Destruction was inevitable. The brooding hatred and disunity in the air tasted sour. It was only a matter of time before the disagreements evolved into war, hatred into evil, affecting not only individual people, but the entire society that they have built themselves. The lack of acceptance is the root cause of this situation; it spills aggressiveness and the desire to fight into the boiling cauldron of a crumbling society. Diane Glancy is one of the two authors who emphasizes the importance of acceptance to a society in her poem “Without Title”, sharing her personal experience and addressing the struggle her father has to go through from the absence of his culture in his new life. Lisa Gossels is a director who wishes to show how opposing
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The group of girls that the documentary focuses on end up getting used to living with themselves to a point where they can tolerate each other, the only exception being them arguing and defending their countries at war. However, the girls eventually found a way to accept that they all have reasons behind their beliefs and respect them enough to decide that they can become friends. In fact, one scene shows a girl named Inas admitting “When I see the Jewish girls as individuals, I love them and all of them are my friends...” (Gossels). This proves that people from warring countries still have the chance to find common ground and live together instead of constantly fighting and killing members of both their groups. By all means, the girls are a primary example of how it is possible to build a bridge between contrasting groups of people, which not only ends wars, but creates a suitable living environment for the groups to flourish in together. Without learning to accept people from different backgrounds and coming together to form a bond, societies like Israel and Palestine will never stop tearing one another down, and eventually their hatred will be the cause of their downfall as they kill more innocent people. As well as “My So-Called Enemy”, killing innocent people in a society is not very rare when it comes to Shirley Jackson’s “The
The group of girls that the documentary focuses on end up getting used to living with themselves to a point where they can tolerate each other, the only exception being them arguing and defending their countries at war. However, the girls eventually found a way to accept that they all have reasons behind their beliefs and respect them enough to decide that they can become friends. In fact, one scene shows a girl named Inas admitting “When I see the Jewish girls as individuals, I love them and all of them are my friends...” (Gossels). This proves that people from warring countries still have the chance to find common ground and live together instead of constantly fighting and killing members of both their groups. By all means, the girls are a primary example of how it is possible to build a bridge between contrasting groups of people, which not only ends wars, but creates a suitable living environment for the groups to flourish in together. Without learning to accept people from different backgrounds and coming together to form a bond, societies like Israel and Palestine will never stop tearing one another down, and eventually their hatred will be the cause of their downfall as they kill more innocent people. As well as “My So-Called Enemy”, killing innocent people in a society is not very rare when it comes to Shirley Jackson’s “The