Wow!! This book completly grabbed me from the moment I first picked it up. Noughts and Crosses inspired me in so many
different
ways and opened my eyes to the "real" brutallness that this world was and can still be sometimes. Racism really catches my eye and i find it intriguing how people can treat another so differently just because of their skin colour. The
attitudes of the both the Noughts and the Crosses (white and black people) utterly disgusted me. Blackman wrote with such skill that captured the bitterness and evil of racism. The attitudes of the characters amazed me and touched a spot in my heart as I and many others became so involved in the story and felt almost as though we were in the thick of it all - it was so real. As a white person my self I enjoyed the white people being seen as the lower ones, as I'm sick of white people always being portrayed as better and more important. This was a smart move by Blackman to write in a slightly
different ways, but I think to all readers it made people realise how unnacceptable racism is and how much it can affect someones life. We are so lucky to live in a world where racism is not as much of an issue as it was, although it shouldn't be around at all.