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High School belles-lettres The story Brownies by ZZ Packer could be looked at as a run low of literature from certain views, but in the spirit of Prose, the rootage of I Know Why the Caged Bird Can non Read, I do non believe that this story would be looked at as a work of literature. This story does not seem very uplifting as Prose would pauperism it to be for a high school contributor. Although it is a very enkindle story and it employs many important messages about our society and culture, it does not hold up to Proses standards as a work of literature.Prose believes that we have rush along to sacrifice complexity for diversity. (Prose, 76) This is exactly why I do not think that Prose would choose this story as a something she would want bookmans to read. The reader is being squandered on regimens of trash and semi-trash, taught for reasons that have nothing to do with how well the book is written. (Prose, 76) Prose often talks about how stories that are chos en for our societys high school curriculum are not complicated enough. The stories read by students are easy to read, and demand very little supposition from the reader. Prose uses words such as transformative, complex, powerful, and profound for the books she believes should be used. These words do not describe the story Brownies by ZZ Packer.Although thither are many accurate similes and decently used language in the story Brownies, the overall point of the story seems very simple for a high school student to pick up on. I do not think it would engender a feeling of deep thought for students, as Prose would want. The story Brownies seems like it would be easy to analyze. It seems like more of the type of story that would evoke more of a response, which in my opinion would not be greatly valued by Prose. She seems like she would be more interested in having a high school student have to work to analyze a story, than respond about how they snarl about a certain piece of writing. Racism is a sloshed message in the story Brownies. There are two troop of brownies camping in the same area. One of the troops is black girls, and the other(a) is all white girls.