English 3 Honors
1 May 2014
Conformity.
In the world today, students are expected to be well behaved and follow all rules necessary to rise to the expectations of the school and the world. Students are expected to conform and become something they are not. The fact that students may have two different personalities because of schools and its rules and punishments. All different countries teach students how to think, act and how to follow all rules and expectations given to them. Rules begin when a person is still young, elementary students begin to follow all instructions but in return are awarded, as they grow older it is expected with no award or prize in return. Students lives change as they no longer have freedom and must follow rules at all costs or punishments may occur. Many people argue that schools have rules for the safety and well being of the students and to control them. It may be true that by setting rules and punishments students may behave, listen bettrt and become responsible. Although it is true that student may have better attitudes while following rules like paying more attention and keeping the students controlled. Nevertheless, following the rules takes away from having their own opinion and having their own beliefs. During school students cannot voice their own opinion or what they think. Schools take away the first amendment and students change into someone they are not. It is easy to see that students conform because of school rules and the punishments that follow. By setting rules students conform and cannot think as much as they would like to. The right of freedom of speech applies a lot during school, or in society, for example, in “Farhenheit 451”, Clarisse is a seventeen year old girl who is supposedly odd because she thinks differently from others. In the excerpt the protagonist, Monatag says, “you think to many things,” (Bradbury ¶7). And because of that he finds her strange. Sometimes by voicing ther own opinion