Dehumanization Of Frogs

Joshua David Stone, an American author and teacher once said, “We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do is create thoughts that trap us.” In the short poem, Even the croaking frogs” by Hakuro Wada, she talks about the inhumane cruelty that she probably had to face. She talks about how that the frog outside of the fence has more freedom than she does. She wonders if her people can escape from their cruel life. After reading the poem, Even the croaking of frogs”, it impacted how I saw the world for what it really is. First, the theme of this poem is dehumanization. In the poem, it says, “comes from outside the barbed wire fence” (Kennedy, Gioia 719). This shows that there are people behind the fence, unable to leave. The fence …show more content…
In the poem, there are only two characters: the people and the frogs. This is really important because the speaker talks about how the people are behind the fences while the frogs are outside the fence. This shows how little people value other people’s lives compared to animals. In recent news, the article, “United Airlines passenger violently dragged from seat on overbooked flight” by Jamiles Lartey, it reports the incident of United Airline violently dragging one of their customers out of the airline because they were overbooked. The airline overbooked their seatings because they believe that not everyone would show up. However, everyone did show up, but they needed four extra seats for their workers. They decided to pay people to give their seats, but at last, no one wanted to give up their seats. They decided to do a random seat choosing and all, but one man left. The man claimed that he was a doctor and he needed to get back home in order to treat one of his patients. The airline called in security and they began beating him, forcing him to leave, and eventually dragging him out while passengers were stunned by what had just happened. This shows how people value their lives over than others. People are willing to humiliate and embarrass someone just because the person doesn’t want to do what they want them to do. In another news called, “Outrage, Explanations After United Turns Away Girls From Flight For …show more content…
The speaker feels stuck and unable to move. The poem states, “Even the croaking of the frogs/comes from outside the barbed wire fence/this is our life” (Kennedy, Gioia 719). The poem itself is depressing because of how people are stuck and they know they can’t do anything about it. In the article, “The Impact of Power on Humanity: Self-Dehumanization in Powerlessness” by Ulrich von Hecker, it discusses the impact of dehumanization and people who are powerless against other. There was a study conducted to see “the relationship between powerlessness and dehumanization” (Hecker). In the previous experiments, self perception and meta perception both are related and contribute to powerlessness. Self perception is “when one focuses on oneself and goals” (Hecker). This can be one reason why people feel like an object at time because of the cognitive (emotional). When a person is in a powerless position, they tend to think less of themselves, therefore, thinking that they are an “object”. On the other hand, meta perception is when one focuses on their environment and compares it to one’s standard. This one is about when people are treated like animals. They go through a “shameful and embarrassing moment”. This causes a loss to oneself and believe that they are not worthy of being apart of society. This ties back with impact of life cause many of us go through this, but we are unable to fight through it. We tend to think we are better