your rituals and kindnesses are for him when he's his about to die by your own hand. Don't. Don't. Don't.

"You’re smart—maybe a little too smart for your own good."

Who knew I’d end up relating to a book that talks about racism, only to realize it hits just as hard when you see it through the lens of India’s brutal classism?

Society doesn’t need different skin tones to discriminate; status does the job just fine.

"You’re smart—maybe a little too smart for your own good."

Who knew I’d end up relating to a book that talks about racism, only to realize it hits just as hard when you see it through the lens of India’s brutal classism? Society doesn’t need different skin tones to discriminate; status does the job just fine.

what do you mean a teacher is hitting his students by ruler because his mood his off?
wait this book is set in year 1948??
not in 2018?
damn
i thought it is just another modern tale
alas!

Reading because listening seems to be an art I have killed growing up.