Kids Make a Stand

Author's Note: I wrote this essay because I wanted to express my feelings about how adults don't think that kids are capable of fending for themselves or doing fantastic things for the world.

  Many adults in the world don’t think that kids are capable of anything. They don’t think that they could possibly be smarter than adults! A lot of kids in the world think of life as being unfair, because maybe they are orphans, or maybe they are completely ignored by their parents. There are people in the world that are so heartless, they beat their child and think that they are completely worthless to the word. Adults were once children, too! Some kids, like the ones in “The Mysterious Benedict Society” want to prove that they aren’t worth nothing, and that they can do anything.

If you forgot everything including your childhood memories, your family, even your name, how would you feel? You would feel lost and forgotten; sad and depressed. In the book “The Mysterious Benedict Society,” There is a machine that will make you completely forget about everything in your past. Say you are captured by men in black suits. The last thing you remember is sitting in a dark room. When you wake up, there are the men again. And you don’t remember anything before that. Even your kids. That is what happened to many people in the book, including kids and adults. If that happened to me, I wouldn’t ever feel happy again. All of my memories, completely gone.The reason the man that created the machine created it was to make them only feel happy about being in the care and protection of him. And so that they would follow his orders. To put it simply, he is trying to control the brains of the whole human race.

Mr. Benedict tests kids to see if he can send them to the school where all of the mind controlling stuff is taking place, so they can find out information so they can stop the man who wants power. Mr. Benedict finds that kids are actually the only ones who can solve the problem. He actually has a logic to why kids are important in this mission, but other people only think kids can’t do anything is because they are young and inexperienced. I mean, if kids had a chance to do something important, they would! They might or might not succeed. But the point is, they would take up the offer and maybe do something important in the world.

Relating to this book is hard to do because most people have never gone on a secret mission to save the world and not a lot or people are orphans or a man that wants to (and thinks that he will) control the world. But, maybe people have had dreams about these things. Adventure and suspense are the words to describe this book. Mystery Is also another one, because it has many different clues that lead to other clues so the kids can figure out how to stop the man.

Kids in many different books have agreed that kids can do more than mow the lawn, or clean their rooms. They could actually do something important in the world. Maybe invent something, or find out a new way to go green. Adults just need to give kids a chance, and go with their ideas.