Author's Note: This piece
was written to demonstrate my knowledge of Text Analysis
Can you just imagine
what little girls had to go through when they were younger in china? Many children hundreds of years ago had to
suffer for the rest of their lives, because of what parents thought was beautiful.
Their mothers would put their feet under a stool, so the bones in their feet
would transform into a different formation. This is the pain they will have to
go through for the rest of their life, walking around with pegs, and small
shoes. What would you do for beauty, just to look beautiful at that moment of
time?
In the story “Ribbons”
it talks about a Chinese girl named Stacy who loved ballet
but almost had to give it all up because her parents wanted their grandma to
come live with them.
Stacy had a hard time because Paw-paw was favoring Ian not her. Beauty plays a
role in this story, because her grandma has terrible feet the reason why she
never wants to talk about it is, because when she was little her mother binded
her feet this happens in China. back then that was there way of showing
their beauty. They thought that rich guys would take care of them
because their feet were beautiful. So Paw-Paw had live with her feet like that
for a long time. I think Modern society has changed our ideal of beauty.
In quite dramatic ways.
For example,
Girls are getting skinner and guys are getting bulkier. Also wrinkles seem to
be the thing of the past. In my opinion I think Hollywood plays a big role in
this because look at all of the actors and actresses, singers and dancers. What
do they all have in common? That’s right false beauty. I think we shouldn’t
waste our time on looking good and being pretty. I think we should spend
time a helping out the world like helping nature or finding cures for cancer.
Furthermore
people these days spend so much money on trying to look good. Like dying their
hair, Botox, and much more, but instead they should spend their money for
people in need, like making a change in the world to make yourself noticed
about the good things you do. Not getting noticed on how beautiful you
are or getting noticed by getting plastic surgery. I really don’t care how I
look but most other people I think today do. That’s a shame because they
waste all that money on makeup and clothes and surgery just to make
themselves look better when they actually don’t.
A pain that will never be forgotten
is the foot binding many children who lived in china had to go though. Then
suffered with the pain the rest of their life’s. The pain that
everyone goes through is not necessary. If it was
today society or if it was hundreds of years ago. Help
someone that actually needs money not just beauty that’s painful.
