Dreams, Hopes and Inspiration

After watching the video of Susan Boyle on “Britain’s got Talent”, it reminded me of the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover.” When Susan Boyle and Paul Potts both went up stage the reaction of the audience and the judges as well as mine, was that they were just another funny act of people who couldn't’t sing, but when they sang their hearts out everyone was caught by surprise. Instead of laughing and scoffing at them the audience starts cheering and supporting them. As I listened to them, I was thinking that how they had gone through a lot in life and how their dreams have been put on hold for so many years because of their appearance. I think that shows like Britain got talent is a huge window of opportunity for people like Susan and Paul who have faced many obstacles in life whilst following their dreams. This video also connects to the Blokes by Alan Gibbons because in the blokes everybody judged Hashim, the new refuge boy by his appearance and background. He was not the same as everybody else he was not from England and he was Muslim and that's what made him an target. His difference. Its the same with Susan Boyle and Paul Potts both of them didn't have the best appearance and they were different, that's why everyone miss judged them

This shows that the community first judge’s people by their appearance and social status, for example Susan Boyle was from a small village and Paul Potts was a small cell phone salesman. But this teaches us that people are not who they seem, they can be much, much greater that what their appearance tells us and that we should give everyone a fair chance at their dreams. This type of judgment occurs in most off our daily lives when people only see what’s one the outside and miss what’s important that’s, on the inside of a person. If you don’t have a good look or some sort of high social status you are not counted as worthy to pursue their dreams. This is a totally wrong way of thinking for the community, and it needs to be changed because there are many talented people out there that are waiting for a chance to be discovered. I think that these videos have over 44 million viewers because people are inspired by them. They show people that it’s not what’s on the outside that matters but what’s on the inside and that it is never to late to follow your dream.

I think that Langston Hughes poem is a great metaphor for the two videos of Susan Boyle and Paul Potts. It shows that dreams are very vulnerable and delicate and crushed. I think that using the words “Bring me all your hearts melodies” Shows that peoples dreams are like melodies that brings joy to them in their hearts, and “ too- rough fingers” is a metaphor for how cynical and insensitive the world can be too peoples dreams. And Blue cloth may be suggesting the idea of an opportunity for you to pursue your dreams and save them from being shattered by the world.