<p>Hey guys it'd be awesome if you helped me out and did a quick score of a practice essay I took out of the blue book test 7! :)</p>
<p>Prompt: Do we need other people in order to understand ourselves? Plan and write...taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.</p>
<p>We need people in order to understand ourselves. Communication and understanding of other people help us see our own moral virtues. This idea is strongly supported in Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". I also learned this idea on my own when I moved to a new school and struggled to make new friends.</p>
<p>In "Huckleberry Finn", Mark Twain showed how effective communication was in understanding oneself. The protagonist, Huck, is set in a racist Mississippi in the 1840's, with nothing but rascist feelings that he grew up with. After traveling down the tranquil river alone with a black slave, Jim, Huck had found out how corrupt his mind had been with rascism, and how he could fix it to be a better person. If he had no communicated with Jim, he would have never have found this issue within him.</p>
<p>The idea of communicating in order to understand oneself is also present in the modern day. A few years ago, when I had moved to a new school 200 miles away from anyone I knew, I was completely alone. Seeing everything as foreign, I cynically judged everyone there to be rude, fake, and overall inferior to my friends from my old school. As I was boiling over these thoughts at lunch one day, counting the years I had left of this place, a small group of kids approached me. With smiles,, they sat down and began to ask me how I liked the school so far. Slowly but surely I began to smile, and I knew that I had just made a friend. This made me see how badly I had misjudged everybody at the school, and it opened my eyes into finally understanding the aphorism "You can't judge a book by its cover." It's hard to imagine what would have become of me if no one had ever communicated with me that day and allowed me to learn this lesson.</p>
<p>In order to truly develop strong moral virtues, communication with others is mandatory. We will never truly be able to understand ourselves if we have no one to help us reflect on ourselves.
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