Middle school has begun, excitement filled my lungs so much that I could taste it. I gulped it down though, not wanting the other children to see me so excited. Had been taunted earlier by a girl in my first period for looking to excite to be at school. Little did I know these would be the most hellish three years of my entire existence? In Marge Piercy’s poem, “Barbie Doll”, we witness a girl who is going through puberty, but she grows up a bit different from the other girls and gets teased by her fellow peers. Much like the speaker of the poem I too went through a rough stage in life around puberty that usually falls around middle school. I was teased a great deal in middle school and it ended up changing my life forever. I remember the
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The poem begins by stating that a girl just like any other is born just like any other with dolls, lipstick and cooking equipment. She already from birth she is molded into stereotypical female bound by society. “Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said/ you have a big fat nose and fat legs.” (Lines 5 & 6). First of all as a girl we are bombarded with these images of models in magazines, which we as women are supposed to look like. So if you don’t look like the women in these magazines you are already labeled as different. I too was bullied almost this same way, it hurt when my peers would say things like this and it made eventually depressed. The poem goes on to explain what a bright future this girl by saying “she was healthy, tested intelligent,”(7). But all “everyone saw [was] a fat nose on thick legs.”(11). This line is one of the ones that made me the angriest simply because although she was healthy and intelligent all people saw was her nose and legs. Because nowadays people are blind to what bullying really does to a person, it causes suicide and depression. I dealt with depression all throughout middle school; if it was not for my love for books and English I …show more content…
We are presented with images and toys from young ages that are vastly different from ourselves. The problem is this, even from a young age we are expected to play these roles and to be beautiful. Not everyone is the same nor should they be expected to be. Everyone all over have experienced some sort of bullying in their life that has impacted them negatively for maybe months or years. Because of their nose, feet, legs, arms, face, and hands, this judgment may never stop. Bullying may never cease in schools, it is sad but true. But us as individuals can make a stand just by being kinder to one another. I work at a restaurant called eggs ‘n’ things and I am extremely kind to everyone simply because if someone had shown me a bit of kindness just once. I wouldn’t have been so deeply affected by
The poem begins by stating that a girl just like any other is born just like any other with dolls, lipstick and cooking equipment. She already from birth she is molded into stereotypical female bound by society. “Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said/ you have a big fat nose and fat legs.” (Lines 5 & 6). First of all as a girl we are bombarded with these images of models in magazines, which we as women are supposed to look like. So if you don’t look like the women in these magazines you are already labeled as different. I too was bullied almost this same way, it hurt when my peers would say things like this and it made eventually depressed. The poem goes on to explain what a bright future this girl by saying “she was healthy, tested intelligent,”(7). But all “everyone saw [was] a fat nose on thick legs.”(11). This line is one of the ones that made me the angriest simply because although she was healthy and intelligent all people saw was her nose and legs. Because nowadays people are blind to what bullying really does to a person, it causes suicide and depression. I dealt with depression all throughout middle school; if it was not for my love for books and English I …show more content…
We are presented with images and toys from young ages that are vastly different from ourselves. The problem is this, even from a young age we are expected to play these roles and to be beautiful. Not everyone is the same nor should they be expected to be. Everyone all over have experienced some sort of bullying in their life that has impacted them negatively for maybe months or years. Because of their nose, feet, legs, arms, face, and hands, this judgment may never stop. Bullying may never cease in schools, it is sad but true. But us as individuals can make a stand just by being kinder to one another. I work at a restaurant called eggs ‘n’ things and I am extremely kind to everyone simply because if someone had shown me a bit of kindness just once. I wouldn’t have been so deeply affected by