Relevance Of Literature: Themes Of Acceptance In Literature

Acceptance in Literature Acceptance is a lesson that some people strive for. Examples can be seen on the news with minorities fighting for the same rights as others and just wanting to be accepted. We see it in your T.V. shows and in your youtube videos and all over including literature. Accepting someone or something can be difficult but it's important we do because if we didn’t the what's the purpose of even existing together. In literature acceptance is discussed either directly or in directly through means in literature and stories such as “ What, of This Goldfish do You Wish”,“Texas V. Johnson The Majority Opinion”, “The Lottery” such as theme. In The short story “What, of This Goldfish do You Wish” written by Etgar Kreten. There could be different kinds of acceptance lessons learned from, but one that can be learned is Accepting the world. This is a problem Sergei Goralick has after he moved away from his home and for a While he thought the world was all bad but he had to accept that everything isn't all bad and to let some people in and let some go and Sergei says, “he wouldn't ask of it a single thing. He’d just stick it n a shelf in a

Johnson The Majority Opinion” by Ronald Allen. This work is about the court case where an American was using his right to protest and burned the American flag and many wanted to send him to prison but the court over all ruled that he was using his rights and that putting him away would be very hypocritical to America's way of doing things and supreme court justice William J. Brennan states “...Our decision is a reaffirmation of the principles of freedom and inclusiveness that the flag best represents…”(Allen 15). This quote shows that although what he did may not have seemed like a good thing we can turn our backs on our nations beliefs of accepting all people and their religions and whatever the might believe