<p>Do we need other people in order to understand ourselves? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience or observations.</p>
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<p>Yes, we need other people in order to understand ourselves as demonstrated by The 23rd by Hewlet Bechan and the famous activist, Frederick Douglass.</p>
<p>In the book, The 23rd, a teenager drops out of high school and enters the working world. As he looks for jobs, he blindly refuses to contact any employer simply because he believes he is too good for the jobs. He gained a sense of superiority and arrogance, which eventually leads to his downfall as he gets gang beaten for mocking the working class. Shortly after that, he crosses eyes with his father ad runs away in burning tears. His father follows and comforts him. Only then, he realizes that he has been arrogant all along and was no better than anyone else was. In the very shadows of the city, he found out no one cared for him but his father. The teenager would have never changed his mind if he were to never meet him; he would just be even more sentimental, eating away his own life slowly and dying without purpose. Therefore, according to The 23rd, we need others in order to understand ourselves.</p>
<p>Another example of why we need others to understand ourselves is the famous activist Frederick Douglass. Although he was pro-womens rights, he never believed that women were equal enough to own property like their husbands. However, the question was brought up during a convention, which he attended. He stood sharply, glaring at the crowd until a woman rose from her chair and protested that although women do not earn money, they take care of the family and further improve the cult of domesticity as prescribed by George Washington. Frederick soon then realized that he has been biased all along. He finally believed the both the husband and wife share an inseparable bond and changed his mind. If the woman were never to get up and protest, the womens progressive movement surely would have slowed down dramatically. Therefore, we need others in order to understand ourselves as demonstrated by Frederick Douglass.</p>
<p>Indeed, we need others to understand ourselves owing to the teenager in The 23rd and activist Frederick Douglass. Both realized their arrogance and developed a much crisper, clearer perception of society. Without the people who helped them think these ways, both would have engulfed themselves into nothing. Everything happens for a reason. Let people come into your life, as there is always a lesson to be learned and always a realization to be realized.</p>
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<p>So, out of 12, what do you think and why?
Thank you!</p>
Good luck!</p>