What Of This Goldfish Would You Wish By Etgar Keret

If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place (Mike Love). Society judges other beings for what they appear to be. Society wants everyone to be themselves, yet everyone gets judged for not acting “the right way”. According to society, our actions must relate to everyone else's. In other words, we may have to be a copy of what society expects us to be and we may not be an original. However, why be same when we were born to be different? Creating a bond or friendship with someone, having empathy for others, and discovering yourself as an individual are reasons why people should accept others who are different from themselves.

In the story “What of This Goldfish Would You Wish”, Etgar Keret illustrates
Le Guin shares that having empathy for other individuals is a reason why people should welcome everyone who is diverse. The wife’s family was not ordinary, they were wolves. One day, the wife starts to notice obscure actions that her husband would perform at night when the luminous moon was out. Once she saw his “true form”, she called her pack and “her sister’s teeth were in [his] throat. [She] got there and [he] was dead” (19). Le Guin demonstrates that due to fear of the husband’s identity, the wife committed the mistake of liquidated her partner. She lost a loved one because of the misconception of believing her husband was a hostile or inferior to her species since he was different. She believed that if he passed away, the “spell” that caused the werewolf transformation would be unraveled, but that wasn’t the case. She regretted the fact that she had lost her husband for not accepting and understanding that his identity could not be changed. The wife did not accept or embrace her husband’s differences, that is why she was filled with guilt at the end of the day. All inclusive, embracing someone who is a different from you may lead you to having empathy for another