This book showed me/I learned from this story (ONE CRAZY SUMMER) PLZ HELP I GIVE YHU BRAINLIST PL

One Crazy Summer has a couple important themes that the author wants to get to the reader, The first one is race. after Delphine's mom gets arrested, she realizes that the civil rights movement really matters and starts getting deeply into it. Long story short, the author wants people to have racial equality and shes addressing the issue that not everyone is treated fairly because of their race. Of course this book takes place in the 1960s so this was a very important issue at the time. It also shows that Delphine didn't pay attention to the importance of racism until it was too late.  Also friendship. Delphine really gets into the amount of love and positive emotions that she got from the support from her friends, especially when she at the center. They all share her struggles of being treated differently because they have a different skin color. Whats interesting is that Cecile might not be much of a mother, but Cecile is the most important friend Delphine makes.  "This book shows that friendship can be a political act. " - shmoop. Its a pretty complex thought. Delphine is also so focused on racial prejudices against her that she fails to notice her own stereotypes and assumptions about people all around her. This tells us that we are often hypocritical because we fail to notice our own flaws while we judge others harshly. It tells the reader that the stereotypes we have are learned over time, even when we realize they are bad and people hate them. Also, I'm an idiot so you should just go search up some summaries and analysis online for better insight.  

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

this quote could be referring to the death penalty. it's questioning the morality of sentencing murderers to death as a punishment, because it seems hypocritical. this quote seems to be arguing for non-lethal punishment for killers.