Death of a Child

In today's world we have become desensitized to many things. We see and hear things on TV everyday that would horrify and shock our grandparents and older relatives. Rap songs talk a lot about hoes, bitches, drugs use, sex, you name it there is probably a rap song with it. TV really isn't much better also having tons of sex, drugs and foul language. We see tons of things about rape and murder on TV, but constantly think that none of that will happen to us. The death we see on TV doesn't really seem to affect us that much anymore.

In class we talked about how Euripedes really understood tradegy and really understood how to tug at our heart strings. On Friday we watched the scene where Hector's wife learns that her son is to be killed. It was a heart wrenching scene, one of the worst I have ever seen on film. I believe in today's world this tradegy is something that still effects people very deeply. The death of a child is considered one of the worst things to ever happen and Euripedes understands that. Recently a teacher from my hometown lost her one year old son. I had never met the baby and barely knew the teacher, but as soon as I heard about it my heart went out to her and her family. There have been several sites, including a facebook group, created for people to send their condolences and support to the family. No matter how much our culture is exposed to I believe that the death of a child will never be something that people can deal with or just brush off. As we saw in the movie the death of a child deeply effects people no matter how close you were to the child or the parents.