The Circuit

When you make the decision to become a parent you have to make sacrifices  for your kids. You can't call quits. You have to make the best life possible for each child. In the story "The Circuit" the dad doesn't live up to his expectations.

The frightening thing about this story is that it's so true. Parents not giving their children the amount of love they need, sounds about right. I don't know if it's that is hard to make enough money or find time to spend with them; and that's why they don't get the proper care. I feel as if you make the commitment to have a child, you have to give them what they need; and if you can't do this them you have to put the baby up for adoption to give her/him a better life. Or, just don't have a baby.

How this relates to the story is that Papa makes crucial mistakes. He makes choices that he thinks is best for the family, but it doesn't seem like it. As their family moves again his son Panchito was sad. Then, he went to school and ended up loving it. Right as Panchito got home the family was moving again. Education is an important thing in kids life. Therefore, I thought Papa made a very bad decision.

When I read stories like this one, it makes me feel better that my parents do make the time to spend with me even if they have a million things on their plate. Like when my mom just a week or two ago took a day off from work to chaperone for a school field trip; and the whole time I didn't talk to any of my friends, and she didn't talk to the other parents. My mom and I don't spend as much time together as I would like so it touched my heart that she went out of her way to do this for me. Another thing is that my dad is the best thing that I could have. He's always in the bleachers cheering me on at every game, when the rest of my family can't make it. Or when I tell him I need to buy a shirt for the dance and get make-up he says "Don't worry about it, it on me." For me, that was huge, because usually knowing me, it's not one or two dollars.

The point to this story was to do what's necessary for your child no matter what the circumstances are. Also, noticing your kids, and not making decisions based upon you, but for the greater good of your family.

All Summer in a Day

Some people may say that they fear spiders or maybe snakes, but those are the people who haven't found what we should fear the most; isolation. In the story "All Summer in a Day" Margot has faced this miserable problem.

One of her problems it being disliked by so many people in her class. If I was a person who had people rolling their eyes at me and using nonverbal communications I would feel horrible! I think that Ray Bradbury did an amazing job with this piece of writing. He captured a lot of emotion and put so much feeling into the characters.

His story gave me the idea of a story that I heard the other day when I heard a story relating to the isolation and loneliness that Margot had. The story was about how scientists put one monkey in a room all by there self giving shelter, food and warmth.  They wanted to see how the monkey would adapt to being by there self. The monkey was never held once. The monkey went to the corner of the room and didn't eat and starved and almost died.

The reason why the scientist did this is because it's scary to never be loved, or talked to. And that people can go insane or commit suicide because of this. How this came together with the story is because Margot felt so alone and everyone made fun of her because she was different and didn't fit in they put her in a closet and locked it. Finally, the kids went to open the door and they noticed it was silent. They opened the door even more slowly and let Margot out. After reading this I thought Margot killed herself because she felt so isolated.

Margot is not a real character, but there are people in the world that go through this and that is a crime. The story teaches us what to fear; the fear of being isolated. Just one person is all anyone needs. If we don't have that one person we will be lost, clueless and then become insane, and perhaps … take your own life.