Beastly

Beastly

          What would you do if you turned into a beast? This is exactly what happens to Kyle Kingsburey, the most popular and handsome guy in school. The beautifully written book Beastly by Alex Flinn, teaches you that inner beauty is much more important than outer beauty.

          “The truth is…only pretty people win! The rest of the world doesn’t matter!” This is exactly what Kyle says to the school, when elected for King at a spring dance. Kyle believes the world revolves around him and his drop dead good looks, he doesn’t dare speak to “uglyies”, as he calls them. We think that Kyle is much worse than us, and he is a little bit, but let’s say a popular, good looking kid walks in the room…would you treat him any different than a non-popular kid with no good looks? This is the million dollar question.

          We look at people from the outside, it’s just our nature. But what’s really important is the inside. Many people are nice, mature and amazing on the inside but we pass over them because we only see the outer part. Well Kyle, since he’s so horrible inside, gets turned into a beast. Kyle gets taught a lesson on how people see him for his true self. The only way to break his curse is if someone can see something in him…if someone can love him even though he’s horrible looking. Eventually Kyle became a different person. He became good, sincere, gentle, thoughtful, romantic and caring. And that brought him Lindy. We need to be like Lindy. She is the one that saw something in Kyle, that saw he was a good person, even though he was a beast, she loved him. Lindy is the perfect example of showing true beautiful captivating love because she just loved him from the inside. To her it didn’t matter what he looked like. And that’s powerful real love.

          As you can see the world thinks that life is a beauty pageant that you need to be beautiful or else people will treat you differently. What people don’t know is outer beauty doesn’t last forever…it fades during the years. What stays is inner beauty. Anyone can fake the outside, by putting makeup on and changing their clothes. But that’s truly not what we need to look for in people.  We need to see the purity and good in the people we care most about, if you just see them from the outside…it’s a lie. That’s exactly what outer beauty is…a big lie, a cover up for how people really are. The story of “Beastly” by Alex Flinn is clearly a lesson on how inner beauty is much more important than outer beauty.