Monsters of MMP

     Have you ever wondered why kids are sometimes suprisingly depressed sometimes? Isolated from the world of joy that sits right in front of them. Why is this so? My first guess would be school work. I mean, most of the time, when I'm depressed, thats the case. When reading the book "The Monstrumologist," by Rick Yancey, realized that there are many other reasons of a kid's loneliness. Their parents, their guardians, the people they expect to give them a chance to be what ever they want to be. In the book, young 12 year old Will Henry is the assistant to a "doctor" who actually is a different than most doctors because what he studies are actual monsters. Whats the negative of the job? You can't live a normal life. You can't have relationships and have to lie about your job every time your asked of it. Will is and soon has to take over the responsibility due to a promise he made to the doctor if he would die. Parents/Guardians play a huge role in how their child/ protected engage the world and many times, the parents/guardians don't realize that they may wnat to live life the way they want to live it.
     The reason why I keep saying parent/guardian is because the doctor is not Will's father. Will and the doctor had nobody, Will wanted to join the doctor. In the book, there are some examples of why Will doesn't want to be an monstrumologist. For example, when the doctor is examining every inch of a corpse to figure out what type of monster killed it, he descibes it in such a grusome way and tells of the horrer it was at the sight of it abd the acrid stench of the corpse. This gives the reader a sense that Will sometimes regrets ever becoming the doctor's assistant. Another reason would be, not only is he only 12 years old, but being an orphan because of a fire that killed his parents, he was probably desperate to have someone be there for him and for someone to care for him, so, at such a young age, he would do anything just to feel love, even agree to be an assistant of a, some may say, a lunatic.
     When parents steer their childrens lives into the lives they want for them, this may cause the child to have a life that they may not want. The author of this book, Rick Yancey, wants the reader to know this because although parents want the best for the children, they can offer suggestions, but can't force them to be what they don't want to be. Everybody has a choice to do whatever they want with their life and no one should ever be forced to be what they don't want to be.
     When in this situation, children are trapped. They depend on their parents to enforce justice to them, but what if it's the parents who do injustice to their children. This is one situation that, may not be looked as a serious situation, but to many, it is tough to live life with it lingering in their households. This connects to the world in many ways. One main way is with education. Many children are forced to do good in school by making them do extra curiculums. They also place serious consequences on them to force them to put every effort of work into their school work. Why don't they just rebel? Its their parents. The ones who taken care of them sense they were born. They would feel like they're the bad guys. Also, parents don't realize what may be good for their child is mostly benefiting the parent more than the child. My brother is going to college and has broken down the schools that accepted him to 2 schools. My brother wants to go to a school that is big and the campus is beautiful, but my mom wants him to go to the other one, which offers a better education and has a better reputation. In a way, my mom is wavering between forcing him to go or just giving him suggestions to go to the school. If parents force their children to become what they want them to be, there wouldn't be much of a variety to this world. Have you ever wondered why kids are sometimes suprisingly depressed sometimes? I know I have.