Each Wemmick has a box of gold stars and a box of grey dots that they hand out throughout the day. Each and every day the Wemmicks do the same thing – they hand out stickers. Eli carves each and every wooden person yet he allows them all to look different and possess varying traits. In Max Lucado’s children’s book “You Are Special” Lucado creates an allegorical world full of wooden people called Wemmicks who live in a town where every single person is carved by a man named Eli. Imagine being branded and therefore being forced to wear the title of better than or less than. Imagine wearing the thoughts, feelings and judgements of others outwardly. The gold stars in fact are handed out to people who don’t have grey dots simply to award them for being better, while grey dots are given to anyone with no stars to remind them of what they lack.
The gold stars are awarded to the best looking and most talented individuals while the grey dots are given to those whose looks are deemed unworthy and whose talents are seen as lacking in merit.
Imagine living in a world where the social currency is gold stars and grey dots.
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