The Other Side Cover Analysis

In the town of Longtown, Ohio, all races have mixed freely for nearly 200 years. This early integration town was founded by James Clemens, a freed slave from Virginia. People there have married and befriended each other no matter the color of their skin. These conditions are outstanding considering the racism outside the town at the time. We can learn from these people living in almost perfect harmony by not judging anyone by anything else other than their character. In paragraph 4 of the article “Ohio town holds rare history: Races mix freely for nearly 200 years”, the Connor Keiser states, “We were the usual Longtown family. We all looked different, and we were taught that color didn’t matter.” Keiser demonstrates how when he grew up around different colored people, no one cared. They just became friends and lived peacefully because happiness and harmony doesn’t have to be a result of segregation. Another piece of evidence that demonstrates this is in paragraph 21 when the author states, “The Tigers’ appearance often confounded opponents.

Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. This is a famous saying, and it is used many times when you are checking a book. But this saying also works for people. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes about life in Maycomb, and how many characters has some rumors that affected them negatively. Harper Lee also sends this message to the readers, that we can not judge people by their cover. We can not judge them by either, race, rumors, etc. Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Dolphus Raymond all had bad things said about them. Scout also sees that these people are truly not bad people. The theme is that outward appearances is not always accurate.

After reading the book The Other Side authored by Jacqueline Woodson, the reader can analyze the author’s tone, audience, and the symbolism used in this story. The two girls in the story, Clover, and Annie, never notice the difference between them. They do not discern the discrimination that their world is filled with.

The concept of judging other individuals based on their looks and class status is a reflection seen within Flannery O’Connor’s short story called “Revelation.” In this story O’Connor illustrates a women who is extremely arrogant, and believes that she is superior to others because of her white skin and wealth. This

First, The Other Side’s tone is everybody is created equivalent to every other being in the world. By the way people look, people are taught to judge others that way. In this book, Annie and Clover did not care what color the other’s skin was. “That summer me and Annie sat together on that fence. And when Sandra and them looked at me funny, I just made believe

Her individual desires do not outweigh the needs of others in the community,e.g., her mother’s need for appreciation. Furthermore, she is chastised for wanting to be like the white kids, which is the child’s self-otherization. She’s not like the white kids and she wants to view the white kids as the ideal—or that could be reading too much into it: she could just want a damned

The author of The Other Side, Jacqueline Woodson, uses tone, symbolism, and the audience in many ways. Woodson’s tone in The Other Side is acceptance; he shows acceptance when the girls play with each other even though they live in a segregated community. The symbol Woodson uses is the fence to show that people can overcome barriers separating them and other people. Woodson’s audience is young children; he wrote this book for them to show that skin color doesn’t matter it is what is on the inside that counts.

She makes it clear that although we say that our society has come far from the old forms of discrimination we have not truly ended racial caste in America and that we have merely redesigned it. Looking at racial inequality from a Marxist lens, race is used to oppress individuals in order to capitalize on wealth. Furthermore, Marxism looks at race as a byproduct of the human desire for lucrativeness. In other words, certain groups want to accumulate as much wealth and material, and in order for them to do that they need to mitigate competition. Competition is reduced through oppressive tactics, certain groups of individuals establish themselves as the essential subject whilst making everyone else around them as the inessential object. By identifying a separation factor, like skin color, one group can thus establish itself as the subject while establishing the other as the object. Tying this back to the play, we can see the correlation between white people and supremacy, and black people and inferiority. Color Blindness comes from a lack of awareness of racial privilege conferred by Whiteness. Due to the fact that White individuals have never encountered difficulty pertaining to issues of race, they are unable to sympathize and acknowledge that the condition exists. Rebecca, as

The book shows you things like prejudice and about preconceived notions. Some eyes need to be open so people know what is going on throughout the

In many parts of the world, many people suffer from discrimination and hatred of many forms of discrimination just because of their color, race, ethnicity, religion and nationality. In O’Connor’s writing, she mentioned Julian's mother and the large black women were wearing the same hideous green hat. It means the two women are on equal social position although Julian’s mother considers herself superior to black people. Because of the hat, Julian hopes his mom will learn a lesson that she and everybody; especially, the black woman are more alike than different like she thought “if the woman were a monkey that had stolen her hat” (p286). Now, we live in the midst of the modern 21st century, but there are not rare cases of discrimination are founded.

When scrolling through Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter we see images of  people who we look up to because of their physical appearance, that we consider beautiful and reject those who don’t meet the “ideal” standards of society because we are ignorant and don’t consider their feelings. Society's standards are constantly changing, as we try to meet them we ignore the value of the people around us. Instead, we should focus and set a goal to get to know people who we think are different from us.  In the novel To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Harper Lee conveys the message of if we humans learn to accept one another and set aside our predisposed beliefs of others we are more likely to understand them better, avoid conflict and gain new perspectives and bonds.

“Don’t judge a book by its cover” one of many recurring themes that is repeated throughout the three sections of the book “Echo”. Which shows how others discriminated them by their race, color of skin, and heritage.This means that other looked and defined them for what they are in the outside and didn’t really take the time to know them better fro the inside and for what they have in their heart and soul. The author meant to put these three sections together to show how not only Germany discriminated Jewish because they thought that getting rid of them was the solution to winning the war, and how if you weren't a “perfect German” under Hitler rules you were not accepted into society, but also the United States treated unfairly the japanese because they thought since pearl harbor, Japanese we all spies and were categorizing them because of their color of skin. Which shows how throughout these few chapter people were judged on from their appearances and on where they are from.

A very important concept in the story don't judge people by their outside, people have experience that shapes their response and action. It's important to think in other people’s shoe. When we look at somebody when can see what they look like, what they are wearing, what is their posture, and maybe scars. However, everybody has a story to tell, often these experience are not visible on the surface. That’s why it's important to give them a chance. For example, the main character, Samantha was judged harshly upon arrival by

After reading “Tuesday of the other June” Listening to “Invisible” By Hunter Hayes and “reading” the picture provided, I believe that the topic is don’t judge. But to find the theme you have to look a little bit deeper, so go ahead read on.

The purpose of Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is to demonstrate the hardships that are met when ignorance and tradition bring about the influence of sexism, racism and genuine prejudice to the general public. Ignorance is the root cause of prejudice as it prevents one to see beauty, so when it comes to dealing with the discriminating behavior held in this social order, the vast majority of people are judged by the label and stereotype society has given them, not by the kind of person they are inside. Nevertheless, through these corrupt societies, the protagonists are able to experience incredible journeys of courage, growth and love. Bravery and love is