These students pushed aside their previous judgements of one another for one day and saw they could all relate in some way. The Breakfast Club is the movie I believe belongs with the works passed to college students through the future. My second selection for the canon is the song What it s Like by Everlast. This song goes back to the saying don t judge a book by it s cover. The first verse talks about a homeless man begging for change and how people just pass him by.
People stare, then turn their heads thinking they are better than that man is.
The refrain states the person walking by should walk a mile in that man s shoes to see what it s like. The next verse is about a girl meeting the man of her dreams and that girl getting pregnant. At first he s there to support her but soon stops calling and leaves her. She s faced with a difficult decision and decides to have an abortion. Society ridicules her and calls her a sinner and a whore.