Day of the Butterfly

Picture yourself as a child; did you ever think on how you got your reputation? Dreadfully for Myra Sala the main character in the short story “Day of the butterfly,” by Alice Monroe that is the case. Her reputation is based off her brother who is more than a handful of embarrassment, as well as her poor hygiene and this unfortunately puts her life into a torturing tragedy.

A reputation in school and in life is a big thing; everyone wants to be on the top of the social pyramid. People often get their reutation because of their last name, how they look, or even how rich they are, but honestly let's wake up here people! Reputations shouldn’t be based off that pathetic nonsense; they should be based off how that person treats you as well as what their personality is like. Looking at Myra her reputation isn’t at the top of that social pyramid, because her reputation is determined by others on how she looks/dresses, which isn’t the best, all the way to her innocent little brother who unfortunately still poops his pants at school. For judgmental people (majority of people) out there, try considering not being so judgmental and maybe take the time to know someone you normally wouldn’t try to be a friend of , and find out what a unique person they really turn out to be. Otherwise trying to be friends with them at the last second when the going gets tough for them, most likely you fall into the role of Helen, an exceptionally fake friend and watch an innocent person in Myra live a tragedy.

Even though this story isn’t a perfect tragedy it still falls into this category more than any other mode of literature. As any tragedy is this is realistic for the fact that people get their reputation for pathetic reasons as Myra did. Tragediess always teach lessons, and this lesson is to not be so judgmental of people, because hypothetically you could be the one with poor reputation, determined by pathetic reasons. The first indent in a category is that the main character Myra is in a conflict, the conflict is that she just wants to be looked at as a normal person and not a girl with a lousy hygiene, and a brother that poops his pants. Although Myra does not have a to rise power she does have three other key important characteristics of a tragedy. Her tragic flaw, Myra’s tragic fall is that she gets leukemia and is in what most people consider the hospital, but for Myra it’s being caged up with no hope and nowhere to go . As a final point this short story end in death or death symbolism which is Myra being left in the hospital by her classmates, all alone except nurses in a huge building with no light to shine on her. Though a sad ending to the story, it isn’t the end of the world.

When you see what kind of situation Myra was in it is sad to see it, but then again there are other ones who may be within your corridor. Who knows maybe in the future you could one of those persons or not. Maybe you could take the time to know someone like that and find out who they really are on the inside and not the outside. Maybe you could help someone not go down the road Myra did.