Stereotypes In Society

Society has a variety of different stereotypes which can positively or negatively affect people. Everyone has different viewpoints on society’s stereotypes. Authors use their writing to reveal these stereotypes. Hurston uses extended metaphors in “How it Feels to be Colored Me” and in Bradbury’s “The Veldt” symbolism is used to prove that society forces their own stereotypes to alter perspectives. Hurston's extended metaphors in “How it Feels to be Colored Me” emphasizes the effect of society on one’s perspective. The different societies Hurton experiences changes her perspectives. After Hurton experiences the two different societies of Eatonville and Jacksonville she feels, “like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against …show more content…
This reflection of society materialized after Hurston experienced the stereotypical white society. In addition Hurston adds, “In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the humble it held-so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly,”(Hurston 4). Comparing society once again Hurston realizes the “bags”, or people can be emptied and refilled without changing the content. The content of the bags represent the person’s imagination and thinking. By comparing the bags and content to people and their thinking Hurston concludes people are the same on the inside, despite different exterior appearances. The extended metaphors in “How it feels to be Colored Me” demonstrate the change of perspectives, due to stereotypical societies, following Hurston’s encounter with the different white society of Jacksonville.
Symbolism in Bradbury’s “The Veldt” demonstrates different affected perspectives in the short story. The importance of technology in society created controversy for the Hadley’s, “They stood on the thatched floor of