What does "a work of literary merit" mean? In a short answer most of the time it means the book is dry and boring. I don't have time for it. No but seriously it means a group of English professors deemed the book to have been written well enough to be taught. It sometimes sucks because like I said before, Hunger Games is not considered worthy.
I read The Secret Life of Bees recently which is a work of literary merit. This novel was about a young girl named, Lily, who runs away from her abusive father with her black house maid, Rosaleen. They go to Tiburon, South Carolina to find out the truth about Lily's dead mother. She and Rosaleen are taken in by a trio of beekeeper sisters. It was a great book and I watched the movie after reading the book. The book had a lot of different themes about female power and acceptance. If you know what you're looking for, these types of books can be really interesting. The characters can have in depth personalities and backgrounds. In the novel there is a lot of symbolism towards bees and how they affect Lily's life. All of this wrapped into the novel causes it to be a work of literary merit.
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