One person is different from another person. People are different and
people change. The thing is, you can’t see that one the outside of a person,
you rarely can’t look at a person and know his or hers story. However, in this article, I will tell you a
little bit about my views, thoughts, experiences and opinions on how literature
or movies can make us more aware of social inequality, past or present. I will use examples from a movie we saw in
class today called “the blind side” and from the book I read a couple a weeks
ago called “the Hunger Games”.
Humans need experience to get wise, smarter, see solutions and basically
to do almost everything other things in life. To get friends, jobs, know what
to do when a problem rise and to know how to act around other people. Children
need a role model. They need someone to
learn from, experience things from and someone to look up to. I have had a
really nice childhood, incredible many great memories. But many people have for
example had an awful childhood or many bad memories. They may have experienced
terrible things. But how can I, who had had a wonderful childhood, understand
and realize how those kids have lived? I need experience and I need to learn.
And I believe most of that learning happens when I read books, or watch movies.
When you watch movies or read, you learn and experience new things and
information all the time. You extend your knowledge, and I believe knowledge
makes you wise.
The hunger games is an example of a movie and book that probably can
make you learn more about different social inequality. I know the hunger games
are an action, adventure and science fiction movie and book, but if you have
read the book or seen the movie, you know that there are several totally
different characters in the book. There are the poor people in the 12 districts
and there are the people of the capitol. Those people have an incredible
different social inequality. And when we look at Katniss, we can’t see what she
has been through. We can’t see that she almost starved to death and that she
lost her father at age 12. However, what I am trying to say is that when you
look at a girl, and all you can see is a smile, you may think that she has a
perfect life and blah, blah blah. But many awful memories can hide behind her
smile; the smile can be fake and just a thin wall to how awful her life has
been. What I mean is that the person
that you think you know, maybe sitting next to you smiling in the classroom,
can have many terrible experiences.
The movie we saw in class today is called the blind side. It is about a
family that takes a homeless boy home. The boy Michael Oher has had a terrible
childhood, never owned his own bed and never had a real family. He can’t do
anything at school; his grades are bad, his social skills, but when the family
doesn’t give up on him he starts to do better at school. But this family takes
care of him, and slowly he starts to become a part of their family. At the end
of the movies he gets a football scholarship and he goes to college. When I saw
this movie I thought about how people with a bad childhood can make it, with
maybe just a little help and how you don’t know how a person got to the point
in life where the person is when you met him or her. I got more aware on how
lucky I have been with my childhood, and I thought about children all over the
world having bad childhoods.
When you read books, or see movies, you learn and you think about new
things. You become more aware of social inequities, past and present. You think
about things you have never ever thought about before.
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