Essay Comparing On Being Seventeen Bright And Unable To Read

Everyday people get split into different groups called “us vs. them”. These groups can be separated by the way people respond off of each other. As humans we can split the “us vs. them” groups in two categories: prideful and jealous of each other.
In the story “On Being Seventeen , Bright, and Unable to Read” the main character talks about people excluding him from the group. Later on in the story he does that when he goes to a camp with problems of dyslexia like his. He is not really jealous of these people, but prideful in himself. One thing the boy does not want is to get seen by someone from his regular school as he rides the bus to go to special education school. During that time, he was calling the other kids at the special education school retarded or disturbed kids. He was becoming prideful of himself and doing what the other kids did to him at his old school.
Also, in the “Good Samaritan” the priest and Levite walked by and did nothing to help the man who had just been robbed. They had no want or need to help this man, because they were too prideful of themselves. Their self-esteem was the only thing in life …show more content…
They were angry with her because she told them she had seen and felt the sun on her life on earth. They have never been in contact with the sun before and they thought she was telling lies and her friends decided to lock her in a closet to be mean to her. When they all felt the sun at last and enjoyed the warmth they forgot all about her until the rain began again. The way the story ends is that they realize that she is still in the closet and they took away from Margot the one chance to see and feel what she was missing the last few years. The impression is they were not angry anymore and realize why she was acting the way she did, but leaving it to the reader to feel the emotion that was felt both on Margot's side and the children's