To have complete and thorough knowledge of who someone truly is, is quite similar to being present in their mind at all times, experiencing and comprehending every passing thought which they have. Digging through the masses of thoughts which are embedded within the layers in their brain. Having through knowledge of someone means to know their deepest and innermost thoughts at all times. Knowing someone to the fullest extent is quite comparable to understanding their thoughts and emotions which they may not necessarily choose to voluntarily share with others. The short story Seventh Grade portrayed the struggle of thinking that you truly do know someone to the greatest level. This short story depicted the experiences of Victor, a young adolescent …show more content…
Although we may not realize it, we often times have the sincere belief that we truly do know someone, simply by looking at them. By looking at them, and viewing their external attributes, such as the way that they dress and look, we assume that we know who they really are. However, truly knowing someone goes beyond what they look like on the outside. Victor’s instant judging of Teresa is portrayed when he communicates to the reader, “She was cute. And good at math too” (Soto 1). Victor genuinely thinks that he knows Teresa, and therefore likes her. However, he does not really know who she is as a person. He simply thinks that he knows who she is based off of observing the way she looks and acts. By making the common mistake of judging one’s external attributes, we automatically make the assumption that we know who they are. This common misconception causes for people to no longer try to get to know someone better, because they feel as if they already accurately know who they are. Victor’s judging of Teresa lead him to falsely believe that he knew her and loved her. Due to this, he no longer feels the need to get to sincerely know who she is, because he feels as if her external features define her, and give him an authentic view of who she is. Although we may not realize it, as humans, we often times make assumptions and judge others by the …show more content…
In today’s society, simply meeting someone and getting to know their name, is enough for us to declare that we know them. Having knowledge of who someone is goes beyond basic communication with that person. Having knowledge about someone is about having authentic information and facts about their traits, along with being familiar with all parts of their personality. The task of truly knowing someone is indeed one that most are not able to achieve. Not only do we have to deeply communicate genuine information with others, but we also have to be willing to go beyond the looks to know someone in great depth. However, this being said, knowing someone to the fullest extent may be beyond our capability. After all having knowledge about somone is not necessarily possible. In certain cases, aspects of one’s true character may never be revealed to someone sels, limiting how well we can really know them. At times, they may not feel the need to show certain parts of who they are if they are never put into that situation. To thoroughly and concisely know someone, is beyond one's’ true control. However, we do have the capability to make the joint effort to try to get to know someone else better by deeply choosing to communicate our thoughts and feelings with them them, which at times, we may decide to shield from
People always say never judged a person by their cover, yet some of us still do it without even trying sometimes. I have done this on multiple occasions without really trying to judge a person. I once had an experience where I was trying out for a new club team and I saw this girl who looked really mean and scary because of the expression on her face. I always thought if I ever talk to her she would be mean, but one practice we started to talk and she wasn’t at all the person I thought she ways. It turns out that she is a nice person who just takes soccer very seriously. This just shows that we can have a certain opinion on someone by their looks, but they may be completely opposite from the way they appear.There’s this book call “Freak the Mighty” which has a good way of showing the theme of not judging a person
In the story,” Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto, Victor learns that his embarrassing moments lead to bad things. In paragraph number 18 and 19 it states that Teresa, the girl victor likes, smiles at him and says hi and victor says yeah that’s me back to her.This proves of how Victor got embarrassed because he should of said something different back like hi or hey.This is why he embarrassed himself in front of Teresa.In the paragraphs 36 through 60, Victor embarrasses himself by trying to speak french to empress Teresa but it sounds like he is speaking gibberish.This shows that he is embarrassing himself by acting like he can speak french, but only the teacher knows that isn’t real french. Victor now knows that he shouldn’t raise his hand and tries
It is impossible to understand the innermost and ever complex thoughts, feelings, hopes, and reflections of others. To understand is to grasp the strife and pleasure of each moment’s depth through a set lens. Confined by my own lens, I have been and will always be the main character of my own book. Though I can never know another human’s cognitive glances, I can at least be mindful of the infinite complexity and reasoning of each human. Even the most empathetic cannot understand exactly how Claude Monet felt for Camille, how Beethoven felt for “Elise”, or how
In 2009 Chimamanda Adichie gave a TED talk about the ‘danger of a single story’. A single story meaning, one thought or one example of a person becoming what we think about all people that fit that description, a stereotype if you will. In today’s America, I believe that we have all felt the wave of stereotypical views at some point or another. Adichie gives many relatable examples throughout her life of how she has been affected by the single story. Her story brings about an issue that all humans, from every inch of the earth, have come to understand on some level. A young child reading only foreign books, a domestic helper that she only perceived as poor. Her college roommates single story about Africans and her own formation of a single
Bonvillian, John. "First Impressions." Psychology 101. Class Lecture. Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. October 1999.
Many people assume they know people, in reality no one can really know a person fully. There are always secrets, emotions, and thoughts people keep to themselves. These internal secrets make it difficult to understand each human individually. My job is to make sure by the end of this essay, you know Kylia Morrison better than you did when she first walked through the classroom door Monday morning.
This was shown through Victor’s creation, the Creature in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Conclusions about a person should not be based on the physical appearance because they can turn out to be a totally different person then what their outer image shows. Society’s prejudice can be avoided if people stand out and get to know each other before creating an opinion about their character without
Ever school carries its legends, secrets, and stories, many which are overseen by the curriculum. In Liberty Elementary, there lies ones secret that tends to stir the minds of the students every so often that Halloween approaches, and the coaches are given the opportunity to scare the children. According to Coach Espinoza, the story ties way back to the 1900’s when the city was in its midst expanding into further other unsettled territory.
As a rule, recognize the true value and the capacity of a person only for their skills. Often we do not recognize the prejudices we possess, and we do not want to admit that we judge different a person by their appearance. Th...
It was picture day at Oak Grove East, and the third grade pictures were after lunch. Whoever thought that it would be okay to let third graders go out to recess and then come in for pictures after they’re all sweaty is just a complete idiot, but the pictures were after lunch. During recess, a couple of us enjoyed to play cops and robbers. That certain day, I was a cop. Zach Otten was a robber. I was chasing him to the left of the playground by the basketball hoop. When we were in third grade there was a lot of loose gravel by the basketball hoop closest to the playground.
One can really get to know a person; such as, for getting a relationship with a special someone. Anybody can get to know anybody. People can easily know what someone like or dislikes, in return an individual can use it to their advantage. In theory, it should help get their special someone, they keep thinking about.
It was about one-thirty in the morning in the town of Homestead Michigan. The almost florescent light of the moon bouncing off the fresh puddles that covered the ground. The grass and trees were covered in a thin layer of water causing every little beam of light to reflect back up. Anyone who may have been outside at this time would have without double, smelled the mix of fresh dirt and night crawlers. As the moonlight started to fade away through the cloud cover, three buses made there way through the streets and parked in front of HHS, the local high school.
There was a girl named Kandy, she was 15 years old. Her life was extremely boring, all she ever did was go to school, go on her computer, eat and sleep. She spent all summer on her computer. She was really good with HTML and spent her free time making web sites. Kandy didn't have many friends and rarely talked to guys because she was shy and unconfident about her looks. That's why she went into chat rooms. She made a web site with pictures of herself on it and told people in chat rooms to go there. A lot of people would tell her how pretty she was and some would say she was ugly. That made her feel awful. When anyone would say anything nice to her, she wouldn't believe them and think that they were just making fun of her. She only had one real friend that she could talk to, her name was Ang.
“This is the last time,” the girl said as she took her index fingers and forced them down her throat, and watched as the remains of her dinner erupted out of her body. The girl got up and cringed as she saw the remains of her Caesar salad spun around the porcelain and silently slipped away.
The traditional short story is a genre of a prose. It is a fiction work that presents a world in the moment of an unexpected change. The traditional short story obeys some rules, such as the unexpected change and major events with detail. The modern short story is a revolution which is based on the traditional short story. In other words, if the traditional short story is in the first floor, the modern short story is in the second floor. Therefore, the modern short story still obeys some rules that the traditional short story obeys, and breaks some rules that the traditional short story obeys. One rule that the modern short story still uses is the unexpected change. The rules broken by the modern short story are that the major events are not detailed, and that the border between the real world and the fiction world. This paper first talks about the unexcepted change and uses the examples of “Eveline” and “The Open Window.” Then, this paper talks about major events with detail, and uses the examples of “Lottery,” “The Open Window” and “Hills Like White Elephants.” Finally, this paper talks about the meta-literary and the border between the real world and the fiction