Fix by Leslie Margolis

Significance- I think that this work matters because the author is trying to say is that you don't need to have somehting done to you to make you better or prettier. You should feel good about yourself and if you do then you are a beautiful person on the inside and that is what matters. You shouldn't have to get something done to your body to make you feel prettier because you will want more and more. And usually people that get ALOT of plastic surgery done to there body like nose jobs and face lifts they end up looking fake and ugly and you know how much that person cares about how they look. I chose to read this book because it seemed to be interesting and I thought it would have a good message inside it. I think that the author should have been a little more clear on the message because I think someone that didn't know what the message was would end up think that that was an okay way to think.

Perspective- The author of this book ( I think) was against caring so much about what you look like, but thought that you should also care about how you look, but not as much as the caracter in the book. This book was written about to people. Each chapter would change to the other person. One was VERY concerned about her looks. But the other person didn't really care about how she looked. But they are sisters. So the older one had a nose job done at the age of 15. Her younger sister was going to get one also but everyone assumed that she wanted it done. In the end she never gets it done though. If I needed to explain this to someone alot younger than me I would say that there are some people in the world that think that having all the cute clothes and that having a perfect nose and perfect face and everything is important. There is a surgery that can fix that or you. And some people will risk having painful side effects that may or may not last forever, or risk dying just to look better.

Evidence- The reason the author wrote the book was because she wanted teens to know that looks aren't everything. And she wants teens to stop thinking that. The author put alot of information on all of the side affects of having plastic surgery done. Like how the recations for different people are for anesthesia. How someone is barely affected by it and how some people 's body does it do what ever your body does with it and how people die. Even though that hardly ever happens.

Connection- This has affected people since about 700 B.C.E. The Ancient Indians would make skin graphs for reconstructive work as early as the 8th century B.C.E. Ofcourse it wans't like it is today, like not liking your nose and getting it "fixed". This can connect to my life because I am a very self-contious person, but I would never think about going under the knife. Where as I have a very close friend who has a nose that is slightly pointed but she cannot stand that. And I remember a long time ago that she said, "As soon as I am old enough I will get a nose job." I don't know if she still fells that way but I don't want her to think that it is really that important.

Supposition- If plastic surgery was never invented or thought of or anything. Then I would think that there would be less people concerned about how they look. But this would also be not such a good thing because there are people with a cleft palate. That is something that someone would want fixed. So those people would end up going through life with that. But looks wouldn't be as important so it wouldn't matter on how it looked. Or breast reduction surgery where they are causing a women back pain. Or if you have cancer. But plastic surgery should be for functional things and not things that don't need to be done.