What, Of This Goldfish, Do You Wish, By Lisa Gossels

What kind of person are you? Maybe you are the nice girl everyone loves, or maybe you are the mean girl, or you even might be the person who no one ever talks to? The thing is it does not matter who you are, what matters is the quote from Barbara Jordan “We as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.”. The quote goes with three stories; “What, of This Goldfish, Do You Wish” by Etgar Keret, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and “My So-Called Enemy” by Lisa Gossels.
In “What, of This Goldfish, Do You Wish” by Etgar Keret the story begins with a man making a documentary named Yonatan knocks on Sergei’s door. When Sergei answers the door the man asks him “That if he had a magic goldfish that would grant

you three wishes what would you wish.” the story then says “Sergei tells the boy, tells him in what he thinks is a straightforward manner, that he doesn’t want it.” this sounds suspicious when you first read this however, you will find out that Sergei has a magic goldfish that would grant him three wishes. Then, if you keep reading on then you will find out that all he really wanted was not to be alone, which takes us back to the quote “We as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.”. So when Sergei left his hometown and moved far away, he did not know anyone and did not accept anyone different so he was alone. So when he found the magic goldfish Sergei tried to keep it to himself so he was not alone and he did that by not making his last wish. That's why when you finish the story and find out that he used his last wish to save the guy who knocked on his door. So when the guy came back to ask Sergei the question, however, “Sergei only asked for a friend so he wouldn't be alone.”
Now, the next story that goes with the quote “We as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” is called “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson there's a part in there that says “that over in the north village they’re talking about giving up the lottery.” which when you first read that you might think why in the world would people give up the chance of getting money, however, when you keep reading you find out that the lottery is not all that you think it is.

When you keep reading you find this, "Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they will be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work anymore, lives that way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon." and that goes with our quote “We as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” The people in the village that are saying that are making it sound like they don’t like the people in the other village because they are thinking they are giving up the lottery. Which is kind of mean for the reason that it does not matter what you do, what matters is that we are all human on the inside and outside. Then, after you finish the story you read this "It isn't fair," she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head...It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.” so that means the lottery is actually a sacrifice which is very dark and

demented. So, it's no surprise her story "The Lottery" when she published it in a newspaper called The New Yorker in 1948, they got rid of it because the people who read the story sent hundreds of letters expressing their feelings over the tale because how dark it was.
“My So-Called Enemy” by Lisa Gossels is the last story that goes with the quote “We as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” by Barbara Jordan, the reason is you have a conflict between the people in Israel.

Six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls Adi, Hanin, Gal, Inas, Rawan, and Rezan become committed to justice and mutual understanding of peace. All the girls are very different from each other like they may all have different ideas about each other however, they all have one thing in common which is they are all human no matter what. When you watch just the beginning of the trailer you hear that “Conflict between Israel the Jews and Palestinians and neither side will cease fire on each other” and when they are saying this you have a very peaceful sunrise to try and soften the mood up. Then, when you keep watching, the trailer goes back seven years earlier and that is when the teenage girls come in. You first hear that some of the girls do not quite get along however they all love each other as friends even though one of the girls blames that the other girl's people killed her father. Finally, in the end of the trailer, all of the girls looked pasted who their people were and looked only at what is on the inside, which of course brings us back to the quote “We as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” For the reason that all the girls looked beyond the past and looked into their own

hearts.
So in conclusion, all three stories; “What, of This Goldfish, Do You Wish” by Etgar Keret, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and “My So-Called Enemy” by Lisa Gossels all connect back to the quote by Barbara Jordan “We as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” Because it does not matter if you're new, or if you're weird, or even creepy, all that matter is what is on in the inside.