Pretty By Katie Makkai Summary

The poem pretty shows examples, explains the effect and what everyone is taught to believe about being pretty. It shows the unrealistic standards society gives to young girls and helps us to understand that being pretty should not be all that important in our world.
When Makkai talks about money making one prettier because of brands that are thought of as musts in society, we can see that this is a very relatable idea for teenagers living in our world. Katie Makkai explains that having the right brands doesn’t actually matter and people shouldn’t have to feel as if they need to be wearing ‘Nike’ or ‘Adidas’ to show themselves in public. From this poem we should learn that wearing expensive clothes or what is in style at the moment isn’t important. People definitely need to be less materialistic and learn to focus on the more important and valuable things in life such as feeling they and everyone else belongs which will come more easy when people learn that happiness and love should always be more important than money.

When Katie Makkai says during her poem, “Haven’t a clue on where to find fulfilment or how to wear joy.” It makes anyone listening realise that in life we should focus on the more important and valuable things, not the price of things but instead on values that money can’t buy, we should focus on the well-known saying, “money doesn’t buy happiness.” In a world like today it can be very easy to forget the meaning behind this. Constantly when looking through magazines, on social media or watching celebrities or people we look up to it can be easy to have the sense that maybe money does create happiness. When we constantly see brands and understand that it is only sociably acceptable to were certain brands or styles it can be hard to find happiness. I believe that