Dead until Dark by Charlaine Harris

This is the story of the cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse. Her ability to read minds makes her a kind of outsider in the small town of Bon Tomps. Many people in the town think she’s weird and her childhood was tough due to her disability to control her mind reading. But one day her life change drastically, when she starts a romance with Bill. Bill is a vampire and he’s decided to mainstream with the human kind now when the vampires have come out of the coffin. The society has acknowledged their existence, but far from all has accepted them.

Her decision to get involved with a vampire isn’t accepted by everyone. Many people are afraid of things that’re different from what they’re used to. To acknowledge and accept someone that doesn’t share the same life values, political opinion nor has the same skin color should not be a difficult decision, but in many cases there is. Bullying, racism and even war are all examples of a disability to acknowledge and accept. In many cases, these actions can come from a lack of knowledge or a reluctance to understand why the other part is different.

Bullying among children happens in every school today. But why do children bully? As I mentioned earlier, knowledge is one out of many reasons. The bully wants to ensure his or her position in the group and often do this by deliberately and repeatedly hurt someone else. This hurting mustn’t be physical and I think that the physiological bullying is much more common. It's also much harder to detect. Sookie suffered this throughout her childhood. She was different and the other kids didn’t know how to handle it.          

Throughout the book there are people who are unwilling to let the vampires get the same civil rights. People judge the whole vampire kind out of some particular vampire’s actions. It’s hard for them who’re willing to mainstream and live an ordinary life. This behavior can be compared with the racism that sadly is well spread in the society today. To categorize people due to their skin color and rank them is all wrong. There is no scientific evidence saying that our intellect or mental state depends on the color of our skin. Our personality is formed due to our cultural surroundings, things we experience and people we meet.

To judge a person you haven’t met or even heard of is absurd. People should have a chance to give an impression based on their own personality, not by what another person has done or believe in.