When do we create our own legacy? Is it when we do something extraordinary? Or do we just live in out parents legacy's? If someone was hurt and sitting on the street, and they would die if you didn't help them, but you knew their parents had hurt someone close to you, would you help them?
This is the predicament that Stevie Rae got herself in to from the book Burned. She saw a raven mocker (beastly sons of a "fallen angel" called Kalona") about to die with both his wing and his arm broken (they are 1/2 man and 1/2 bird beasts). And in the end she decided to help him. And I believe that I would have done the same thing.
A persons parents is different from that person. And even though Kalona has done many evil things, that doesn't make him evil too. It just makes him caught in his fathers shadow. And it's sometimes is hard to break that shadow. But is possible if tried.
In the book Horton Hears a Who Horton says throughout the whole book "a persons a person no matter how small". In some ways that's true. But in other ways it's not. What if you were too kill an ant because it's gross? Does it make it okay because an ant is just one little insignificant bug? Or does is it not okay because every life no matter how small is sacred?
What do you think? Should it be okay to kill insicnificant creatures? And do your parents make you feel as if you should follow in their footsteps?
Really well said, Scarlett. I agree with you. There are times when my parents want me to be like them, organized and everything but I have to be my own person. I mean the only reason why people think they're insignificant creatures is because they're small but they're not insignificant. Great points you made in this post.
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