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Confident, Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

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Throughout this school year I read a bunch of book, text, theme, and issue like for example:The Scarlet Letter,Common Sense, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and etc. This book, text, and theme all taught lesson that can be contribute to bettering the modern American society. The book I am going to choose is “The Scarlet Letter” this book taught three lesson that can better the American society which are Be Confident, Don’t Judge Other, and Be Humble. In this essay I am going to go in details of how this can better the society today. The first lesson is Be Confident, in the book the “Scarlet letter” The main character(A Woman) had to wear the Letter A that was imprinted in her clothing. She had to wear this because she cheated on her husband and the letter A represented adultery. Toward the middle-end of the book she didn’t care about the people had to say because she had a daughter and she didn't want her to see her as nothing else but a confident women but this wore off because she was confident for herself not caring what people has to say. This can better the American modern society because you shouldn't care what others have to say no is perfect and if someone is hating on you don’t worry about it because you have better things to do than worry about them. When someone see how confident you are then they are not going to judge …show more content…

They didn’t ask her Why she did it?, If she ok, If she needs someone to talk to? They didn’t ask none of this question just like in today's society the are quick to judge which is not good. They should stop doing this because as my mother says, “Don't treat others how you don't wanna be treated.” We as a society should stop judging others because you don't know what they are going through close door. By seeing if they are ok can probably give them a smile if they were having a bad day at home or even from

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