short story 2

I read a short story called Butterflies by Roger Dean Kiser. This story is about the author when he was a younge boy living in a orphanage. He talkes about how because of what he witnessed he is now an old man. What he means by this is that he once had a free spirit like a little boy should and then out of nowhere it was torn apart. The author explains that one day he went out into the garden where he saw the house parent catching butterflies. After the parent would catch the butterflies he would kill them by pinning them to a cardbord paper. After a while the house parent gets a phone call and leaves the peice of paper outside. The boy then goes to look at what the man had done and he sees a butterfly that is still alive. He strokes the butterfly and knocks one of the pins holding the butterfly on off of the butterfly. The butterfly then trys to fly away but breaks its other wing off instead. The boy trys to help the butterfly but there is nothing he can do. The house parent then comes out and starts yelling at the boy and hits him on the head with the cardbord paper. The boy buries the pretty butterflys wondering how something so beautiful could be killed so cruely. The boy never plays with the butterflys again.

I think the reason the author wrote this story is because he doesnt believe this is right. I think he wants people to charish beauty and understand that those types of things should not be tampered with. I think he is also trying to explain that something like that can ruin and childs out look on the world and he doenst want that for anybody else. He states that "There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage turned me into an old man. " This is horible to me and nobody wants that for anybody else.

I think it is important to read about other peoples lives to understand how other people feel. I feel that eveybody should try to understand what makes other people the way they are. Alot of the time when people read about my mom it changes their entire outlook on life and that something so good can turn out bad. It also teaches them not to take anything for granted; especially their parents.