Respect your Elders

Today,was a great day, as usual. In Language Arts, my class read An Hour with Mandela. I thought the author, message was not to think, that just a because a person is elderly, does not mean that they are boring. Instead of disrespecting them all the time, actually LISTEN to what they have to say. You might find that you have something in coomon. Like Arturo, from the story. At first, he thought he was going to have a terrible time but in the end, he learned something new about his grandfather. He learned that they both had the same ambitous attitude and they both loved to read. They were also very smart and mischeivious. Too bad though, the grandfather had to be drafted for war, and after the war he needed a college degree. So he had to take care of the old people and became a farmer. That was really lame to me. In the end, Arturo learns that his grandfather is not as boring as he thought.