The Real You
In this world everyone is searching for their identity. Some find their identity faster than others. In these two texts the main characters are having similar situations. They aren’t accepted the way they are right away, they are made fun of for being different. In Janet Finch White Oleander and Shane Koyczan’s “To This Day… for the Bullied and Beautiful” have a similar theme of needing to overcome adversity to find oneself. In White Oleander there is Astrid and her mother is living this not so everyday life. Her mother gets her heart broken and she turned into a different person. Things started getting more and more intense and her mother ends up in prison and Astrid is left to foster care. For Astrid, this may seem bad but she realizes that her mother was holding her …show more content…
In these foster homes she starts to learn more and more about herself. Astrid states “But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been are in the greatest danger”(Finch). She is saying that people who are fake and lie are setting themselves up for something bad. In the book, Astrid goes to the foster homes and some treat her as if she is the maid and not one of their children. So Astrid in this process sees how these foster parents treat her and how they treat other people. Every foster home she is at she reflects back on herself and how she is as a person. This related to the TED Talk “To this day… for the Bullied and Beautiful” because the boy is being described is a teenage boy whose dreams are being dismissed by other people. So one day he let someone copy his homework, “I gave him all the wrong answers… he got back his paper and expected a near perfect score. He looked across the room at me and help up a zero” (Koyczan). If you cheat to get the right answer that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get the right answers because
In this world everyone is searching for their identity. Some find their identity faster than others. In these two texts the main characters are having similar situations. They aren’t accepted the way they are right away, they are made fun of for being different. In Janet Finch White Oleander and Shane Koyczan’s “To This Day… for the Bullied and Beautiful” have a similar theme of needing to overcome adversity to find oneself. In White Oleander there is Astrid and her mother is living this not so everyday life. Her mother gets her heart broken and she turned into a different person. Things started getting more and more intense and her mother ends up in prison and Astrid is left to foster care. For Astrid, this may seem bad but she realizes that her mother was holding her …show more content…
In these foster homes she starts to learn more and more about herself. Astrid states “But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been are in the greatest danger”(Finch). She is saying that people who are fake and lie are setting themselves up for something bad. In the book, Astrid goes to the foster homes and some treat her as if she is the maid and not one of their children. So Astrid in this process sees how these foster parents treat her and how they treat other people. Every foster home she is at she reflects back on herself and how she is as a person. This related to the TED Talk “To this day… for the Bullied and Beautiful” because the boy is being described is a teenage boy whose dreams are being dismissed by other people. So one day he let someone copy his homework, “I gave him all the wrong answers… he got back his paper and expected a near perfect score. He looked across the room at me and help up a zero” (Koyczan). If you cheat to get the right answer that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get the right answers because