A World Without Grown Ups

Ralph said in the book "There aren't any grown ups; we'll have to look after ourselves." That is correct. If we are in a world without ANY grow ups. There will be no one to rule us but also no one to look out for us. I highly doubt there will be any laws or rules at first. Even there is, it will not be followed because there is no one to execute it. So the world will be a chaos. We will not have electricity, fresh water coming out of the sink. We will have to seek water in a lake or river ourselves and hunt animals to stay alive. If anything goes wrong like something caught on fire or something collapsed. No one is going to take care of it most likely. If somebody felled or injured themselves, there will be no hospital or doctors to take care of you. So I think most of the people that don't have the ability to take care of themselves and survive will die and the remaining ones that took care of themselves might have the ability to unite some of the kids and form a society and survive. It will be like in the book "Lord of the Flies". They have to hunt and survive except they will not ever be rescued.

“Sometimes people are born with disabilities, but it’s communities that handicap them.”​​Anonymous

I agree with the statement above. Because when people born with disabilities and the surrounding people or community are born with the same disease. He would still be "handicapped" but he wouldn't be treated as a handicap because all the things in that community would be built for "handicapped" so he wouldn't be the only one that is "special". When people born with disabilities in a "normal" community. People all around him would be different from him so all the things built is all for "normal" people and people will have to treat him special like go to different schools or use different facilities so people would think he is "handicapped" only because he is different from the rest. For example, a person that needs to ride a wheelchair in a "normal" community would have to go through the "special" slope built for "special" people to get up the stairs IF the building have it built. But if the whole community needs to ride in wheelchairs, there will not be buildings that does not have slope built and the person wouldn't be treated special, in the opposite, people that are "normal" will be treated special. As people with disabilities live in a "normal" community more, it will not be just other people think they're special and they them self will think that other people are better than them and they are different.

Tiger Wang
8/18/15