Give a Boy a Gun #5

Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser, may have been one of the best books I read in high school. I'll be honest it is not for the weak hearted. It is a very intense and graphic novel, and really gave me the creeps the whole time I was reading it. It really makes you think about a variety of things like, bullying, gun control, Columbine, and today's youth. I don't believe we have a big bullying issue at Deerfield, but it certainly does happen, and probably more so in other schools. It happens all too often and I never really paid any attention to it. During our Wednesday homeroom discussions, every time we talked about bullying, my homeroom would have the same reaction, "Not this again." We talked about it a lot, and I guess we didn't really see the point. We want to eliminate the chances of something like this ever happening, and stop suicide from happening as well. That's why we talked about it so much. And after reading this book it kind of puts things into perspective. We talked about gun control a little bit during class, and I still feel the same way about guns. I don't think they should be legal in anyway shape or form. They only thing they bring is death. It is scary to think that things like this may very well happen in real life, and truth be told we could see it multiple times in the future. Give a Boy a Gun was a fantastic book and I would recommend it to anyone. I think I'll definitely be more aware to bullying, and I think I'll always have the same stance on gun control.