Small great things

In the end of her novel "Small Great Things," the author Jodi Picoult says that she always wanted to write a novel about racism in the United States, and from the beginning, she emphasized that she "grew up as a white woman with social privilege in society," and she conducted many years of research and numerous personal interviews to be able to express the voices of people who are not like her: men, teenagers, people with suicidal tendencies, battered wives subjected to abuse, and rape victims. She says that what drove her to write these stories was her anger and her desire to give them a voice so that their awareness of racism would increase. The plot of the novel is exciting, its structure is strong, it moves at a good pace, and the style is smooth. Jodi Picoult benefited from all stereotypes of Black people: here is the Black widow mother, the angry Black woman, the mother, the maid, the teenager, and the prominent preacher. The alternation in the chapters clearly shows the difference in perspectives between Ruth, the racist white father, Turk Bauer, and Ruth's lawyer, Kennedy McQuarie. The author succeeded when she let the novel deepen in Kennedy's narration, a story of a white woman who thinks she is more liberal than she actually is. It is Kennedy's journey to reconcile with her racist relatives and the privilege enjoyed by whites, when she first realizes the extent of American racism. This is the true story here.