An Analysis Of Don T Judge A Book By It's Cover

To begin, for a considerable amount of time I had been considering writing a short memoir about my identity of a member of the gothic subculture, and my experience of being what is typically referred to as a “black sheep”. When I envisioned this piece, I had an idea of an article in a magazine that uses a narrative style in order to get the message of “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” across to the audience that is reading the piece. For a magazine article like I pictured this short narrative would be, it would work in my favor to make my piece accessible to a large audience, that would, hopefully, since they took the time to read the piece, be open minded towards accepting new and divergent types of people. It is for this particular reason that I use slang such as the shortened term “goth” in my paper, so that I can avoid making the piece too technical. …show more content…
This idea of “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is a the most consequential commonplace that I require my audience to be aware of. This commonplace connects to the commonplace “it is what is on the inside that matters” that I directly invoke in the last paragraph of my writing. I require my audience to acknowledge the commonplaces because it works to accomplish the overall point of my article, and that is to work past the initial shock that people like me, who are members of alternative subcultures, create in people. In order for the audience to do this, it is easier if they have some prior idea that personality is more important than