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Life's Scar Analysis

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I. Introduction A. The choicest garb, the sweetest grace are oft to strangers shown; The careless mien, the frowning face are given to our own.” B. The use of imagery in Life’s Scars by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, an American author and poet, highlights the idea of how we treat the ones we love compared to the way we treat strangers.

II. Body A. If we compare the way we treat our loved ones to the way we treat strangers, you will see our tendency to become careless. 1. “The careless mien, the frowning face are give to our own and deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who loves us best.” The author used these lines to give us a mental image on how we treat our loved ones. 2. It shows us how we treat our loved ones with negative this such as being rude to them or taking them for granted. It shows how we are guilty of giving careless or frowning faces to our loved ones. But most importantly, how we treat our …show more content…

Conclusion
A. We are different in dealing with strangers compared to those we love. Strangers and our loved ones are two completely different types of people in our life and we treat them as such.
B. The importance of strangers compared to those we love is completely different. We treat strangers the way we do because they have yet to gain importance in our lives and add to our network of friends and family. On the other hand, we treat the ones we love the way we do because we know that they love us and will always be there for us.
C. Though we do this, we still have no right to treat the ones we love this way. This is a universal problem in how we express things. We become troubled and instead of being direct, we do other things that we may not have known could cause problems. We should use the lesson we learn from the poem on how we treat people as an example for change. To not take for granted those whom we love and to treat strangers with equal

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