Boy Overboard Story - Personal Opinion

BOY OVERBOARD STORY:

There was a book I have read in terms. It was called “Boy Overboard”. Some people thought that it was a story about civilized people and uncivilized government, and some thought it was not. But in my opinion, it was a book which could show and represent the civilized people and the uncivilized government. Civilized is a word to describe the definition about a modern thing, a way of life, and a period which was passing through many long times ago. Civilized is changed over times. We can feel and observe these changes through technologies, wars, the human’s personality, and more and more. If there is light, there will be dark. If there is good, there will be bad. Everything has their opposites as the word “Civilized”, so there will be a word “uncivilized”. There are two reasons why I thought it was a story about civilized people and uncivilized government.

The first reason is because I read about Afghanistan’s reaction and their behavior to their people in Boy Overboard. They punished, refused and killed who didn’t follow their rules, instead of giving a chance to those criminals, and changing their unfair rules. More people who made mistakes, more refugees in Afghanistan. Music was outlawed. Women and girls had to cover their entire body when they were outdoors, which means these people couldn’t show their faces, legs, hands, everything on their body even the eyes. The both sexes were not equal and fair in this unequal country. The females couldn’t go to school to study education, didn’t have the right to say or elect, and worked every day for the males, and didn’t have the right to make decisions for their marriages. Many international activities were not allowed to play and achieve in such as football, basketball, volleyball, ping- pong, tennis, etc. Afghanistan was an unequal country of the discrimination between the classes (rich and poor, powerful and weak, etc.). The problem was the Afghanistan’s government believed too much in Allah, who was their

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