The Seed of Hope

This week in class we read two prologues from The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison.  In the second prologue, it explains the important details of the story so the readers can focus of the novel and not on their emotions.  The second prologue also talks about hope which reminded me of how Captain America is the "seed" of hope when an evil organization with intentions of taking over the world, HYDRA, plans to take over SHIELD.

When HYDRA is about to take over SHIELD, everything is in chaos.  HYDRA is about to win and all the SHIELD agents have lost all hope.  When everything looks grim, Captain America comes along and delivers a really inspiring speech that gives the agents confidence that they have a chance of defeating HYDRA.

The two sisters in the prologue have also lost all hope, except no one is there to bring that hope back.  The word "seed" in this passage represents hope. They said they searched everywhere but the seeds "did not sprout."  After a while, they came to a conclusion that it was not the seeds fault that they didn't grow, but the Earth's.  They believed that no matter how much hope for change they have, it will never grow because society is unwilling to accept it.

I don't believe that is true.  No one has really stood up to the societal standard of beauty so it is unfair to say that society won't accept this change.  One of the sisters even says that "if we planted the seeds, and said the right words over them, they would blossom, and everything would be all right."  This is exactly what Captain America did during the HYDRA attack and this is exactly what we as a society need to do in order to make a change in the way we see beauty.