Summary Of Good Kings By Rigoberta Men

Comparisons of sensitivity between the older generations and younger generations, specifically millennials and younger, have arisen in the past decade. Older generations claim that younger generations get upset too easily, or they always have something to argue. And although sensitivity is often thought of disdainfully, it is beneficial. The younger generations empathize with victims of inequality and fights for those who need help. They get the world talking about social change, and paying attention to issues the world previously pushed aside. Technology including the internet and mass production of literature have become a way to spread news and come together to fight against something that needs the world’s attention. Both Rigoberta Menchú, author of I, Rigoberta Menchú, and Susan Nussbaum, author of Good Kings, Bad Kings, have joined in the movement of spreading their issues worldwide to invoke a response. Menchú targets the inequality of indigenous groups in Guatemala, and Nussbaum directs her attention to the treatment of people with disabilities. As
Using multiple different characters with drastically different personalities, Nussbaum presents the readers with glimpses of all sides of each story. One perspective is shown through Michelle when Nussbaum wrote, “But the work I do is important because I’m getting people off the streets and into warm beds with three meals a day and medical care” (Nussbaum 25). Michelle works for Whitney-Palm Health Solutions and believes she is doing the right thing by getting people with disabilities off the streets and into a place that cares for them. However, Nussbaum quickly shows the audience why Michelle is wrong by showing the effect of one of the girls she placsd in the ILLC. Nussbaum