The Importance of Expressing Our Inner Thoughts...Or Not...

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Being brought up in this society I have come to realize the urgency of revealing our private thoughts and personal opinions. Speaking your own voice has come to show many benefits as well as consequences. Literature has warned us that our words have a strong impact in displaying our thoughts and opinions allowing for others to feel empathy and love towards us just as well as it brings hatred ,and loathing against us. Should we really stand up and reveal our private thoughts or should we bury them within ourselves? What impact will it have on society if we do choose to reveal our thoughts?
After reading "The Book Of Negroes" I have come to realize that revealing your private thoughts can be a dangerous task. Before reading the novel I was not conscious as to how oblivious I was to those who live in corrupted societies. I am fortunate enough to be living in a country where freedom of speech is a right as long as it does not threaten others safety or promote hatred of any kind. As Aminata would walk the streets of Shelburne, she constantly faced hostility towards her and the other 'negroes'. Even the White's who stood up against the hostility on their own would be shoved back down. Aminata had witnessed a white man try to stand up against his aggression only to be beaten down for it. Although this man was greatly outnumbered why is it that he tried to help? Is it our human instinct to help others who are in need? Or was it guilt?
Is it because of society that we act the way we do? Following whatever the majority perceives as right or the 'cool' thing to do. Literature has brought me to the belief that humans are very adaptable as we tend to adapt to not only our surroundings but also to what others around us think. We adapt for th...

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...atsoever, other people would be judgemental enough to think of you as someone you are not. Literature plays a big role in societies, families and relationships, it is important that we share our thoughts, claim what we believe and make others realize that if something to you is important and why is it important. In literature we have to be persuasive and be able to explain the reason behind everything and the reason to things, being able to communicate with each and every person and even to make them realize it's hard. It is more about yourself and how you communicate more than anything else, literature is important and overall it teaches us and warns us about the urgency to reveal our inner thoughts.

Works Cited

Alexie, Sherman. "Superman And Me." Los Angeles Times 19 Apr. 1998. Print.
Hill, Lawrence. The Book Of Negroes. Canada: Harper Collins, 2007. Print.

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