“Senior Picture Day” is a classic story about the biases and bullying children and teenagers encounter as they contend with peer pressure and self-esteem. Kids can be cruel as they fight to feel accepted, liked, and find their self-worth. Children and teenagers who struggle with family issues or possess certain physical features may find it more difficult to fit in with the crowd and overcome peer pressures. Society often stereotypes some ethnicities as poor, less intelligent, and less appealing. People in these ethnicities may struggle with acceptance as much as someone who is overweight or appears less attractive. In my interpretation, both of the characters in the story are suffering from low self-esteem but for different reasons.
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This passage makes me question if she has a serious relationship or if she is behaving provocatively because she is seeking acceptance and to feel desirable and loved.
It is evident that her nose has been bothering her for years, squelching her self-esteem. Upon overhearing Terri make fun of it, she thinks back to her mother’s comforting words that it will become less noticeable as she ages. Further, she mentions how much she despises the fact that she inherited the awful nose from the men in her family.
Her low self esteem suffered another blow as she listened to Lightening Bolt’s reaction to Terri’s exaggerations about her features and ultimately revealing that she looks like an Indian. In order to stop other people from judging her based on her nose, the narrator decides to reshape it by squeezing it on a daily basis.
Years after the narrator ended her relationship with Terri, it is yearbook picture day. She is convinced that squeezing her nose all these years has made a huge difference; from this day forward, people won’t notice her nose; they won’t notice that she is Indian or judger her for
Throughout …show more content…
This passage makes me question if she has a serious relationship or if she is behaving provocatively because she is seeking acceptance and to feel desirable and loved.
It is evident that her nose has been bothering her for years, squelching her self-esteem. Upon overhearing Terri make fun of it, she thinks back to her mother’s comforting words that it will become less noticeable as she ages. Further, she mentions how much she despises the fact that she inherited the awful nose from the men in her family.
Her low self esteem suffered another blow as she listened to Lightening Bolt’s reaction to Terri’s exaggerations about her features and ultimately revealing that she looks like an Indian. In order to stop other people from judging her based on her nose, the narrator decides to reshape it by squeezing it on a daily basis.
Years after the narrator ended her relationship with Terri, it is yearbook picture day. She is convinced that squeezing her nose all these years has made a huge difference; from this day forward, people won’t notice her nose; they won’t notice that she is Indian or judger her for