By Another Name Character Analysis

In “A Work in Progress” by Aimee Mullins the main character is Aimee. As an infant she had both legs amputated below her knee, and at age five had a major surgery to correct the growth of her tibia. After the surgery, she was first put into a wheelchair, and her teacher called her a distraction and that she shouldn’t attend school anymore. She had struggled as a child with being in a wheelchair, but gets prosthetics when she gets older and decides she wants to become an Athlete. She becomes comfortable prosthetic legs and becomes the athlete she always dreamed she could be. In “By Another Name” by Santha Rama Rau, two Indian sisters attend an English school in India. The girls attend their new and unfamiliar school and are given new

At her school she was called “inappropriate” (313) by her own teacher. Aimee finally gets prosthetics that she wanted, but soon faces another challenge when her father tells her she must change what she is wearing because people would be able to see her fake legs. When she got to college she began to run track and field and had a successful career of running. She faced yet another challenge when she was asked to go back to her school to speak, but after she explains to him all that she has done he says that the only reason she was respected was because she was vulnerable and she ended up not speaking there. In life you will be faced with the challenge of fitting in many times, but you should not let the people around you define who you are. At school there are lots of trends and I see it here at collegiate where people wear certain clothes or shoes because it’s a fad. In third and fourth grade the largest fad by far was “Silly Bandz” and everyone had them and everyone wanted to have them. It may seem to be an unsophisticated example, but it is very relevant to the topic. Everyone should be individual and not just what other people are pressuring them to be, but truly themselves. Be a leader not a