Introduction
“Waste, a Country Fair Tale” is the story of a transformation of the childish perception of the world. (Hall, 156) Kids are learning to evaluate the world, communicate with the surrounding people, and believe in their fantasies. Surely, one of the aspects of the story is the love of the human body, while Tres learns to love his lazy eye, and his sister learns to accept him from another perspective. The aim of the paper is to reflect on the matters of the story and analyze the key elements of the story from the perspective of reflective perception. Therefore, similar aspects may be found in stories about kids who are involved in studying the world.
Reflection
The topic sentence of the story is based on the fact that kids were given a dollar each for they could spend it at their own discretion. They have selected to spend it attending a bar, where disabled women worked as a singer. A particular interest of the kids towards that woman was stipulated by the fact that kids wished to see something incredible and interesting, that was out of this world. The “half-woman”, as they call her, is a person that does not fit their representation of normal life and normal world. They have numerous questions associated with her, and they are intended to get answers even if this will cost them everything they have – a dollar.
Tres is diagnosed with a lazy eye. This sounds strange, as lazy sounds abusive in a farmer’s family. However, while the others are punished for laziness, Tres’ eye is accepted as something normal by his parents, his sister, and the surrounding world. Therefore, children get to know that even pathologies may be within the frames of the norm. Still, disabled women without legs make the deepest impression on them.
Getting to know that disabled people exist, kids learn a hard lesson. It is hard because of the consequences. They stop dreaming about fairy tales, while fair tales come instead. As a rule, this may be regarded as a normal course of kids’ growing, as they learn to accept the surrounding world as is. Hence, they do not dream of a fairy tale any longer, and they do not wish to see the different worlds, as they have already seen the real one. These emotions and impressions are closely linked with the ability to be tolerant towards other people, tactful while communicating with disabled people, as well as sympathetic when meeting a disabled person. Considering the fact that the actual importance of unpleasant emotions is explained by the process of forming the world perception, the story describes the course of gradual modification of this perception within kids. They have studied to see the world without pink glasses, which is quite an important step in the growing process.
Conclusion
Reflection, associated with the “Waste, a Country Fair Tale” is based on the fact, that kids had to study the real world, and get rid of their fairy tale dreams. This became the necessary step in their growing process, as this is helpful enough for communicating with the surrounding people. Therefore, they studied that a lazy eye is something normal and not abusing, while a half-woman is a human-like they are, however, she does not have legs.
Work Cited
Hall, Leilani. Waste, A County Fair Tale. WordTech Communications, Chicago. 2005.