To have complete and thorough knowledge of who someone truly is, is quite similar to being present in their mind at all times, experiencing and comprehending every passing thought which they have. Digging through the masses of thoughts which are embedded within the layers in their brain. Having through knowledge of someone means to know their deepest and innermost thoughts at all times. Knowing someone to the fullest extent is quite comparable to understanding their thoughts and emotions which they may not necessarily choose to voluntarily share with others. The short story Seventh Grade portrayed the struggle of thinking that you truly do know someone to the greatest level. This short story depicted the experiences of Victor, a young adolescent …show more content…
Although we may not realize it, we often times have the sincere belief that we truly do know someone, simply by looking at them. By looking at them, and viewing their external attributes, such as the way that they dress and look, we assume that we know who they really are. However, truly knowing someone goes beyond what they look like on the outside. Victor’s instant judging of Teresa is portrayed when he communicates to the reader, “She was cute. And good at math too” (Soto 1). Victor genuinely thinks that he knows Teresa, and therefore likes her. However, he does not really know who she is as a person. He simply thinks that he knows who she is based off of observing the way she looks and acts. By making the common mistake of judging one’s external attributes, we automatically make the assumption that we know who they are. This common misconception causes for people to no longer try to get to know someone better, because they feel as if they already accurately know who they are. Victor’s judging of Teresa lead him to falsely believe that he knew her and loved her. Due to this, he no longer feels the need to get to sincerely know who she is, because he feels as if her external features define her, and give him an authentic view of who she is. Although we may not realize it, as humans, we often times make assumptions and judge others by the …show more content…
In today’s society, simply meeting someone and getting to know their name, is enough for us to declare that we know them. Having knowledge of who someone is goes beyond basic communication with that person. Having knowledge about someone is about having authentic information and facts about their traits, along with being familiar with all parts of their personality. The task of truly knowing someone is indeed one that most are not able to achieve. Not only do we have to deeply communicate genuine information with others, but we also have to be willing to go beyond the looks to know someone in great depth. However, this being said, knowing someone to the fullest extent may be beyond our capability. After all having knowledge about somone is not necessarily possible. In certain cases, aspects of one’s true character may never be revealed to someone sels, limiting how well we can really know them. At times, they may not feel the need to show certain parts of who they are if they are never put into that situation. To thoroughly and concisely know someone, is beyond one's’ true control. However, we do have the capability to make the joint effort to try to get to know someone else better by deeply choosing to communicate our thoughts and feelings with them them, which at times, we may decide to shield from
It is impossible to understand the innermost and ever complex thoughts, feelings, hopes, and reflections of others. To understand is to grasp the strife and pleasure of each moment’s depth through a set lens. Confined by my own lens, I have been and will always be the main character of my own book. Though I can never know another human’s cognitive glances, I can at least be mindful of the infinite complexity and reasoning of each human. Even the most empathetic cannot understand exactly how Claude Monet felt for Camille, how Beethoven felt for “Elise”, or how
In 2009 Chimamanda Adichie gave a TED talk about the ‘danger of a single story’. A single story meaning, one thought or one example of a person becoming what we think about all people that fit that description, a stereotype if you will. In today’s America, I believe that we have all felt the wave of stereotypical views at some point or another. Adichie gives many relatable examples throughout her life of how she has been affected by the single story. Her story brings about an issue that all humans, from every inch of the earth, have come to understand on some level. A young child reading only foreign books, a domestic helper that she only perceived as poor. Her college roommates single story about Africans and her own formation of a single
Now a day, people make assumptions of other things based solely on appearance. What people wear, how they look, the covers of books, the titles of movies and even brand names are an example of this expression. People believe that by simply looking at something or someone by the outside will give them all the necessary information to find out how that person or object really is. This expression is well used when describing people. Every so often, people are judged solely based on their appearance. We can easily get the wrong fir...
Many people assume they know people, in reality no one can really know a person fully. There are always secrets, emotions, and thoughts people keep to themselves. These internal secrets make it difficult to understand each human individually. My job is to make sure by the end of this essay, you know Kylia Morrison better than you did when she first walked through the classroom door Monday morning.
Ever school carries its legends, secrets, and stories, many which are overseen by the curriculum. In Liberty Elementary, there lies ones secret that tends to stir the minds of the students every so often that Halloween approaches, and the coaches are given the opportunity to scare the children. According to Coach Espinoza, the story ties way back to the 1900’s when the city was in its midst expanding into further other unsettled territory.
This was shown through Victor’s creation, the Creature in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Conclusions about a person should not be based on the physical appearance because they can turn out to be a totally different person then what their outer image shows. Society’s prejudice can be avoided if people stand out and get to know each other before creating an opinion about their character without
As a rule, recognize the true value and the capacity of a person only for their skills. Often we do not recognize the prejudices we possess, and we do not want to admit that we judge different a person by their appearance. Th...
It was picture day at Oak Grove East, and the third grade pictures were after lunch. Whoever thought that it would be okay to let third graders go out to recess and then come in for pictures after they’re all sweaty is just a complete idiot, but the pictures were after lunch. During recess, a couple of us enjoyed to play cops and robbers. That certain day, I was a cop. Zach Otten was a robber. I was chasing him to the left of the playground by the basketball hoop. When we were in third grade there was a lot of loose gravel by the basketball hoop closest to the playground.
One can really get to know a person; such as, for getting a relationship with a special someone. Anybody can get to know anybody. People can easily know what someone like or dislikes, in return an individual can use it to their advantage. In theory, it should help get their special someone, they keep thinking about.
Bonvillian, John. "First Impressions." Psychology 101. Class Lecture. Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. October 1999.
A short story is a fictional piece of writing that can range from 1,000 to 20,000 words. Unlike a novel, he reader should be able to read a short story within a short amount of time. Because the length of a short story is shorter than a novel, it usually has one main character (minor characters can be added in limited amounts) and focuses on one plot, setting, and central theme.
The short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman focuses on a young woman’s psychological downfall and her fascination with the wallpaper within the house she and her husband are living in. The woman begins to believe that the wallpaper is coming alive, which leads her to become confused with reality and fantasy. Gilman selects the crazed woman as the narrator of the story. Furthermore, Gilman uses first person point of view to effectively convey the woman’s emotions and feelings during her mental decline.
It was about one-thirty in the morning in the town of Homestead Michigan. The almost florescent light of the moon bouncing off the fresh puddles that covered the ground. The grass and trees were covered in a thin layer of water causing every little beam of light to reflect back up. Anyone who may have been outside at this time would have without double, smelled the mix of fresh dirt and night crawlers. As the moonlight started to fade away through the cloud cover, three buses made there way through the streets and parked in front of HHS, the local high school.
“This is the last time,” the girl said as she took her index fingers and forced them down her throat, and watched as the remains of her dinner erupted out of her body. The girl got up and cringed as she saw the remains of her Caesar salad spun around the porcelain and silently slipped away.
There was a girl named Kandy, she was 15 years old. Her life was extremely boring, all she ever did was go to school, go on her computer, eat and sleep. She spent all summer on her computer. She was really good with HTML and spent her free time making web sites. Kandy didn't have many friends and rarely talked to guys because she was shy and unconfident about her looks. That's why she went into chat rooms. She made a web site with pictures of herself on it and told people in chat rooms to go there. A lot of people would tell her how pretty she was and some would say she was ugly. That made her feel awful. When anyone would say anything nice to her, she wouldn't believe them and think that they were just making fun of her. She only had one real friend that she could talk to, her name was Ang.