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In “Am I Blue”, by Alice Walker, Blue is representing all animals that are treated poorly. Blue lives a life in a beautiful meadow. His owner comes to see him once every few months. He is boarded with a female horse and impregnates her. You can tell by the look in his eyes that Blue is in love with her; “I forgot the depth of feeling one could see in horses’ eyes.” Blue’s partner and unborn child are then taken away as if “they had been born into slavery.” Blue galloped furiously around the meadow. “He looked always and always toward the road down which his partner had gone.” When Blue came for apples he gave a look “so piercing, so full of grief, a look so human…to think there are people who do not know that animals suffer.” Blue lost all trust in humans and gave a look of “disgust with human beings, with life; the look of hatred…it gave him, the look of a beast.”
“Am I Blue” would teach a lesson not only on animal rights, but also human rights. There are people who consider that animals do not have rights and that they actually want to be abused by humans. Could Blue be representing these people and animals? Yes, there are words that could be censored due to their prejudice meaning, but these words portray how Blue is feeling and by the end of the story you see just a white horse in the meadow.
“Hands”, by Jonathan London is a story about the positive and negative effects of showing affection. Mr. Marlow or Ray is a poet who was imprisoned for putting his hands on a student. “It’s how I am. I’m affectionate by nature.” Ray gave a student a grade that he deserved rather than a grade he wanted, so the student said he was “fondled” by Ray. The school looked into his private life and found that he was living with his partner who was a man, built a case, and put him in prison. Does this mean that if a “straight” person or person of the opposite sex was to “fondle” a student they would not be punished? The boy, Lon, is taken to the...
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