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Examine a literary element: Theme such as discrimination in The Smell of Apples.

The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr is about an eleven year old child experiences with the social turmoil and racial oppression that are destroying his own land. This story is set in South Africa during apartheid era in the 1970s. Many coming of age stories seems to be written with some sort of discrimination, which builds one of the characters into a strong or weaker person by the end of the novel.
In the last portion of the reading one theme that stood out was discrimination. Discrimination is an unfair difference treatment of people based on their race, gender, religion or disability. In fact, some people tend to discriminate against for no apparent reason, so such victims go through a struggle to show that they are equal in race and gender. Throughout, the novel the discrimination grew and was very graphic, which tells me that during the apartheid era discrimination was common and up and out in......

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