Ahern's Flawed Quotes

Ahern demonstrates that labels have an impact on how others affect other people by being biased. The old man, whose name is Clayton Byrne, was the man coughing on the bus that nobody would help. And the reason for this was because he was flawed and looked down upon (Ahern 44). This event in the novel shows how people are being prejudiced towards others who have been labeled in a negative way. If the old man wasn’t labeled Flawed, people would have helped him. The two ladies who took his seat would have stood up for him. But because of his label, people just turned a blind eye to him, just to let him die. In real life, when people are labeled as ugly, worthless, immigrant or sensitive, when they are in trouble or in need of help, people choose not to

I feel her small hands around my arms. Her nails dig into me. My dress falls to my feet, and I’m left standing in my bra and underwear in the shed” (Ahern 219). This event proves how biased people are to the Flawed, by the experience Celestine had to go through when they kidnapped her. Because of their bias, they humiliated her by forcing her to take off her dress. And the reason for this was because she was branded Flawed. There were so many more unimaginable things that they did to her that could break a person. If they weren’t so prejudiced towards the Flawed, then they would have never thought that it was okay to do those things to Celestine. This experience occurs in real life too when people’s own biases and opinions on others get in their head, making them think it is okay to treat a person with this much disrespect. All in all, people are unfair towards the people who have a bad label, and that unfairness can lead to a point where it can destroy that labeled person’s life. In conclusion, the book “Flawed” by Cecilia Ahern manifests how labels affect people’s sense of their own identities and how others are biased towards other people because of what they are labeled