The Book’s Cover

Every day people are judged on his or her first appearances, and usually there are wrongly judged. The theme of the story “ The Yellow Sweater” suggests that same idea: one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The one doing the judging in this story is “Tom”: he wrongly judges the girl, himself and the yellow sweater. Let’s examine the final outcomes of these superficial judgments. Most often one has a tendency to …

…He also wrongly judged himself as being powerful when in fact he was nothing but a fat frightened old man. And he wrongly judged the yellow sweater by thinking it wasn’t important, but it came back to show him he should be ashamed about what he tried to do with the girl. In all, no one should judge a book by its cover because chances are one would be far away from the truth.