Crossing Cultures
In Chris Cleave’s Little Bee, Little Bee is faced with major culture differences. Little Bee is from a small village in Nigeria. Her village was destroyed and she makes her way to England aboard a ship. Upon getting to London, she finds that there are mostly white people there. She has proper English that helps her fit in, but she still gets judged based on how she looks. When she first makes her way through London, she feels so out of place in the society and that nobody wants her there. I felt a similar experience when I went on my first mission trip. It was my freshman year in junior high school. My friends and I wanted to go on the upcoming mission trip through my church to Baltimore, Maryland. This was a big step