The book The Other Side reviles a deeper meaning to the audience than what is portrayed. The author’s message to the children is not to judge people by what they look like, but to judge them from what their personalities are. “That’s all ways the way it’s been”, both the mothers in the story said this. Therefore, they are saying that’s how everyone’s done it and that’s the way it will all ways be. The author’s message to the adults in this story is to not teach their kids the bad stuff that has been going on generation after generation, but to teach them the nice stuff