Lord of the flies argument essay. [This book should not be banned]

Diego Ogando Ela Draft 12/11/14

People think books should be banned just because there is somethings in it that is immature or just not good for kids and teens to hear. This comes up with the books “Lord Of The Flies”  by William Golding. This is a book about normal school boys who have been stranded on an island and have no way to get out. They go crazy and get into many fights with each other and somehow get drawn apart and start to hate each other. But This book should not be banned just because it has violence. There are things much worse that you just introduce to your children and this book hold many lessons kids and teenagers should know.

Many parents think that lord of the Flies should be and should stay banned just because it has killing and violence. Most of the book is just about the kids trying to survive and staying in their own group after they split up and become enemies. But it makes me wonder. Why would this book be banned when so many other books shouldn’t. Take the beloved harry potter books for example. This book has many violent scenes. Death of many kids and adults. But yet it is still no banned from schools everywhere. it says here on “Banned Books” from infoplease.com. It states that “ Not everyone agrees on which books should be banned. The Harry Potter books are a good example of this: some think they are wonderfully imaginative books that have done much to encourage kids to read; others, who think the Potter books should be banned, think they are a bad and corrupting influence on kids.” This book has as much violence as the book Lord of the Flies. What I  think is that these kind of books have more than a reputation than others. Lord of the flies is known to be not the best book ever. But Harry potter is loved by adults and children of all ages. So people knowing this probably thinks that it’s fine to have this book in their libraries at school. So why would this book be banned? It’s only violence, you have probably read books with as much violence and maybe even more.

Kids should know not to go around and hurting each other and setting standards as king and leader because, it and go out of hand. Kid’s can learn from this. Kid’s are going to be resistance towards being jack (the antagonist of the book.)  They are going to look at him and question the ways he is thinking. They will look at him and say no, ralph will win, he will beat jack. They will want the hero to make it out alive and well and come out on top of jack. I think parents look at this book and just think it’s a bad influence on children and i think they can actually look at this book and learn from it. They will look at jack and know it is wrong what he is doing.

Yes parents and teachers will look at this book and think it is a bad influence towards children. There is some violence towards children and they see how children can go mad without adults being with them. They will look at all of this and think that it is inappropriate for children and that they should look at this and think that this book is no good for children and that it should not be acknowledged by them. But it is in my argument that i think that they are wrong. There is something called the first amendment, freedom of speech. So if you are banning  book you are going against the freedom of speech. No one should ever be able to “ban a book.” Just because it is violent does not mean it should be taken away from someone. Also adding on to how kids can learn from lord of the flies. They can be taught how be a role model. students and kids can be aware how Ralph is in control of things and tries to be the best role model

The book lord of the flies should not be argued to be banned from school. There are things much worse that you just introduce to your children and this book hold many lessons kids and teenagers should know. All i am trying to say is that readers should have a choice what to read and shouldn’t listen to anyone else when it comes to their reading. Yes the subject of violence is not pleasant but it is not a reason to ban a book from someone. We should be able to read whatever without it being questioned.

social awareness poem

Diego Ogando      Social awareness poem              12/2/14

An announcement turned on

someone was in the building

I knew I shouldn’t have come to school today

I was scared, afraid, i didn’t know what to do

I hid under my desk and didn’t make a sound.

While i heard some footsteps come around

My teacher made a be quiet jester while touching her index finger to her lips

the steps outside stopped and it was silent

I closed my eyes and held my breath.

The door started to bang and shake as the person outside tried to open it

I looked around at my classmates

A girl next to me had her hand over her mouth trying not to make a noise while she cried

as the banging stopped I didn’t get up

But other kids did.

Just then the man shot the door open with their gun. Kids screamed and yelled

It was hell in here

I stayed laying on the floor as i put my jacket over myself  to stay hidden

The shooting stopped and so did the screaming

I heard the mans footsteps walk out of the room

And as i got up and looked around all i saw was terror

Five kids in my class. dead. I was scared. Sad. I didn’t know what to do.

I just sat there. and cried

and cried

and cried.

Interview with my mom social awareness project

Diego Ogando                    Interview 12/2/14

I asked my mom questions on how she loves to donate to charity. I found out that my mom has been doing this for a long time and that she really enjoys it and loves to help people in need.

I asked her first how long has she been donated to charity. She responded by saying that she has been donated to charity her whole life with my grandma. She liked to donate to people in vietnam and even if she just had extra clothing she would go and donate it.

I asked where does she donate and she answerd she chose housing works she donated her time to them and worked there for a while and its a great charity that gives clothing to the poor and people suffering with hiv

she usually donates once a year but when we moved houses she donated 25 garbage bags worth of clothing to housing works which i think is very nice and i really look up to her doing that.

And she said she usually donates things that are really valuable so lots of money goes to charity and if they don’t sell they give them away to poor people for free.

I really admire my mom doing this. Looking out for the poor and people who are sick. I think she is doing the right thing and she changes the world for some people. even in a little way.

Please dont steal my air jordans reading responce

Diego Ogando      please don’t take my jordans reading response 12/1/14

In the poem, “please don’t take my jordans,” I can really see what this world could really be like because things like this happen everyday. You need to look cool, you need to have people notice you and i think that this poem shows just how far someone will go to look “cool” or to get some people to notice them. the kid in this book would literally kill to have a new pair of jordans.

This poem starts off on a boy bragging about his new jordans. He says it goes well with his leather adidas cap and his fake gucci backpack. But then he says that things things are not free and they cost money. But he doesn’t have a job. So it turns out he stole the shoes. He stole the the adidas cap. He stole the fake gucci backpack. And it leads me to think that this isn’t very peculiar. Things like this happen everyday. There are just some people that would something like this on a normal basis and from what I have read it sounds like he does it on a normal basis too. He then says it is the end of the school year and he needs new gear. But he mentions that the malls security is getting more controlled and harder to steal things so that day, he packs his gun and gets ready. Just hearing this, I know what just is going to happen. He is going to kill some kid just to get new J’s. And he did. He skipped school that day and took the train to a basketball court with his, “crew.” His friends said that he wasn’t going to do it but i think that just pushed him to do it even more. He looked for an easy target. Someone who wouldn’t fight back. And once he found the kid he started to wait until the kid left. And once he left he trailed the kid to where it was a safe place to get him. He tried to take them but the kid resisted and he shot him and took them away. But something that caught me was when he was taking the sneakers the kid said, “please don’t take my air jordans away.” But he was dying. He wanted the sneakers so badly he didn’t care about his own life. He was bleeding out on the street not giving a care in the world.

This confuses me because why would he want the sneakers so badly. If i was him i would be worrying about my life. How could i get out of this alive. And what makes me uneasy is that the boy just runs away with the j’s. He didn’t even think twice. He just takes them. If i was him i would leave them there for him. It’s really sad to just shoot someone and run off with their shoes and not even think twice about it. That kid is now probably dead because you just wanted new shoes that you don’t have money for. And at the end of all this he come into school the next day like nothing happened and he says, “i don’t care cuz now… I need a new jacket to wear.” so He is going to do the same thing to just a get a new jacket which is not good at all.

and the end of this it makes me realize just how bad someone can be when it comes to how they look or how they get attention. It’s really sad that someone would actually kill to just get new clothes and not even think twice about it. I think it’s just wrong.