To anyone who has ever felt like they need to change themselves to fit in with others,
in the beginning of the book Gulliver’s Travels Gulliver ended up on an island that has a very small kingdom. everything is small: the animals, the plants the, houses even the people. Gulliver was held against his will for a little while and had to conform to what the Lilliputans wanted to get his freedom. He fought for them, worked for them and did whatever they wanted him to do. If he did not they would not accept him and let him live (chapter I). Gulliver finds himself on an island with giants, they are 60 feet tall while we are only 5 to 6 feet tall. They all think Gulliver is fragile and not important. But to the others he was hug and almost invincible. They treat him like he is worth nothing and give him to a child to take care of him and do whatever that want with him. (chapter I). Gulliver then finds himself with horses. They are a very educated race, they focus on math astronomy and music. they have a perfect society. This perfect place ruins the real world for Gulliver and he cannot go back to functioning in the real world.(chapter III)
My personal connection was me feeling like the odd one out, I chose this because Gulliver was always the odd one out when he found himself on those strange islands. I used to switch schools a lot, everywhere I went there were different kids. I feel like I changed myself very often to fit in to the different environments. this is high school, there are kids everywhere that don’t feel like they fit in with others so they change themselves to fit a standard, sometimes it feels like that is the only thing to do to fit in with other people. I have seen kids who do not have friends change themselves in hopes of makings some. I have seen so many people think having tons of friends is all that matters, but they don’t get to actually be themselves. What’s the point of all of the that if you can’t be happy as yourself? There is a thing called an alternative lifestyle, people will go out and live there life exactly the way they want to because they do not fit the everyday person’s life. They make their own.
I am writing this to show people that a perfect person does not exist, you could be the best you possible and there will still be someone who thinks you are nothing. The purpose of this letter is to show others that there is not a set standard for a perfect person. This book showed me that being your own person is very important. There are people out there who will go against everything you. we are all different so the perfect race does not actually exist. The houyhnhnms did not believe in having anything different about themselves. They were the perfect race, no war, no lying, no crime, jealous or hate. The real world has all of those things. But what’s the point of all of us being the same? be your own person and live a life the way you think it should be lived.
