Children of Blood and Bones ⎢ Critical Literacy

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today we did another reflection session. Today I decided to do a reflection about a book that we have been reading in English. I have already made a post about this book, but that was when we were starting the book, but now that we have finished it I decided to do a reflection about it. 

Title: Children of Blood and Bone

The book was written by Tomi Adeyemi and features South African Gods and Goddesses. The story features a girl who goes on a journey to attempt to bring back magic to the kingdom of Orïsha. The author of the story developed this story with the purpose to inform readers about the tragic shootings happening to African-Americans. She also gained inspiration from Yoruba culture, books and animations such as Harry Potter and Avatar: The Last Airbender. 

Text Type: Book 

Text Creator: Tomi Adeyemi 

Text Purpose: To inform 

What views of the world is the text presenting?

In the text, it represents unfairness to a certain class of people. One class is superior to the other. It shows how the lower class were treated and how they were judged by the higher class. This can be linked to something in the world that would be called social class, something that is used to group people into a set of hierarchical social categories. To further explain, a certain class will always be on top of the other class the person of the higher class may have a person of lower-class working for them. The book explains how the people of a higher class were mistreating the people of a lower class.