Day 5- Answer to Arianna

Back in my 11th grade year I had to defend myself physically against a group of people. It wasn’t so much as me believing in something and they believing another; it was a misunderstanding, I guess. People fear what they don’t understand and boys, most likely, have to defend themselves physically. There’s this thing called pride which gets in the way of our peaceful thinking. We see someone “disrespecting” us and immediately have to stand our ground instead of thinking about the future and what could happen if we retaliate. “Some fool from M/N was talking stuff to him in school and Hall talked some stuff back. What’s he supposed to do?” (90). Nathaniel Hall’s actions resulted in him not being able to attend the writing class or come out his cell. He did not think of the future, he didn’t think of the consequences. He believe that if someone talks smack to him then he should talk smack right back to him; he believed in defending himself physically instead of taking the high road and ignoring whatever was said. His surroundings made him believe that if he chickens out in any way then he’ll be considered a punk, and a punk is a bad thing to be because everyone picks on you. It’s human nature to stand up for oneself. That’s what my mother taught me, if someone hits you then you hit them back. No one likes to get picked on and pushed around and bullied, we all want to be respected. Once we find something worth fighting for, we fight for it, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.