Street Haunting

Keenan Bratcher

Wendy Sumner-Winter

10/11/07

After I read “Street Haunting: A London Adventure” by Virginia Woolf I noticed that there were a lot of different views. I personally consider myself a person who can adapt to any environment around me. In high school I would not sit at a certain table, because I was friends with everyone. Of course I had my best friends who I could trust with my own life and always depend on them. My friends varied between very heavy set good kids to cocky jocks who love to party. In my eyes we are all the same but have different personalities.

Appearances about you are very important in the society today. On television you always see beautiful skinny people selling a product. If you see a person over weight they usually tell you a product that helps you lose weight. If you really think about it we all have flaws on our body that we just dislike or would like to change on us. Another subject that stood out to me was about the dwarf in her story. The dwarf was self conscious about her height. We all are self conscious about our self in ways like height, weight, hair, and teeth.

When you see someone in public you usually judge them an individual by their appearance. Descriptions go through your head about the person like age, sex, gender, and their color. As you meet someone you can’t get to know them off of their appearance, because that’s not who they truly are inside. If you meet me in town you couldn’t notice that I’m self conscious about myself but I am. My personality shows who I truly am instead of what I look like.

I hate when people think they know a person by how they physically look. The dwarf looked different then the other people, but in reality she is more special then the rest of them In the world we live in we should just accept people for who they are, and watch what they can do with their life’s.