The Memory Keeper's Daughter Section 2 #4

In the book The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, we see equality as a theme. Throughout the course of the novel, Caroline treats Phoebe as a completely "normal" child. At the beginning of the novel, David discriminates against his own daughter by trying to put her in a home because of her disabilities. At the beginning of Phoebe's life, Caroline begins fighting for her. In this section of the novel, Caroline again fights for the rights of the physically and emotionally disabled. When Phoebe arrives at the age that she should be going to school, Caroline protests that Phoebe should be able to public school. Caroline not only fights for the rights for Phoebe, but for all those who are mentally for physically disabled. She joins the "Upside Down Society" and begins petitioning. "Today the Upside Down Society, over 500 members strong, would ask the school board to include their children in public schools" (Edwards, 159). She preaches that it is discrimination to not allow these children into the public schools. She shows that these children are the same as those who are already in the school.