Everyone has insecurities and everyone wants to fit in.We live in a world where people change the way they look and act for others acceptance. Nobody wants to be the odd one and we “wait until someone else does it first”(13) My main focus will be on the poem “Nonconformist” by Angela Shelf Medearis the author talks about how others follow the herd and are too afraid to be themselves . I will explore how the media has a big impact on the way others feel about themselves.
In the poem “Nonconformist” the protagonist is expressing how much of a nonconformist she is by dyeing her hair purple and piercing her nose as a way of expressing her individuality, but ironically she says she’ll wait till someone else does it because she doesn’t want anyone …show more content…
Growing up I’d look up to all these celebrities on my tv screen and always say to myself “I wish I looked like her” or “ I wish I had her hair”, my mind would be so preoccupied with these thoughts, everyday I’d always put so much effort into looking like someone, I’m not, but when I get to school feeling somewhat confident about myself, I’d have one glimpse of the other girls in my school and just feel insecure again. Then the same cycle repeats again and again. I thought to myself that I’d never get out of this cycle of feeling insecure about myself, it felt like I was trapped an ongoing ferris wheel of hating myself. Then my junior high years rolled by, and that's when significant changes in myself and around me started happening. In the beginning of my grade nine year I met these four girls, they were friendly and smart but they were all insecure about themselves. Everyday at lunch they’d go to the washroom and touch up their makeup or fix their hair, and from seeing how much they cared about looking a certain way for other people got me thinking, why do I care so much? what do I gained out of this? I was tired being someone I wasn’t, I like the way I look and I like the way my hair is. I didn’t need celebrities in the media to tell me I needed to look like them to be perfect, I like who I am and I don’t need someone's
In the poem “Nonconformist” the protagonist is expressing how much of a nonconformist she is by dyeing her hair purple and piercing her nose as a way of expressing her individuality, but ironically she says she’ll wait till someone else does it because she doesn’t want anyone …show more content…
Growing up I’d look up to all these celebrities on my tv screen and always say to myself “I wish I looked like her” or “ I wish I had her hair”, my mind would be so preoccupied with these thoughts, everyday I’d always put so much effort into looking like someone, I’m not, but when I get to school feeling somewhat confident about myself, I’d have one glimpse of the other girls in my school and just feel insecure again. Then the same cycle repeats again and again. I thought to myself that I’d never get out of this cycle of feeling insecure about myself, it felt like I was trapped an ongoing ferris wheel of hating myself. Then my junior high years rolled by, and that's when significant changes in myself and around me started happening. In the beginning of my grade nine year I met these four girls, they were friendly and smart but they were all insecure about themselves. Everyday at lunch they’d go to the washroom and touch up their makeup or fix their hair, and from seeing how much they cared about looking a certain way for other people got me thinking, why do I care so much? what do I gained out of this? I was tired being someone I wasn’t, I like the way I look and I like the way my hair is. I didn’t need celebrities in the media to tell me I needed to look like them to be perfect, I like who I am and I don’t need someone's