Wounds of an Injured Country

The book Shattering Glass raises many problems faced in today’s society, wealth, violence, and many more. We cant allow things like this to plague our country until it tears us apart. Our hearts must come together and patch the wounds of our world
When people think of the United States they think of freedom, compassion, and a country built on virtue and righteousness. But the dark truth is that the beautiful place we call home faces problems so devastating its impacting countries all over the world.
Wealth, when you hear the word you picture big houses, nice cars, and fancy name brand clothes. But is that what it really is? Money is sometimes called “the root of all evil” because of what its done to our country. The truth is that wealth and money have corrupted us, making us greedy and doing acts only to acquire more money or material possessions. Money is giving our youth “big head” to put it bluntly. They go to school everyday and flash the fact that they have more money than the average person. Its become almost a requirement in the U.S. that you have money to be accepted in to a clique. This raises another problem, bullying.
The lower class citizen or the “average joe” are constantly pushed around and treated like there nothing. Its an ever growing problem in schools, kids being beat up, hurt, and some even killed, due to the violence we are exposed to. Some people blame music, video games, books, or TV. But is that really who’s to blame? Or are we just trying to hide the facts that were really the ones to blame.