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On the front cover of Glamour magazine stands a six foot tall, blonde haired, blue eyed model. Her teeth are a pearly white and her skin appears to be flawless, not an ounce of fat remains on her perfectly toned body. Everyday Americans are exposed to these types of people who appear “flawless” or “perfect”. Those with the perfect bodies, the perfect smiles, the tiny little waist and long legs. It makes everyone strive for these types of perfect bodies. That is also why sometimes it is so hard for people to be able to accept imperfections of there own. Everyone has imperfections, physical and mental. Those models on the front cover of magazines have imperfections, maybe not seen in a picture after touch ups, or mental imperfections which will not be found out just looking at her. It is through the experiences of the people in these stories which show many different ways people feel imperfect. In Maya Angelou’s Uncle Willie, Uncle Willie teaches the reader how hard it is to be different in society. He seems to be the laugh of the beer drinking poor crowd. Uncle Willie had been crippled since he was a child when he was dropped on his head. He accepted the way he was and rarely felt bad about himself, “Only once in all the years of trying not to watch him, I saw him pretend to himself and others that he wasn’t lame.” (Angelou p 83) For once in his life he wanted to be accepted in society, just once!
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