Review of 'Ali's jump rope'

 

 Our attitude of 'difference' : 'distinction'

Ali has a lot of obstacles. I'm not talking about Muhammad Ali who overcame the circumstance which segregates the Blacks but talk about the young girl 'Ali Kim' who has mix-blood father in a poor family, is discriminated at Korea. These features that is referred at first are facts, but it is a obstacles to Society. Society, at least I can know about it, people who have any barrier can be 'normal' person. They should have same skin, have no obstacle in physical, have no illness, have a normal parents, and have 'normal' academic ability. Additionally, they should don't have any experience of psychiatry. I burst out laughing at our reality that the unusual have to endeavor to join the normal.

Sometimes, We talk 'wrong' instead of 'differ'. So I think we unconsciously think 'differ same with wrong'. I think that kids can't distinguish between 'wrong' and 'differ', so outcasts are frequent to them. Why adult see child as a pure person. Adults may seem to be deceived by child. Answers are same of children. "what he(she) doing is unlucky, and he(she) is strange too. And why you blame only to me? everybody harass too." Because of social circumstance that their fear blame to others, there are assailant who don't feel guilty conscience. So, there is second of Ali, third.. too

Why 'Cassius Marcellus Clay' change his name to 'Muhammad Ali'? Why he should do that? Why 'Michael Jackson' wants white skin, even though he should avoid UV rays? Why though 'Eleanora Harris' has really good voice to move people, she was dying because of drug addiction? Why 'Sarah Baartma' has became a Hottentot Venus? Why Ali's father is excluded from society? What is common with these people? the answer is that they have black skin just it. It is enough discrimination to understand all situations.

After Jenny's death, Ali decides to find 'us'. This book end in such a irony contents. because Ali is excluded from society. My opinion about this book is only one thing. 'We' should become hers 'Us'. We shouldn't look with a jaundiced eye to not make second Ali. Rather, our eyes should be blinded for them. In a society where discriminate people by color, appearance, academic ability, local or gender, we should do it. We should now encase the sacrificial victim as Rene Girard says "a best way for nonviolence is unanimity except sacrificial one."