Social Injustices

   At first,  I wasn't sure that the books that I'm reading right now are quite based on social injustices. But, when I looked deeper, I found that I was wrong. There are, to some level, social injustices shown subtly throughout both books that I was reading.
   In a book I'm reading called 'An Abundance of Katherine's" I realized an injustice in society. The book is about a child prodigy who has been dumped by nineteen times by nineteen girls named Katherine. The main character, Colin, is trying to figure out why each of the girls dumped him by going on a road trip with his best friend. On the way, he finds out more about himself and understands his feelings more then he ever had before after meeting a girl named Lindsey Lee Wells. In the book, Colin meets to characters named Katrina and Colin (whom they called TOC for The Other Colin). Both of these characters take advantage of Colin, Hassan (his best friend), and Lindsey. This is because Katrina decided to date Hassan to make TOC, who was dating Lindsey, jealous. TOC ends up cheating on Lindsey with Katrina. Colin finds out and TOC attempts to manipulate him into not telling Lindsey. The way TOC and Katrina manipulate and use the main characters in the book is a perfect example of social injustices that occur everyday. When I was in elementary school, everything was a lot easier. There were no complications with friends or relationships. Things were just... better. But, as soon as I got into middle school I realized that things were different. Suddenly, everyone had changed. You had to be careful what you did and said, who you trusted. People gossiped and manipulated others, it was everywhere. I had no idea who my friends were anymore, or who I could trust. In many cases, people who were best friends in middle school, weren't talking anymore because one of them gossiped about the other. A social injustice in todays society, in my opinion, is the way others are manipulated and used for someones gain. Like in "An Abundance of Katherine's", TOC and Katrina didn't even care about Lindsey or Hassan's feelings, they only cared about themselves. I think that the way people treat others as if they are worthless is a social injustice on the behalf of everyone. No one should feel mistreated or used, yet it happens all the time.