American+Perfection-+Reflection

American Perfection Leads to the Lose of Innocence

When I first started to examine the American, I thought about how as Americans we tend to strive towards perfection. We want what we do not have and what others have, however, once we have everything thing we no longer desire it. Americans seek perfection and we seek to be indivudals, but find ourselves conforming. The strive for our perfection leads to the lose of innocence, we want to be so much more than we can handle that we lose ourselves in the mess. The innocence of childhood is lost by the necessity to grow up to fast, by the enviroment in which kids live in today. In the Bluest Eye, Pecola wishes have blue eyes and blond hair in her mind that is perfection. In her quest for perfection, she looses herself; the little girl she should be. We all have our own desires, wishes, and thoughts of perfection. Is there really such a thing as being perfect, and if so what is your defintion of perfection?

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