Saturday, December 5, 2015

Eye of the Beholder


Why is beauty such an important thing going on in society right now? There are many people that are so prejudice in society depending on how someone looks, what they wear, or where they come from. In the episode they are discriminating this young women who wants to be beautiful. The doctors are saying that this is her last chance. That they did so many surgeries that her body wouldn't be able to take it anymore. When someone is discriminating that means the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Why this was so interesting is because they were wanting to get rid of her to another location with everyone else that was "ugly", and she needed to be with her people, and to stop fighting it and go with the rest of them. Even when it was the main president talking to the world and saying that his way was right and how they should all be normal like himself.

The episode was mainly dealing with the lady she was bandaged all threw her whole head. She was just in surgery and she dreamed about living normal life. Wanting to be accepted with everyone. While she was getting unwrapped many people were watching for the reaction. When it was all done she was in reality beautiful. She was getting surgery to make herself ugly. That all the medicine, work, and professional, none of that worked and she was still beautiful. Everyone around her was ugly or had a dis formed. Everyone from the doctors to the president where ugly. But in the episode they were beautiful and the girl was ugly. I think that beauty is what the independent person feels confident with. It does not matter who thinks what who cares what anyone believes and do what you want to do it all depends on what you are confident about and no one else to care.

Two Lovers in The Tortilla Curtain By Tina, Desiree, and Jesell Perez

Two Lovers


Mary Wells was considered the Queen of Motown. Motown was important in popularizing soul music. Born in Michigan, Wells skyrocketed to fame in the sixties. She had many signature hits, but “Two Lovers” is her most relatable. It’s about a woman who loves a man, but he has two different sides to him. On one side, he is kind and on the other side he’s horrible to her. However, the woman still loves him regardless of how he treats her. She loves both sides of her lover unapologetically. Smokey Robinson wrote this song. He was inspired by an old movie, Mojo. Smokey believes, “Love doesn’t have no boundaries, no formulas, and no rules.” Those words come across as Mary sings her heart out on this song. Mary Wells was not only the voice of her generation, but also the many generations to come. The song’s audience is every woman who has ever been in her situation. Men do have two sides to them, not all but most. The same can be said for women. What “Two Lovers” is saying is that it is okay to love somebody like that. Love doesn’t have to be perfect. People don’t have to be perfect. Relationships don’t have to be perfect.


Two Lovers, Mary WellsThe Tortilla Curtain, T.C Boyle
Well, you know he treats me bad, makes me sad
Makes me cry but still I can’t deny
She threw it all at him, angry, hurt, terrified; and then he rose up of the blanket and slapped her. Hard. (83) 
Darling’ well, don’t you know that I can tell
Whenever I look at you that you think that I’m untrue?
If she was lying to him it was to spare him, he knew that, and his heart turned over for her in his drunkenness. (187) 
He’s sweet and kind and he’s mine all mine
He treats me good like a lover should
Nothing bothered him now, not his lip or his cheekbone… thinking of the beer and the turkey and America… And she smiled. She actually smiled. (264-265)
Cause you’re a split personality
And in reality, both of them are you, baby 
-He clowned for her, danced round the sand spit with the bird atop his head, doing a silly jog. (282)
-Angry, frustrated, his face turned into an expression that would have terrified him if he caught sight of himself. (207) 
Reference: www.songfacts.com
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