Hands and Day of The Butterfly

After thinking and looking at all the previous literature stuffs that I have learnt before, I decided to do the short stories Hands by Xiao Hong and Day of the butterfly by Alice Munro. I am going to examine on how peer pressures can affect a child’s life especially in their growing up years.

I like both short stories because they deal with children’s issues and even the narrators of both stories are children. I tend to see right away from their point of view. I can also see how their peers influenced each other. These influences can at a stand hurt a person so much. Here, we get to understand some of the children’s world. Although there are so small and innocent, they can be so cruel to their friends. It could be worse when it involve bullies.

However, some of these peer pressures are not so obvious and adult most of the time did not realize it. I think it is quite dangerous for certain core cases because the peer pressures may turn to be a phobia. The children involved can brought it to their adulthood.

Back to ‘Hands’ and ‘Day of the Butterfly’, I think both stories are suitable for students to study besides the values that they can learn from them. These stories are more or less equivalent to the schooling-hood. They perhaps can relate the stories to their live. Both short stories are indeed authentic materials even though they are not the recent publish short stories. I think students can make the lesson as a meaningful one.