Equality books and life blog post

            Have you ever felt inadequate? Like someone is trying to push themselves up by pushing the rest of us down. The answer to that question is her, we have all felt that way at one point or another in our lives, and I you told me you hadn't, you must be the one shoving everyone around. I am writing a picture book about equality. In my picture book I use jungle animals to portray an inequivalent civilization. The tigers are the biggest animals, and they push every one around, and tell them what to do because they are bigger, stronger, and therefore better- and the other animals are helpless. I think that my picture book, even if it is (to be) made of  silly pictures of tigers birds and monkeys,  has something everything can relate to in a way, or give someone a reason to reflect on themselves. Picture books are truly fascinating. A child reading them only sees the story, the characters, ad the plot. But not really right? Children will have emotions and feelings toward characters and scenes. If they see someone being pushed around or bullied in a picture book they know that is wrong., and I think that's the hardest part if writing a picture book, getting the correct message across and making the  reader feel the write things about your writing.

           I am in the middle of reading  a book called Skinny, and recently finished Thirteen Reasons Why.  Thirteen Reasons Why is about a sixteen year old girl that commits suicide and leaves thirteen tapes behind, each holding her voice, telling one persons story each tape, and how they played a role in her death.I must say, equality was not one of the top themes/issues in this book. Many come before it. But if you search really hard, really dig through all the words you can find it, as usual. In Thirteen Reasons Why, the character faces bullying, rape, harassment, and of course, and unfortunately, suicide. Hannah, the main character never really was treated like an equal. She had friends but had no  true friends, no one she could turn to if she was ever having problems. Everyone either treated her like someone they could use for her gossip, or because everyone said she was so slutty. Guys harassed her because she was voted "Best ass in freshman class" on a stupid list a "friend" made. Nearly anyone treated her equally, andirons you read the book now, or again it becomes very clear.

       In conclusion, everyone should be treated fairly. I'm talking about race, gender, age, skin color, income, but most of all, the people you know. Some people may  take something you say as a joke, the way you intended it, but in Thirteen Reasons Why all these "jokes" lead to the death of a girl.  I don't think I really have to tell you what the moral of this story is.