Speech By Aung San Suu Kyi Analysis
Accepting people who are not like ourselves is important although some learn to accept better than others do. Society should learn to accept everyone as human beings. By accepting others it can bring peace and happiness to the society. In a society, prosperity and peace are important to it’s happiness. Society has to learn to accept others different from us a human beings, because it is important and necessary for peace and tranquility. Society as a whole is not very accepting of other human beings who do not do things the way others do or if they act different from everyone else. However human beings must accept each other for who we are because none of us are exactly the same. In “Towards a True Refugee” a speech by Aung San Suu Kyi,
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There are situations where we as people were not able to accept someone just because they were different from what we had become accustomed to. Sometimes we learn to accept that others are different when it’s already too late. In a short story titled “The Wife’s Story,” by Ursula K. Le Guin is about a wife who has to accept the fact that her husband has changed but it’s already too late. According to the text the author writes, “And I saw what he saw. I saw the changing. In his feet, it was first. They got long, each foot got longer, stretching out, the toes stretching out, and the foot getting long, and fleshy, and white. And no hair on them...He stood up then on two legs. I saw him, I had to see him, my own dear love, turned into the hateful one.” By this point in the story the wife had watched the change happen right in front of her and acted as if she could not deal with the fact that her husband the man she loved was no longer who she thought he was. She called him the hateful one because he changed into something that was not who she was. This proves that when the change was put right in front of her, she could not accept it. No matter what her husband did or said, he was doomed. It was too late because she did not realize that she still loved him until after he was gone. This is also when it becomes necessary and important to accept others who are different because at any point it could easily be someone that you love and care about that’s different from
There are situations where we as people were not able to accept someone just because they were different from what we had become accustomed to. Sometimes we learn to accept that others are different when it’s already too late. In a short story titled “The Wife’s Story,” by Ursula K. Le Guin is about a wife who has to accept the fact that her husband has changed but it’s already too late. According to the text the author writes, “And I saw what he saw. I saw the changing. In his feet, it was first. They got long, each foot got longer, stretching out, the toes stretching out, and the foot getting long, and fleshy, and white. And no hair on them...He stood up then on two legs. I saw him, I had to see him, my own dear love, turned into the hateful one.” By this point in the story the wife had watched the change happen right in front of her and acted as if she could not deal with the fact that her husband the man she loved was no longer who she thought he was. She called him the hateful one because he changed into something that was not who she was. This proves that when the change was put right in front of her, she could not accept it. No matter what her husband did or said, he was doomed. It was too late because she did not realize that she still loved him until after he was gone. This is also when it becomes necessary and important to accept others who are different because at any point it could easily be someone that you love and care about that’s different from