An Analysis Of First Impressions In Roseanne Hawke's 'Shahana'

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Should we always trust our first impressions of people?
We always have first impressions on people, however, as part of nature, we trust our instincts. We may not be always exactly right although we can be right. Moreover, we all still keep a little of faith in the person we stereotype. ‘Shahana’ written by Roseanne Hawke, explains Shahana’s life as a fourteen-year-old where her country is in the war along with all her family nearly dead apart from her little brother who is nine years old also looking after. She has to work business with a very nasty rich business man who she feels strange about him. Firstly, Why do we have first impressions and are they good or bad?, Secondly, Experience with stereotype and Finally, opinion on the women being kicked out of Norwood restaurant via no-tattoo policy.

Good or bad, evil or good we all stereotype it is our nature this is who we we’re brought up to be. Shahana has a lot responablites including making business with Mr Nadiar. She has been stereotyped for being an orhan, sewing in view of only men sew, and being alone looking after her brother. She stereotyped Zahid saying “
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Until next year (last year) I was also stereotyped for something I was not along with the same things that have happened with Courtney, I decided to contact her to apologise for doing these curl things to her and she said “It is okay, we all stereotype and we believe rumours, it is just our nature of humans”. Ever since then we have stayed and contact and she was one of the reasons I now go to Rowville Secondary College. I got to close with people in just mouths suddenly it comes crashing down with bullying and stereotype. Stereotype can also be formed by rumours as

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