Is the Book "Between Shades of Gray", Fair?

Image this. You hear a loud booming on your front door like someone is trying to break it at night. You don't know what is going on. Are you in trouble? Are you being arrested? Then you are told you have twenty minutes to get ready for a whole different life. That is exactly what happened to Lina, her mother, and her younger brother in the book "between shades of gray", by Ruta Sepetys. Sepetys expresses different ways of how the story is unfair.

The story " Between Shades of Gray", unfair because Lina is taken away from her home, and she didn't know why. Ruta Sepetys states, " Were we being arrested? Where was Papa? I ran to my room." This quote concludes that Lina doesn't know what to do, and she is overwhelmed with everything that was going on. We see this again when the author writes, " But we had nothing wrong!". Lina doesn't know what to think. She is desperate for answers.

Lina, her mother, and her brother, are treated unfairly throughout the book. For example, one example      this was done was, " Mother looked in the Foyer mirror to affix her loose curls and put her hat. The NKVD officer slammed her in the shoulder with the butt of his riffle, throwing her face-first into the mirror. " Bourgeois pigs, always wasting time. You won't need that hat," he scoffed". Another way this is shown in the story is , "The officer snatched the watch, let go of Jonas, and started yelling at the people next to us.Have you ever wondered what a human life was worth? That morning, my brother was worth a pocket watch." The NKVD officers didn't care about Lina, her mother, or her brother, and they treated them unfairly in lots of ways.

In conclusion, the book "between shades of gray", written by Ruta Sepetys is not fair. Lina and everyone around her we're not being treated fairly. She didn't even know why. All she knew was that the "knock" on the door at night changed her whole life, and she didn't she it coming.
           

Is the Gaokao Test Fair?

  

Is the Gaokao Test Fair?

Wow! 9 million students each year in China take the Gaokao test to determine the rest of their lives. But thats no big deal.

Right? In the article “ China’s Cram Schools”, written by Brook Larmer illustrates how stressful and unfair it is for students 

to be taking the test. There is a lot riding on one test.

Gaokao causes lots of stress for students and teachers in China. For example, in the article in states, “Given every 

June over several days, the test is the only thing that matters for admission to Chinese universities.” This quote concludes 

that Gaokao is the only important event during these days in China for all students. We see the stress the test causes when the author writes, “ the Gaokao offers promise of a life beyond the fields and factories”. This example explains how the Gaokao test is the only in front of all students lives in China.

Gaokao, the test that determines the rest of students in China lives is not fair for many reasons. First of all, students in China spend there life studying for this test. For example, Larmer states, “Yang Wei, then a senior at Maotanchang, had spent the previous three years,weekends included, stumbling to his first class at 6:20 in the morning and returning to his room only after the end of his last class at 10:50 at night.” This idea is also supported by the fact that students never get a break. Another fact that claims this is, “ Xu filled every spare moment with study, testing himself between classes, on the toilet, in the cafeteria.” There is no real life besides studying for students in China. They are not able to live their lives outside of school.

In conclusion, all of this goes to show that the Gaokao test is stressful and unfair to all the students in China. There whole life shouldn't be in the hands of the result of a test.