The Great Gatsby Open Minded Examples

“One Mississippi…From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four seconds than to five.” (Michael Lewis-). One commonly agreed upon notion is a world at peace; this can happen when you’re not quick on judging in life and being open- minded. In the poem “Mending Wall,”1914 by Robert Frost, The children’s book The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson and the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, all have in common is that there are characters in each who are open-minded. An example of this is when in the novel the Great Gatsby, the character Nick was always open-minded, he sates this when he said- “in my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
The saying that we all know from when we were younger about how sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will never hurt us, is a complete lie. Just by saying a nice word can make someone’s day go from hell to them feeling like they can overcome the difficult day, but that can be the total opposite too. Someone may be having a wonderful day, seeing how nothing could go wrong, until someone is quick to judge them, and their day can dramatically change from a good day, to a day where they start down grading themselves, sometimes to the point where they may not even want to live anymore. This relates to my life because so many people these days are quick to judge and jump to conclusions before they know all the facts. For instance in the book the Blind Side by Michael Lewis, many people in the society are very quick to judge character Michael Oher. He’s big, tall, black, practically homeless, is going to a very nice school, and his mother is a drug addict and abuses alcohol. Michael is a very smart young man, many just think that “he was ignorant, but a lot of people mistake ignorance for stupidity and knowingness for intelligence.” (Lewis -). Michael was being judged every day because of where he came from, he was different from everyone else, and that the school that he was attending was
For instance one of the little girls “Momma said don’t climb over the fence when you play, it isn’t safe.” (Woodson -). Being different from others can be hard especially when you’re a child not really knowing what is going on in the world. These two girls were different because of their race and that they were in different socail classes, but that never stopped them from talking to each other. “My mamma says I shouldn’t go on the other side...My mama says the same thing. But she never said nothing about sitting on it.” (Woodson -). Both their moms never said anything when the two girls would sit on the fence and just look around and talk. Deceny plays a big part in life; and these two girls never made a big fuss about it because life to them was simple, becasue all they wanted to do is have fun and be a kid. However in today’s society, things like this don’t really happen anymore because kids these days aren’t outside playing in the mud, but instead sitting inside playing on iphones, ipods, ipads, and playing video games all day long in their free time. I remember when I was younger that I was always outside playing in the mud, running through the woods bare foot, riding dirt bikes, four wheelers, and just having fun being a kid. Honeslty thats all these two little girls cared about, was having