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Skin Color As Depicted In The Wives Story By Jordan Barbara

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We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves”(Jordan Barbara). People are different in many obvious ways, including ethnicity, skin color, and language, Barbara vaguely covers this in her quote. People should be able to accept others, whether it’s a language barrier or having different religions of beliefs. No matter what species, skin color should not matter on whether there is acceptance between them. The text "The Wives Story” Her husband turns into a human, then turns on his previously close wolf family. “Not so much that he went, but that he came back so tired, and strange. Even, he smelled strange. ”(Le Guin). The husband is coming back smelling strange, It is a foreboding feeling that he gives his wolf family going out each night and not telling them where he's going. “Hair began to come away all over his body. It picked up a heavy fallen tree branch in his long white foot, and shoved the end of it down into our house at me.”(Le Guin). This quote tells he is turning into a human, losing hair and so on. He had turned on his previously wolf family. This story is a great example of having a different skin color, the wife Still accepted her husband as he was turning into a human. …show more content…

My so-called enemy directed by Lisa Gossels is a story about two girls that live in different countries, and those countries are fighting each other. “When I see them as individuals, I love them"(Gossels). She is saying that she does not hate them as individuals. She may not like their country because of the war they are having with them. "We read together, and dance together," (Gossels). Inas Likes to be friends with them and does not think of them as bad people. This is a great example of acceptance because, She can accept them as human beings but may not be able to accept their

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