In society there are various ranks of people whom devote and dedicate their lives into being exactly how others within the society picture the elite upper class. One will change his or her looks, viewpoints, and/or social class in order to fit in the ranking of being accepted. The urge to feel accepted is overcoming the society as a whole. This social issue is found in various ages and nationalities; no one person can be set aside from never having the want or feeling of wanting to be accepted. Ultimately, one just wants to fit in. Social rejection can accumulate to things that are indeed very serious. Being simply rejected, from a job or even just from a group of people sitting at a lunch table, can lead to things furthermore serious than
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Events reoccur, tragedies continue to happen, and the world consumes itself into an eradication of the human’s society. A lot of writers seem to know what is going on, but still, things are sugar coated into a lesser meaning where the message is still not getting across. In the poem entitled ‘The History Teacher’ by Billy Collins, the down play of the message is portrayed in his writing. Opening up with, “Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters.” and ending it with “The children would leave his classroom for the playground to torment the weak and the smart, mussing up their hair and breaking their glasses…”(Collins) Collins explains that the teacher did say the horrific events that occurred in our history, but that did not change anything because the message was not across. Society still had ahold of our culture and influences it to repeat history. As Mark Twain said, “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Meaning, yes, the civil war will not happen again; but, there are violent protest still happening that gets worst and worst each time over the same issues that have been issues for …show more content…
Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at her out of clean comfort…To eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Love Mary Jane.
Be Mary Jane” (Morrison, 50). Taking her desperation to another level, Peecola hopes that if she eats enough of the Mary Jane candy, then possibly she could turn into Mary Jane. Mary Jane is also a face of beauty. There is no white beauty and black beauty, white is the only way to become beautiful, so she wishes not for beauty, but for whiteness.
Peecola faces constant criticism: the bullying that occurs at school and her family issues, her parents fighting verbally and physically, leads Pecola to look for an outlet away from her misery by wishing about becoming more beautiful. Pecola begins to believe that if she could become beautiful, her life would automatically get better and the problems she faces will magically disappear. This delusion turns out to mentally destroy Pecola throughout the novel. Taking over her whole life and eventually, her
Events reoccur, tragedies continue to happen, and the world consumes itself into an eradication of the human’s society. A lot of writers seem to know what is going on, but still, things are sugar coated into a lesser meaning where the message is still not getting across. In the poem entitled ‘The History Teacher’ by Billy Collins, the down play of the message is portrayed in his writing. Opening up with, “Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters.” and ending it with “The children would leave his classroom for the playground to torment the weak and the smart, mussing up their hair and breaking their glasses…”(Collins) Collins explains that the teacher did say the horrific events that occurred in our history, but that did not change anything because the message was not across. Society still had ahold of our culture and influences it to repeat history. As Mark Twain said, “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Meaning, yes, the civil war will not happen again; but, there are violent protest still happening that gets worst and worst each time over the same issues that have been issues for …show more content…
Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at her out of clean comfort…To eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Love Mary Jane.
Be Mary Jane” (Morrison, 50). Taking her desperation to another level, Peecola hopes that if she eats enough of the Mary Jane candy, then possibly she could turn into Mary Jane. Mary Jane is also a face of beauty. There is no white beauty and black beauty, white is the only way to become beautiful, so she wishes not for beauty, but for whiteness.
Peecola faces constant criticism: the bullying that occurs at school and her family issues, her parents fighting verbally and physically, leads Pecola to look for an outlet away from her misery by wishing about becoming more beautiful. Pecola begins to believe that if she could become beautiful, her life would automatically get better and the problems she faces will magically disappear. This delusion turns out to mentally destroy Pecola throughout the novel. Taking over her whole life and eventually, her