Cinder Research Paper

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Although Cinder may be a fictional story, it has many real-world issues that are referenced, such as discrimination against others. Cinder was in an accident where she almost died, and she had to have surgery that made her part cyborg. Because of this, many people discriminate against her for being different from them. Just because someone is different than someone else, doesn't give anybody a right to treat them any less than anybody else. For years, people have been discriminated against because of their race, religion, or gender. Some people may not realize the effect this has on people. Meyers skillfully shows the person who is being discriminated against, Cinder's, point of view, to allow people to connect to real world issues.

Throughout Cinder's life, she is constantly treated unfairly by people who see her and are weirded out by the fact she's a cyborg, and her own stepmother, Adri, who should, like any mother, be cheering on their child, not pushing them down. When Cinder's stepsister fell ill with letumosis, she was very sad, because she loved Peony very much. In response, Adri told her that she wasn't sad, because she can't even cry, because she doesn't have any tear ducts.
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Any half-way decent human being should know not to tell someone else how they feel. However, Adri knows she can get away with this because Cinder is a cyborg, and she believes that that gives her a right to dictate over Cinder and be her very first bully. Secondly, she didn't choose not to cry. She didn't choose to be in a tragic accident. She didn't choose to be burned alive. She didn't choose to die. She didn't choose to be a cyborg and lost her tear ducts. She didn't choose for her sister Peony to get letumosis. She didn't choose any of this, and she most definitely didn't choose to have a life where she is constantly discriminated against for something as small as being a