After 9/11, the country was forced to a sudden realization – that we can no longer protect our children from knowing pain. For the longest time parents could tell their children they were safe, and not lie. Children were thought to be immortal from the burden of loss. No such luck anymore. Lowry made an excellent choice to use the poem “On Turning 10,” because it perfectly illustrates this. “…If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.” As a society, we have been attempting to drown out our fears by blinding ourselves. But, as Lowry explains, this IS the beginning of sadness. Children will lose parents, siblings, and friends to this greedy, corrupt world. The average person will fight for the politics of those that govern us. So, let us write things down; so that our pain will neither be forgotten, nor shall we drown in it.
Copyright 2011 Abigail Chapman
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