Summative Essay

Summative Essay

            Throughout history people have always judged one another depending on information they hear from others. However, most of the time when they get to know each other they change their opinions realizing that the other has their own problems to deal with. No one can live without struggles, no one.

              As we read  "Romeo and Juliet" Lady Capulet is portrayed as a self centered mother who does not care about her daughter at all. They do this by describing how much she likes to party and drink. After this we (as the readers) begin to dislike Lady Capulet because of the information that we have been given by the play. However, after Lady Capulet tells Juliet about how she had to get married at a younger age than what Juliet was being forced into, we began to sympathize her and understand the problems she had to go through. She was just trying to live the childhood that she never had.

            “The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time” has many examples of someone walking in others' shoes. Christopher was completely crossed when his dad had lied to him, due to his inability to understand complicated situations and others' emotions. However, after time he was able to learn in his own way that other people had emotions that he could not understand, causing him to fill the gap that had been created between him and his parents.

            Back when I was still living in the Philippines people had a very twisted understanding on how people lived in Canada. Canadians were thought to be rich, have perfect looks, and that they had no problems they had to deal with. They truly believed that Canadians lived in a paradise. I learnt soon enough that this wasn’t the case. As my first year went by I saw how there were people struggling even in Canada. Whether it be financial, emotional, or health struggles, people were still having to deal with similar problems to the ones that people in the Philippines were dealing with. Then I realized rich or poor there will always be people struggling all over the world. That’s just the way it works.

            This just goes to show that if one is to truly understand someone, they must first walk a mile in the others' shoes. Once they've done that they are able to learn something new about the other and themselves.