John F. Kennedy once said, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” Our society is driven on the concept of proving who we are based on our material possessions, but ironically we just want the same thing as everyone else. We buy materialistic possessions because we want to prove that we are better than the next guy, but then we proceed to buy the same things as everyone else because we think that in order to beat them, we have to be them. “The Semplica-Girl Diaries” provides a message about how easily we feel the need to conform to society and how we let others influence our decisions. George Saunders uses the concepts of wealth and status to prove our need to conform to society and societal pressure to fit in.
“The Semplica-Girl Diaries” shows how even when a working class family was given money, which they could have used to better themselves that is not what they used it for. Instead they used it for something that was ethically and morally wrong. The father let the judgment of others influence his decision as to what to do with this money …show more content…
It was almost ironic to me that it took his child to snap him out of this “childlike” ways. The thing with children is that they usually say what they are thinking and do what they feel because they are children and do not feel the need to impress anyone. As children get older they tend to lose this because of societal pressure but Eva was able to maintain this bit of her own opinion. She was able to look past what everyone else thought and come to her own conclusion, which sometimes we forget to do. We forget to not let what others think influence you or change whom you are because we forget that when we suffer we usually deal with it in private. We only let others see the good parts because even though we are suffering we still have to maintain that
“The Semplica-Girl Diaries” shows how even when a working class family was given money, which they could have used to better themselves that is not what they used it for. Instead they used it for something that was ethically and morally wrong. The father let the judgment of others influence his decision as to what to do with this money …show more content…
It was almost ironic to me that it took his child to snap him out of this “childlike” ways. The thing with children is that they usually say what they are thinking and do what they feel because they are children and do not feel the need to impress anyone. As children get older they tend to lose this because of societal pressure but Eva was able to maintain this bit of her own opinion. She was able to look past what everyone else thought and come to her own conclusion, which sometimes we forget to do. We forget to not let what others think influence you or change whom you are because we forget that when we suffer we usually deal with it in private. We only let others see the good parts because even though we are suffering we still have to maintain that