My opinion on "The boy without a flag"

Reflection #1
My opinion on “The boy without a flag”
In this story a boy with the mind and thoughts of a young adult who fights for what he believes in. He was always encouraged to see things very differently from kids his age by his father’s reaction or replies to our surroundings. By the way his father always talked about the U.S taking us, Puerto Ricans, and others making us think that we depend on them for everything and that without them we are nothing.

Like every child, they want to be like their parents when they grow up. We learn from them everything because we see our parents as great role models in our lives and most of us would like to follow their steps someday. He made a choice in school into not saluting the U.S flag in which he didn’t believe in anymore because of what his father had always said and even though he presumed that his father would be proud of his decision if he found out it was totally the opposite. He did say that we should do something so that the U.S. would stop treating us like nothing but he didn’t want that someone to be his son because this would just start riots etc…

In a way, as the boy in the story, I would be angry and ashamed of my father because he didn’t stand up for what he taught his son and believed in because “we are minority and obviously they are majority. For everything in life you’ll have to follow rules even though you might not like them”.

We need to change a lot of things in our society but we are so scared of changes. We are so a custom to a certain way of living and when a change comes, good or bad, we tend to fight. Our way of life shouldn’t be based only on what the governor or president believes it’s right for us because we are the people who live by this decisions made by them. Frankly, they live ten times better than we do in every single term.