My So-Called Enemy: An Analysis

“We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves”, once said Barbara Jordan. Barbara Jordan was a leader in the civil rights movement and do to her experiences she has developed this opinion. During her time, African-Americans were fighting to have rights and be treated as people. Therefore, her opinion that everyone should be accepted has definitely been influenced by how she was treated and how throughout her life she had to fight for the right to be seen as a person, even if she was different than what the majority believed to be “normal”. Purposefully, within the first collection there were stories that were meant to show how accepting people are, and whether or not we, as a society, should be accepting …show more content…
In, My So-Called Enemy, six girls were taken to America to discuss the Palestinian Israeli conflict. Notably, a young girl talks about how when she sees the girls as individuals she loves and cares for them, but when she sees them as Jewish girls she doesn’t know how to feel about them. These girls learn that they have to see people as individuals and not as where they came from. Additionally, another girl talks about life when they go back to where they came from. They can’t stay friends because of how people will see the relationship, because of how they will look in public. No one will accept that the girls can be friends despite their differences. Even if they had learned to love and understand each other 's struggles, other people will not understand and see the girls as traitors and foolish. Furthermore, a girl talks about how she will have to go back and be a soldier for a year. She worries how the other girls will feel when they have to see her in a uniform, forced to fight for something that will keep them apart. When the time comes, it is difficult for them to look at each other, knowing that they have to go back to this is difficult for them to think about. All and all, these learned to understand and accept each other, they were able to work through the problems they had because they were open and