Influencing Change

There are so many things today that are influencing our lives, and for the most part not even good things. Celebrity's and the media is what influences our lives, we try to be like the models on tv, or in magazines, or try to look as pretty as the girls off of music videos. Today people are doing so many drastic things, which is making our society look horrible. Today, in real life when people write about things that matter, like racism people could care less, they would rather be pretty than be considerate and nice to people.

In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" it deals a lot with racism. White against black. A black man got accused of doing something he did not do, and when he went to court and everybody knew the truth, he was still guilty just for the simple reason he had colored skin. When I read this book, I felt so bad for the man who was known as guilty for doing absolutely nothing but being born with colored skin. It's just not fair, it's not even his fault that his color is the color is, he did not have control over it.

I think for so many people life would be so much more easier for some if the lessons taught in literature or films could influence our lives today. Just think back to the book , the right people would be in jail, or the right people would have died, but instead they would rather have the person who did wrong be free because of their color.

I wish there could be a change to our society, and that be everyone equal, and without a celebrity or the media having to make the change, but just a regular everyday person. I wish our society was not influenced so easy by the fake, and just let literature take over, the real meaning , and reality take over.