Qt. 3 Outside Reading THREE

This week I read a short story in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II titled The Porcelain Bride Doll by Marsha Arons. This story was about how a Jewish girl who would play with her non-Jewish Friend, Katy and they would play pretend wedding with Marsha's Bride doll. One day her friend said, something about how she was one day going to be a beautiful bride like the doll and Marsha said me too but then her friend replied, "Don't be silly. You'll never look like her. You look to Jewish," (Arons, 240). This quote represents how sometimes different religions can be like different cultures and often the difference causes slurs and hatefulness. Her freind Katy flat out said Jewish woman are not as pretty as others and do not make pretty brides. This story also illustrated the differences of morals that can be shown by people from different culture's or religions, Marsha's mother taught her too be strong and not to let things like this affect. I believe she taught her this because her mother probably had many slurs yelled at her and had to grow strong in her childhood. I believe her friend Katy thought it was okay because her parents say things like this because they can not expect people other peoples culture, because her parents probably grew up as a majority religion and have not felt the pain a slur like this can cause. This story preaches just how painful slurs and comments about other peoples cultures can hurt, and should be kept to oneself.