Analysis Of Seeing Beyond Our Differences By Sheri White

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In “Seeing Beyond Our Differences “by Sheri White, the author writes about how people are different in their appearances, race, and religion. After all, everyone is human and almost identical. The author points out how her mother is from India with a dark skin color and her father is from Indiana with a light skin color. Her parents still able to get married and there is no obstacle in their marriage. As a daughter, the author has never noticed that her parents are different in their skin colors and races. They both are the same as human to her. The author’s main idea is to let people know that no matter what race they are, what religion they follow, or how they look, they all are human. Deep down inside them, in their DNA, they all are 99.9 percent the same and almost identical. In this article, the author uses expressive purpose and descriptive pattern to express her main idea. …show more content…

Throughout the article, the author uses the first person view to illustrate her main idea. For example, in the first paragraph she says “I learned that despite our differences in size, shape and color, we humans are 99.9 percent the same”. Here she uses the first person point of view to show her belief that people are different on the outside but inside they all are human, which is an example of expressive purpose. She says “I never noticed that my parents were different colors” and “I knew them as my parents before I saw them as people – before I perceived their skin color”. In this two quotes, the author expresses her feeling that although her parents are different in their skin colors she had never been racist or noticed that. The author sees her mother and father as her parents, their skin colors do not make them different to her. It is another characteristic of expressive

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