The Girl Who Was Born With Only 2 Arms And Two Norms

Empathy is a trait that allows someone to put themselves in the perspective of another person, a trait that allows being a good friend and a true human. Sophie’s secret is life-threatening if anyone is to find out. “I simply hit out and did my furious best. My intention was to gain a few minutes for Sophie” (Wyndham, 44) When another boy, Alan, almost finds out that Sophie has an abnormality, David physically attacks him because he understands how important it is that nobody else knows. Not only does he feel so much empathy that he attacked someone but is also there for her emotionally. The empathy he feels for her brings them closer together and strengthens their friendship. When Sophie is hurt David still helps her despite her toe, even though he has learned that abnormalities make someone a monster. “ ‘You’re a good boy, David. You were very kind to Sophie.’ ” (Wyndham, 12) This is what Sophie’s mother tells David after she learns he helps her daughter when she was injured. He is there for her, he empathizes with her, even though he does not need to. The empathy David shows makes their friendship strong and friendship is what makes a person

Throughout reading the story, I felt the mother and daughter always had a problem with people accepting them for who they were. The theme about wanting people to accept you is a hard one to talk about because I feel that everyone wants to feel accepted. Some people want that to happen without them changing themselves and some people will change themselves if it means that they’re with the rest. Acceptance is what the mother really wants because she’s always had problems with men and it hurt that her husband left her for an even heavier woman. The daughter, on the other hand, still wants people to accept her, but she’s come to terms with ‘reality’ that she’ll never be the lucky one, “I’d lost this contest at birth...I’d lost the contest in borrowed shoes and an out-of-date dress...I’d lost the contest with the engagement ring on my seventeen-year-old finger” (Mauk & Metz, 2016, pg. 36).

Everyone can feel, just like you and I, but there's one important question that lingers through the air. Should we really be accepting of other people?

Fist, people overcame obstacles by not caring what other people thought or said. For example, in “A Work In Progress”, Aimee Mullins talks about a time when she bought a dress that showed her prosthetic legs and a little bit of her knee. Her father said that it was inappropriate and told her to take it off. She told him no because she thought she looked nice. This shows that Aimee Mullins did not care what her father thought. She thought she looked good enough to disobey her father, which she had never done before, to show that she did not care about what they thought. Another piece of evidence, in “Soul Surfer”, Bethany Hamilton is being crowded around photographers who want to see her arm. She did not care what they thought about it or what her family thought she should do, not show her shoulder, and Bethany did it anyways. This

Everyone has a place in the world, to think otherwise is naïve; this world is not owned by a specific race, class or gender. And yet, in a time where the world is seemingly at our fingertips we are still finding prejudices at every corner. Often, the differences of others are perceived negatively and this causes misconceptions and assumptions. If we could strip ourselves of this negativity and lose the impulsive perceptions, then we should be able to put forth greater efforts to understanding the lives of those from backgrounds which are different than our own, in doing so acceptance towards others would likely follow.

Feeling accepted is the grounding of a happy life. When people don’t feel accepted, that is when they become depressed or unhappy. Acceptance comes in many forms; something small like being accepted on to a certain table at lunch time, to something as big as being accepted in the greater community or even feeling accepted in the world. Acceptance can define who you are. If somebody isn’t accepted it can damage their souls and can throw them off the path of finding who they really are. Being accepted by others may seem the most important thing to strive towards, but the most rewarding and most damaging trait of acceptance is accepting yourself. Being comfortable with whom you are; it’s only then that others will really accept you. Acceptance can be an extremely

Have you ever felt uncomfortable? Do you feel like an outsider? Myself, being an outsider, has made me realize society does not appreciate the reasons why we are different. We need to embrace who we are and celebrate what makes us an individual. As high school and college students, many feel pressured into being accepted such as being religious and also being pressured into being in an unhealth relationship such as an age gap.

“You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”- Thích Nhat Hanh . This quote means that it doesn't matter what others think of you it’s just matters what you think of yourself. In the novel, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton addresses the theme of accepting yourself for who you are, and not to let others change you. It is implied by S.E. Hinton that people should learn to embrace themselves for who they are and not to change if others don’t accept you or have prejudice towards you.

These conversations greatly affect the story as it allows Honora to relieve her built up stress by sharing her emotions with her friends, which in turn leads to a happier and healthier Honora. Ultimately, however, Honora learns that it is very important to make friendships as it allows her to be helped in times of need and express her emotions so that she continues to endure the worst of which is yet to

At the beginning of “2 Arms and 2 Legs,” Quarta was very weak. Throughout her lifetime, she was teased and mocked just for having two arms and two legs, because all the other kids had four arms and four legs. Though Quarta was miserable, she never fought back. She just let her classmates taunt her, continuously. The author wrote, “The other children teased her...but what could she do?” Quarta could’ve fought back and defied the bullies, but she

Forgiveness and acceptance is the only way that tolerance and progression can occur. Harper represents another character who has a disease tied with her identity, but uses both the illness and the present to grow and positively change for her own well being.

When people try too hard to be accepted they will never be happy, and they also will never find their true personality. Jeanne tried so hard to fit in with the American culture that she never was her regular self. “From that day forward I lived with this double impulse: the

Many things are important to us, one of these is being accepted by our society. We all hate to be the outsider or the new kid, because we feel alone and secluded . In “Who Am I This Time?';, Helene Shaw’s job kept her moving to a different town every eight weeks. She became very cold to her

Throughout the story Quarta transitions from weak to brave. By the end of the story she learns that it’s okay to stand up for yourself. Weak. One name can change a person.

After someone accepts what he or she have become, that someone and his or her family must deal with it. The rest of the story depicts one's life after this turning point.