Analysis Of Kim Fu's 'For Today I Am A Boy'

Many parents/teachers believe conforming to society is important in order to promote maximum efficiency in human behavior. This idea is only partially true because children can conform to society in a negative way. In For Today I am a Boy, Kim Fu’s purpose is to make the argument that young children should be taught that conforming to negative social pressure causes them to have involuntary actions and irrational thinking. Social pressure can have a negative connotation because of the way it promotes racial bias for people with accents, justification of physical harm, and the way it forces people to commit crimes such as rape. Fu wants the reader to understand that if children are taught the effects of conforming to negative social pressure