Plaits

In the story Plaits, from the book, The Mee Street Chronicles, by Frankie Lennon, the idea of beauty is brought to my mind. In the story, the narrarator discusses how she doesn't like her hair and how she wants hair like Shirley Temple's beautiful blonde curly hair. One night, Frankie, the narrator, gets so fed up with her plaits that she decided to cut her hair. But in a matter of time, Frankie realized that she made a mistake and that her hair turned out looking worse than it was to begin with.

After reading Plaits, I am now more aware how much media is affecting our society. The media gives us images of beautiful girls that we all want to look like and many girls suffer to try and look like them. But it shouldn't matter because beauty comes from within a person. I would much rather be ugly on the outside and pretty on the inside than vice versa.