Critical thinking question #2

           Critical thinking question: How does this book help you to think about social issues you care about or causes you are committed to?

    The book that I am currently reading called Purple Heart helps me to think about and appreciate the fact that there are soldiers fighting so that I can do things other kids around the world don't get to. In this book I actually read the things that soldiers do for their country and it helps me be more appreciative about this social issue that there are people fighting for my life. Even though this book is fiction, I know that it has real feelings in it and soldiers do go through these things. Reading this book every day also makes me more committed to chasing my dreams and doing good in whatever I do because I know that I should not take it for granted. In the story, The main character Matt gets frustrated because he has a mental breakdown in his mind about how he wishes sometimes instead of looking at his loved ones in pictures, he could just be with them. And I get to see my loved ones on a regular basis while someone is fighting for me to be able to do so. And in the story Matt goes through a temporary brain disorder, but still tries to get better in order to go back out and fight. And that deserves a lot of gratefulness and respect.

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Question number 3: How does this text make you think about justice in the world?

 I  recently read a book called The Help. It was about 3 women who fought for their justice being that they lived in a time where there was heavy racism. The three of them take a huge risk and write a tell-all story about how it was being a black house maid. This book made me think about justice in the world because in the story their fighting for rights against the racism in Mississippi. There is a law that's trying to be passed that all colored people have to use separate bathrooms than white people which isn't right. Things like that happen through this story and it makes me think about how things changed from then to now. A lot of things changed like black and white people can be together anywhere now, and there is less discrimination used in America. This makes me realize that people have changed and black people have gotten most of their justice. What I mean by that is that even though we can be around the same places as the other race; there is still a lot of discrimination used. But, it is not as common which is a big step for America. In the story, the three woman get their justice in the end because they took a risk for what they wanted. This teaches me that is there is something that I think it unfair, I should fight for my justice and for what I know is right. Justice is something that everyone deserves and should have.