“The individual” informs the way one views others and the world. In the personal essay “us and Them” by David Sedaris “Here is the boy sitting on a bed, his mouth smeared with chocolate”(87). He doesn't want Tomkey kids to have any candy because they went to the boat house for halloween instead of Trick or Treating. Plus his mother was going to give them his candy that he worked so hard for it, in the end he stuffed his mouth with the candy and he ended up being allergic to it. However parents informs the way one views views others and the world. In the novel excerpt “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan , Suyaun says “ Of course, you can be a prodigy”(18). Suyaun says she can be anything she can be anything! She was making her go through all
