Accepting Others In Diane Glancy's 'Without Title'
The Acceptance of Others
It was once said by Barbara Jordan that “We as human beings must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” Jordan could not have been closer to the truth. From race, to religious views, to ethnicity, no two people are the same. Without acceptance, people turn on one another. We must accept those who are different from from ourselves because if we do not feelings get hurt as shown in “Without Title”, violence occurs as does in “The Wife’s Story”, and wars are even declared as shown in My So-Called Enemy. Unquestionably, in the poem “Without Title” by Diane Glancy,the Native American father, while persevering in the white culture does not accept it wholeheartedly. For example, Glancy says “It’s hard you know without the buffalo, the shaman, [and] the arrow.” She implies it is a struggle for her father to go to work every day “in the packing house,” acting as if his culture is no longer a part of him. In addition, Glancy points out that “no one marked his first kill,” and “no one sang his buffalo song.” In the previously stated quotes she emphasizes …show more content…
In “Without Title” by Diane Glancy, the white men accepting the father for his culture and welcoming him into theirs would make the father happy compared to the loss and placelessness he feels without a culture. When you do not accept others for who they are, as the wife did in “The Wife’s Story” by Ursula K. Le Guin, you cause horrible things to happen. In this instance, the consequence was the demise of the husband. The girls in My So-Called Enemy accept each other, in spite of one lands war against the other, and end up becoming friends with girls they would have never talked to without positive views towards each other. Hence, acceptance is one of the most important things we can practice in order to succeed in a favorable
It was once said by Barbara Jordan that “We as human beings must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” Jordan could not have been closer to the truth. From race, to religious views, to ethnicity, no two people are the same. Without acceptance, people turn on one another. We must accept those who are different from from ourselves because if we do not feelings get hurt as shown in “Without Title”, violence occurs as does in “The Wife’s Story”, and wars are even declared as shown in My So-Called Enemy. Unquestionably, in the poem “Without Title” by Diane Glancy,the Native American father, while persevering in the white culture does not accept it wholeheartedly. For example, Glancy says “It’s hard you know without the buffalo, the shaman, [and] the arrow.” She implies it is a struggle for her father to go to work every day “in the packing house,” acting as if his culture is no longer a part of him. In addition, Glancy points out that “no one marked his first kill,” and “no one sang his buffalo song.” In the previously stated quotes she emphasizes …show more content…
In “Without Title” by Diane Glancy, the white men accepting the father for his culture and welcoming him into theirs would make the father happy compared to the loss and placelessness he feels without a culture. When you do not accept others for who they are, as the wife did in “The Wife’s Story” by Ursula K. Le Guin, you cause horrible things to happen. In this instance, the consequence was the demise of the husband. The girls in My So-Called Enemy accept each other, in spite of one lands war against the other, and end up becoming friends with girls they would have never talked to without positive views towards each other. Hence, acceptance is one of the most important things we can practice in order to succeed in a favorable