Today we as humans are always so quick to judge others and give titles, there is always a need to have “good guy” and along comes a “bad guy.” When in all reality we are all just trying to be the “good guy” in our own way. Weather it may be morals and religion that make us believe that what we are doing is the right thing to do or simply learning that something is correct based on family, society, and what we are taught to believe is right. We are all always striving to please someone. We as humans who make mistakes shouldn't be so quick to give someone a title based on what we think is right. We are all only human and want nothing more than to please someone in some way or another. In the poem Latin Women Pray by Judith Ortiz the young Latin woman praying doesn't really know if the God she is and has been praying to, her whole life can really understand her or her fellow sisters, but that by no means stops her from praying to him. Why? Because that is how she was raised to pray to him despite her not knowing if he could really understand them. The young Latin woman knew that this not only made the God she was praying to happy, but she knew it made her family happy as well. In the short story “ Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway the young woman is forced to do …show more content…
Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates we see another young woman trying to please not only her own family and her friends, but a random stranger named Arnold Friend as well! She was just a typical teenager just trying to fit in and please the ones around her and we later find out that trying to please other people isn't always in our best interest because this guy Arnold Friend ended up persuading her to go with him somewhere where she had never been before and promised her a good time. Connie already felt as if she had let her family down because she was constantly being compared to her sister so she fell into his