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The Fight"The Fight" by Richard Wright was bout a boy that was starting a new school and how he felt like he knew that he was going to need to fight in order to survive the school year. The story takes place in the school yard when the boy is outside he realizes that the other kids that were in his school was staring at him from across the playground. He the starts to back up to lean on the wall so that the boys would not realize his uneasiness and would pick you that he was nervous. The boys then proceed to walk across the playground and started to bother the boy. When he was getting talked to by the other kids he didn't back down taking verbal blows and dishing back out to the boys the same verbal blows. I do not agree with this story for the simple fact that there are better ways to handle being in a new school. I don't think that in order to fit in that we need to fight someone or bully a person just so we can avoid future fights or mishaps. For example one way that he could have avoided the whole fight was that he could of just walked away before anything started or walked away the minute there was a stupid comment thrown his way. Another way that he could have avoided the situation was that he could have paid the boys no mind at all. I don't think that fighting was such a good idea because now people can see that he gets mad very easily and some people would use that against him or even not want to befriend him to make sure that nothing is said wrong to him so that he wouldn't want to fight them. Honestly I would not let no one take me to a place where i feel like I'm going to have to fight to prove a point. I don't let people get under my skin because I know that there probably going though things or having a tough time. If I were one to let every single comment or remark get to me and let it take an effect on me I might as well be in a crazy bin because I would lose my mind trying to either want to please some one or thinking of ways to get them back. I'm the type of person that can hold my anger until I finally blow but it takes a lot to get me to the egde of no return. I had a friend and they had done some stuff in school that they are not proud for. At first she wanted to fight the people that said they saw it happened. Soon after things started to calm down there was still remarks to her about what she had did but in stead of having the same reaction she did the first time. This time she chose not to let it get to her and just walked away from anyone that was bothering her and then she just started to let things roll off her sholders and not care what people think about her because she knew that the problem was not anyone but her business and the person that told everyone should just mind their business. I do not think that the appropriateness to the author's reaction in the story was good. The reasons is that he did something to stand out , to be honored , to be looked at and be scared of he did it to fit in and not have to fight ever again. " This was my test. If I failed now, I would have failed at school, for the first trial came not in books but in how one's fellows took one, what value they placed upon one's willingness" with this thought being in his head he was knowingly going to get into a fight instead of just letting things play out he chose to get ready to have a fight with the other boys if they were to step to him. I think this was all wrong he should have just gone to school and not really worried what was going to happen to him and if he was going to be liked by everyone or not to fight. |