Would you be frustrated if someone took away one of your favorite things and didn’t allow you to use it anymore? How would you feel; mad, sad, even depressed? Reading in fact is an escape place for many book lovers all across the world. It is a place where their fantasies go wild and desires are met. The school board has decided to ban fiction from the curriculum all over the United States. This idea to abolish fiction will not allow us to learn about real life scenarios and social issues that occur outside of our bubble, the perspectives of alienated immigrants, and the motivations and desires of people affiliated with gangs.
Fiction should not be banned from the curriculum because it addresses real life social issues and scenarios that …show more content…
According to (youth.gov/youth-topics) the incarceration rate over the United States has increased within the last 10 years for minors between the ages of 8-12. These statistics are very believable considering all the violence that occurred during the book Always Running, a New York Times bestseller that describes what happens in the gang life of a young boy that migrated to the United States from Mexico. During the book the author says “go ahead and kill us we’re already dead.”-page 247, Always Running. This quote shows us that he believed he was going to die because he went down the wrong path because of alienation. He was lead into a life of gang violence, sex addiction, and drug abuse. Without fiction many people would be unaware of the social issues that occurred in Luis’s life, however, fiction allows the reader to understand what happens outside of …show more content…
He is motivated to go down a path of success after he is finally done with the gang life. He spreads hope by saying (Luis,page 11, Always Running) “ my hope in producing this work is that there is a thread to be found, a pattern or connection, no matter how slight in helping to end the rising casualty count for Ramiro’s in this world”. Fiction allows the reader to know that it isn’t worth going down the path he did. His journey was far too long and hard to allow anyone to go down this path without being cautioned. His brother was there the whole time saying (Page 50, Always Running,Ramiro Rodriguez)“You didn’t have to defend me to those dudes”. He cautioned his brother that the road he was going down was one for people with no potential. The author desires a life of fitting in but doesn’t realize the path he went down was wrong till the end of his story. Fiction has now cautioned the reader about the gang life. This leaves the reader with no excuse to go down this
Fiction should not be banned from the curriculum because it addresses real life social issues and scenarios that …show more content…
According to (youth.gov/youth-topics) the incarceration rate over the United States has increased within the last 10 years for minors between the ages of 8-12. These statistics are very believable considering all the violence that occurred during the book Always Running, a New York Times bestseller that describes what happens in the gang life of a young boy that migrated to the United States from Mexico. During the book the author says “go ahead and kill us we’re already dead.”-page 247, Always Running. This quote shows us that he believed he was going to die because he went down the wrong path because of alienation. He was lead into a life of gang violence, sex addiction, and drug abuse. Without fiction many people would be unaware of the social issues that occurred in Luis’s life, however, fiction allows the reader to understand what happens outside of …show more content…
He is motivated to go down a path of success after he is finally done with the gang life. He spreads hope by saying (Luis,page 11, Always Running) “ my hope in producing this work is that there is a thread to be found, a pattern or connection, no matter how slight in helping to end the rising casualty count for Ramiro’s in this world”. Fiction allows the reader to know that it isn’t worth going down the path he did. His journey was far too long and hard to allow anyone to go down this path without being cautioned. His brother was there the whole time saying (Page 50, Always Running,Ramiro Rodriguez)“You didn’t have to defend me to those dudes”. He cautioned his brother that the road he was going down was one for people with no potential. The author desires a life of fitting in but doesn’t realize the path he went down was wrong till the end of his story. Fiction has now cautioned the reader about the gang life. This leaves the reader with no excuse to go down this