A Glimpse Of Reality

Making the Unfamiliar Familiar

“A Glimpse of Reality” is a part of the effort to achieve true democracy in a society that has ignored minorities, in this case, the homosexual population, under the utilitarian political system. The dialogue is primarily an article that tackles the prejudice on the homogenous population. By doing so, the writer of the article makes sense of the unfamiliar in an attempt to let the public first acknowledge a problem.

“He’s queer,” Sam describes his homosexual roommate with disgust and anger. The author of the article creates a fictional character that represents the general population. Through this character, the author portrays the public’s lack of awareness regarding the severity of the existing discrimination. The dialogue portrays a conversation where Steve is correcting Sam’s wrong viewpoint on a homosexual friend. Although this may seem simple, Steve faces difficulty in persuading Sam due to Sam’s ignorance and strong skepticism towards the homosexual population. The response to the persuasion is “I’ve never

This is because the take home message of the response, the importance of acknowledging a problem by making sense of the unfamiliar to resolve a problem, is not restricted to the topic of homosexulaism. The take home message therefore also contains two strong messages to the students in this college. It first informs the student activists the importance of acknowledging a problem before trying to solve it. Most importantly, it makes all of us to think about the potential flaws in our own beliefs and how we may unintentionally cause harm to others without acknowledging the existence of a problem as a result. Therefore, all of us as students should learn from the past failures and be responsible to open ourselves to new viewpoints in order to clearly identify what problems our society posses and resolve