11 Year 11 Child Persuasive Speech

Imagine a young, innocent, 11 year old boy. Now imagine a young, innocent, 11 year old boy with a military personnel helmet on twice the size of his head, holding an automatic rifle that is almost the same size as his frail little body. Imagine this boy looking left, right, up, down, and all he sees is blood, bullets flying, and dead bodies all around. All he hears is the sound of gunfire and screaming voices, trembling as he runs and hides in fear of his life. What is going through this child’s young mind? The young boy is frightened and a grown man is running at him with ill intentions written all over his face. The child gets scared, boom, and pulls the trigger. Now our imagination can no longer see a young, innocent, 11 year old boy. Instead, we have produced a young 11 year old boy who has experienced hell on earth in a matter of seconds. He has seen, heard, and done things that could cause traumatic breakdown in most people. His innocence has been stripped and he is probably no longer mentally stable. This is the reality of the …show more content…
The ones who are blessed to leave the battlefield are torn down physically and unstable mentally. They have no hopes, no dreams, no plans of the future, and no other way of life besides war. They return home and like a rock thrown in a pond, they spread what they have experienced; starting with those closest to them on to the rest of the people. The problem is one rock (child soldier) is not thrown into the pond (go home) at a time, multiple rocks are thrown in at the same time, constantly. This causes the ripple effect to spread faster because more and more children are or have been child soldiers. If the children who are the future are instilled with the ideas, images, and principles of war than it will be passed down from generation to generation; creating a ripple effect of people who live in a world where war is the only thing you know, live, and die for. Who wants to live in a society like