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Lost: Can Not Be Found

February 4, 2015
By jkl43333 SILVER, Lambertville, Michigan
jkl43333 SILVER, Lambertville, Michigan
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In first grade we colored a picture of a man in a

Spanish captains hat

He was a hero. Exploring the world. Holy Europe Batman!

He discovered the Americas

 

By 7th grade, we learned that this man

This hero.

A man we dedicate a day in our calendar to

Was a rapist, had spread disease, enslaved, and killed the natives.

 

Lost: the illusion of Utopia

IF FOUND:

Please return to the teenagers who are starting to realize that

the world is not a perfect place

 

When mommy and daddy love each other very much

They want to start a family. That's when babies come

 

You realize that that too is a lie when the girl next to you in history 

Goes on maternity leave

 

Lost: childhood innocence and beliefs

IF FOUND: 

Please return to the teenagers who are starting to realize that

the world is not a perfect place

 

Lovers will never cheat

Friends will never fight

Parents will never be disappointed

The U.S. didn't kill 100,000 innocent people with the atomic bomb

People don't die from starvation

Life. Is. Perfect.

 

Lost: The illusion of perfection

IF FOUND:

Please return to the teenagers who are starting to realize that

the world is not a perfect place


The author's comments:

One of them biggest things that upset me to this day is that Christopher Columbus is not the hero I was originally taught. In class we were given five minutes to write about something we had lost, and immediately I knew what I had. Something that I could never get back. My oblivion to the world. I lost it the day I learned that Christopher Columbus was more of a villain than a hero in the discovery of America.


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