So Much Unfairness in Things

The story So Much Unfairness of Things is a story about a 14-year old boy who cheats on a Latin exam and ends up getting caught. The lead character, P.S or Phil, attends an all boy boarding school called Virginia Preparatory School (V.P.S). All the boys in his family had attended V.P.S and had all succeeded in academics and extra-curricular activities during their years there. P.S felt pressured by his father the entire two years he had been at V.P.S. He failed the Latin exam every time he had taken it. Before he took the test for the third time, he had said how much he studied and how he was going to “kill” the test. He sat down to take the test and realized how much he did not know. He started to freak out and answer the questions he knew the answers for. He began to add up the points he knew he would for sure receive and realized he needed to translate one more question to pass the test. He then had an epiphany and realized that the passage that he was supposed to translate from Latin to English was inside his desk. He began to wonder if he should cheat and slyly slip the paper out of the desk and copy the answer. He decided to do so and cheat. He felt guilty about it afterwards and began to worry if someone had seen him. He went to the bathroom to smoke a joint and he started to freak out about it. He was then called into the Headmaster’s office. His friend Jumbo who sat next to him during the Latin exam had seen him cheat and reported him to the headmaster. He was expelled. P.S’s relationship with his dad was like an agreement in a way. He called his dad “ sir” and he constantly felt like he was disappointing him. When his dad actually opened up to his son, they ended up bonding and P.S was so worried about how his father was going to react to him being expelled. Yet, his dad wasn’t angry with him, he understood his son. I think it was good that P.S got expelled from school. I mean he shouldn’t have cheated, but when he got expelled, he and his father had a “moment” and they realized how distant they had gotten from each other. I think every teenager goes through a time when they feel like all they do is disappoint their parents. It is a part of growing up, because at one time their parents are going to be disappointed in them. If your parents never were disappointed in you, then you must have been living the life they wanted for you and not your own. Every parent has a dream for their own child and they honestly might just want their kid to follow their dreams and be happy. But, no matter what you have an ideal image for what you want your child to be. I think this because well I don’t have children, but I have 4 parents and I’ve gone through feeling like a disappointment to them. I’m not going to lie; I have cheated on tests. It’s not that I’m lazy; I just might not understand the subject and feel like I have no other options. I can’t say I have felt guilty for it either, but I know its wrong and it’s a bad thing to do. You are not only cheating on a test, your cheating yourself, thinking you just can’t pass it. That’s what P.S did; he didn’t have faith that he could pass the test. He knew he was going to fail it. Maybe if he hadn’t given himself the short straw, he would have passed the test. To relate to the title, how is there unfairness in cheating? You’re the one who is being unfair to yourself.