Q: People often say dont judge a book by its cover.

Describe a time when you misjudged someone based on his or her appearance or when someone misjudged you. As the saying goes, Dont judge a book by its cover. Appearance just means the surface of the body. No matter how beautiful the appearance is, it must gradually fade away as the time goes by. With the increase of the age, the beautiful appearance will gradually disappear and the rest of all is your real value, the heart. We should judge a person by his heart instead of the shallow appearance. If you want to know people correctly, at first, you must learn how to ignore the surface of appearance. We cant understand a person only by its appearance. The following are those people who had been teased because of their appearance. However, they also make others surprise when others really understand them. First, Susan Boyle becomes a famous singer all around the world because of the great comparison between her wonderful sound and her unattractive appearance. Second, in the movie, Shallow Hal, Hal Larson who is the most superficial man in the world, only judge the person by the appearance. What is the power that he changes his mind and falls in love with a fat and plain woman? This movie emphasizes the importance of heart and the inner beauty. Third, Nick Vujicic who is born without four limbs is still optimistic to his life and future. Compared with his disabled appearance, he has the strong and optimistic mind. The famous singer, Susan Boyle, attracted the international attention when she participated a singing competition of the TV program, Britains got talent on 11 April 2009. The contrast between her powerful, wonderful voice and her plain appearance on stage attracted the global attention. At the first moment she stood on the stage, almost all the audience, event including the judges, were teasing her appearance. The Washington Post indicated that her initial behavior and her inconspicuous, homely appearance caused everyone to being waiting for her to squawk like a duck. For Susan, it seemed that she didnt feel surprise at the audiences reaction about her appearance. During her life, it wasnt the first time be teased because her plain appearance. She was the youngest child in her family, and she had briefly lacked of oxygen during a difficult birth and it caused the result in learning disability. When she was a child, she had even been bullied and was nicknamed Susie Simple. From The Washington Post, she had said, Modern society is too quick to judge people on their appearances. There is not much you can do about it; it is the way they are. But maybe this could teach them a lesson, or set an example. Her mother was the main reason that made her bravely to participate in this competition in front of a lot of audience. Her mother urged her to chase her own dream no matter what difficulty she had met. Although, Susan had predicted that she would be teased because of

her appearance, she still decided to chase her dream bravely and stood on the stage in front of the world. The movie, Shallow Hal talks about a man, Hal Larson, who only cares about the appearance of the beauty instead of the heart. He spends all of his time to cost on beautiful girls with his equally shallow friend, Mauricio Wilson, in the pub every night. One day, Hals life totally changes fatefully, when he is trapped in the elevator with the famous hypnotist, Tony Robbins. When Robbins discovers Hals shallow personality of judging people by the appearance, He hypnotizes Hal into only seeing a person from the heart of beauty. If the person has more beautiful heart, he or she will have more beautiful appearance in Hals eye. After few days, Hal met Rosemary Shanahan, the daughter of Steve Shanahan who is the boss of Hals company on the street. At the first sight, Hal falls in love with Rosemary Shanahan, who is a very fat woman. However, she has the kindest and the most generous heart, so, in Hals eyes, she is the most beautiful and slenderest woman in the world. At the beginning, Rosemary thinks that Hal just wants her father s money, however, shes gradually touched by Hal and believe he was the first man who loves her no matter how her appearance is. So, they fall in love immediately. Yet, Hals friend, Mauricio, worries about Hals change, so he asks Robbins to give him the trigger phrase to undo the hypnosis. When Hal is dating with Rosemary, Mauricio calls him and says the trigger phrase Shallow Hal wants a gal. Then, Mauricio talks Hal the truth about Robbins hypnosis. At first, Hal doesnt believe it until he runs into Katrina who initially is beautiful, because of her inner beauty, but now becomes normal and unattractive. Hal begins to avoid Rosemary, because he fear to see her really appearance. Because of some misunderstandings, Rosemary is very sad because of Hals sudden change and she decides to break up with Hal through the phone. Few days later, Hal encounters a young girl named Cadence at the hospital where Rosemary volunteers. The last time, when he came here with Rosemary, due to Robbins hypnosis, in Hals eyes, she was a perfect little girl, however, now he sees there are serve burns on Cadence face. At that moment, Hal really realizes the meaning of the Robbins hypnosis. He shouldnt judge the people by their appearance. From now on, he doesnt need hypnosis to see peoples true inner beauty, hell never judge the people by the appearance. He also realizes that he really loves Rosemary because of her inner beauty and he decides to reconcile with her. At last Rosemary accepts Hal again and they reconcile and are cheered by the crowd as they kiss. Nick Vujicic is born without four limbs, however, he is still optimistic to his life no matter what difficulties he has met. Everyone who sees him at the first sight must feel surprised and sympathy to his disability. After they understand Nick, they feel surprised again to his optimistic attitude to his life. Nick never put himself down

because of his innate disability and he doesnt think that he has any different with others. He lives in the ways just like everyone. He tries to adapt his situation and learns to do everything that we can complete by our hands and feet. Everything isnt easy to complete for him, such as swimming, playing the basketball, taking the bath, washing the teeth and much more. These matters are quiet easy to do for us, however, to our surprise, for Nick, these are also just a piece of cake too. He overcomes the struggles of his life, and now he becomes a motivational speaker. He inspires everyone to face their obstacles bravely by his experience in his life. Nowadays Nicks success owes to his attitude to his life. At the first sight, when people see Nick, theyre surprised by his appearance. Before they really understand him, they have misjudged him by his disabled appearance. They think he must have a miserable life and sympathize to his life. However, he is actually living a life of wonderfulness, and is even much happier than most of people in the world. He doesnt fear for failure in the life. He believes that if we havent given up ourselves, nothing can defeat us. Compared with his disabled appearance, he has the strong and optimistic mind what makes him is still able to enjoy his life no matter what struggles he has met. Under the shallow skin, the heart is the real value of human beings. As the time goes by, the appearance will gradually disappear, however, your heart won t change with the time. We cant see peoples heart from their appearance. Maybe under their beautiful and handsome faces, there are black hearts. However, you never know it from the surface. Some people who havent the beautiful appearance may have the most beautiful heart. Their kind and beautiful is much more attractive than the most beautiful appearance. So, never judge the person by the appearance.