Lior's Magic Glasses Analysis

When I was six years old, I read Lior’s Magic Glasses by Shula Modan, a children’s story about a boy who sees two pairs of glasses at the store: a pink pair and a black pair. When he puts on the black pair, he sees the world negatively. Yet with the pink pair, the world is filled with joy. However, when the worker at the store tells the boy that “not everything is black or pink, there are a lot of colors in between”, the boy realizes that he can’t wear the pink glasses all the time and needs to face reality. Nevertheless, with reality, not everything is hopeless, and there is often some color hidden. I had a similar experience to that of the boy in the story while volunteering at the Sacred Heart Toy Distribution event.
At the event, a woman handed me a red Santa hat and a large bag and ushered me with the rest of …show more content…
She made me feel like I had a voice, and I felt like I was wearing the pink glasses from the story every time I was with her. She was available at all times, from brunch to lunch to empty periods, and students would always have the nicest comments about her. One day, a group of students had questions about an assignments after school, and she decided to cancel an important doctor’s appointment she had in order to make sure every student there received help. With this one action, this teacher influenced me to not only want to help others myself whenever I can, but to also follow her footsteps in becoming a teacher myself. I realized, once again, that I must face reality and struggling, such as of the students’, with black glasses, but I can also use that to help and make others see the pink. In fifth grade I had a teacher who mocked my accent in front of the class and made me ashamed to talk. I want to help children by not being that kind of teacher; I want to become the type of teacher who inspires others, and makes students excited to come to school and