Quotation Interpretation Essay
Naudia Sanchez
AP Literature and Composition
Mrs. Harrison
3 September 2014
Quotation Interpretation Essay
Judging a Book By It’s Cover
The quote that I am choosing is “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” By
Mother Teresa. To me this quote means people usually jump the gun and just judge a person by the way the look. Which by experience is very true.
Just look at the youth in middle school. Usually children pick their friends by what they are wearing and how they act. Most of the time children stay with people of the same skin color just because they feel more comfortable that way.
For example the book How To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus Finch was defending Tom Robinson because he believes in equal rights. The reason Tom has to go to court is because they assumed that Tom did what the white women said he did because they are judging him by his skin color. The first thought that goes through their heads is black people are automatically guilty.
Another example is how women are seen in society. Like if a woman is a CEO of a company she is seen as bossy because her workers (mostly men) see her as only someone who runs the meetings; usually no one tries to have a one on one conversation with her.
I sometimes even have a problem with judging people based on what’s on the outside and on rumors that I hear. It’s almost like an instinct for us as human beings to judge others the
moment they see them. Its kind of like trying to find someone that is fit enough for them to have some sort of relation with; survival of the fittest. Thats the reason why there is so much violence in the world; you are going to pick on someone that you find weak and relentless when in reality they are stronger than appear to be. No matter what people say they still judge others whether it be negative or positive that's just what we do as human beings.
But of course not everyone is the same and not everyone judges other people, but
AP Literature and Composition
Mrs. Harrison
3 September 2014
Quotation Interpretation Essay
Judging a Book By It’s Cover
The quote that I am choosing is “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” By
Mother Teresa. To me this quote means people usually jump the gun and just judge a person by the way the look. Which by experience is very true.
Just look at the youth in middle school. Usually children pick their friends by what they are wearing and how they act. Most of the time children stay with people of the same skin color just because they feel more comfortable that way.
For example the book How To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus Finch was defending Tom Robinson because he believes in equal rights. The reason Tom has to go to court is because they assumed that Tom did what the white women said he did because they are judging him by his skin color. The first thought that goes through their heads is black people are automatically guilty.
Another example is how women are seen in society. Like if a woman is a CEO of a company she is seen as bossy because her workers (mostly men) see her as only someone who runs the meetings; usually no one tries to have a one on one conversation with her.
I sometimes even have a problem with judging people based on what’s on the outside and on rumors that I hear. It’s almost like an instinct for us as human beings to judge others the
moment they see them. Its kind of like trying to find someone that is fit enough for them to have some sort of relation with; survival of the fittest. Thats the reason why there is so much violence in the world; you are going to pick on someone that you find weak and relentless when in reality they are stronger than appear to be. No matter what people say they still judge others whether it be negative or positive that's just what we do as human beings.
But of course not everyone is the same and not everyone judges other people, but