Mistreating Those Who Should Be Cared For

In the nonfiction text, “Am I Blue?”, by Alice Walker the theme that caught my attention was mistreatment. The mistreatment that animals face by the hands of humans. “Everything you do to us will happen to you; we are your teachers, as you are ours. We are one lesson” (Walker, p.7). The message that the quote conveys is that whatever you do to another being can or will be done to you.We are all beings just trying to live a peaceful life. We should learn from what surrounds us instead of harming it. Mentioning that animals are our teachers as much as we are theirs really caught my interest…