Hello class, my name is Matthew Sanchez, and my novel is Babbitt, written by Sinclair Lewis. In this Novel the main character George Babbitt is a man in his late forties working a job as a lawyer in the 1920s. While he has a job and a family, Babbitt is dissatisfied with his life. He has become so dissatisfied with his life that he has started making up another world and people in his head where he feels young and handsome, because of this he has become bored of his mundane life as a lawyer and a father.

The idea of an ideal man has polluted the mind of almost everyone. We are lead to believe that the ideal man must be tall, handsome, tone, wears the best clothes, has the best hair or facial hair, for him to be attractive beyond belief. What has lead us to believe this is social media, magazines, and blogs. We think that if a man does not have this quality or does not look like this or that you should not even associate with him.

According to a study "published in the January issue of JAMA Pediatrics, reveals that nearly 18 percent of boys are highly concerned about their weight and physique." While this is not necessarily a big number it is still a larger percentage than it should be. According to the US teen demographics there are 41,731,233 adolescent teens in America currently, and if we take the male to female percentages there are approximately 20.5 million adolescent boys are currently living in America. Which means 3.69 million boys in America are feeling subconscious about their bodies, and be cause of this many of them can become depressed, and have anxiety about how they look at all times.

We as people should not be putting this weight on boys because it can damage them as they grow up. We have had campaigns to stop using photoshop in the media, or to have more "plus size" models to be represented in the media. We focus on what women are going through but we forget that men can go through the same problems.