Something To Appreciate Or Despise Analysis
Adversity- Something to Appreciate or Despise?
BANG! A gun is fired from down the hall, and one can hear the panicked screams of children and adults alike. There is a shooter in the school. You only have a minute at most before the shooter makes his way down to your classroom. It’s too late for a lockdown. Children are crying and you can’t calm them down. You feel like wailing and crawling under your desk like the child in the corner is doing, but you can’t. You’re the adult in this situation and you have to act like it. The door is turning. You freeze. The shooter steps into the room and you feel like hell just froze over. Why? Because the shooter is your son. The man you spent 15 hours in labor with is now pointing a gun at you. Why? Because you’re standing in front of a class of 25 first graders refusing to let him …show more content…
In every good story ever written, there needs to be a protagonist and an antagonist. Not everyone can be the teacher who sacrificed herself so that her students would live. While there are the Victoria Leigh Soto’s in the world, there are also the Adam Lanza’s, Dylan Klebold’s and the Eric Harris’s. People like them, as horrible as they might be, were once the protagonists of their own stories. We don’t personally know the struggles that any of them had to go through or who the antagonists in their lives were. What we do know, however, is that each of them reacted negatively to their own experiences, choosing to continue the vicious cycle of violence instead of channeling it into something of greater good. Often times, kids who get bullied go on to bully other children as well. Children who go on to become the bully themselves are one reason why Horace is not 100% correct in saying that adversity elicits many talents that would have otherwise been unknown had one’s life been prosperous. By pushing their personal experiences on others, they are portraying harmful characteristics that should remain
BANG! A gun is fired from down the hall, and one can hear the panicked screams of children and adults alike. There is a shooter in the school. You only have a minute at most before the shooter makes his way down to your classroom. It’s too late for a lockdown. Children are crying and you can’t calm them down. You feel like wailing and crawling under your desk like the child in the corner is doing, but you can’t. You’re the adult in this situation and you have to act like it. The door is turning. You freeze. The shooter steps into the room and you feel like hell just froze over. Why? Because the shooter is your son. The man you spent 15 hours in labor with is now pointing a gun at you. Why? Because you’re standing in front of a class of 25 first graders refusing to let him …show more content…
In every good story ever written, there needs to be a protagonist and an antagonist. Not everyone can be the teacher who sacrificed herself so that her students would live. While there are the Victoria Leigh Soto’s in the world, there are also the Adam Lanza’s, Dylan Klebold’s and the Eric Harris’s. People like them, as horrible as they might be, were once the protagonists of their own stories. We don’t personally know the struggles that any of them had to go through or who the antagonists in their lives were. What we do know, however, is that each of them reacted negatively to their own experiences, choosing to continue the vicious cycle of violence instead of channeling it into something of greater good. Often times, kids who get bullied go on to bully other children as well. Children who go on to become the bully themselves are one reason why Horace is not 100% correct in saying that adversity elicits many talents that would have otherwise been unknown had one’s life been prosperous. By pushing their personal experiences on others, they are portraying harmful characteristics that should remain