The story “Boy without a Flag” is about the narrator talking about how he did not stand for the Pledge of Allegiances. In the beginning of the story, he talks about how his teacher(Miss. Colon) has an affair with another teacher(Mr. Rios). In the middle of the story, he talks about how he had a dream to become a writer. In the end of the story, he talks about how he will not stand for the Pledge of Allegiances and gets send to the office.
The flag represents nothing to the narrator and he won’t stand for the flag at all. He thinks its stupid to stand for the flag and that he had reasons not to stand for the Pledge of Allegiances. The story say freedom is nothing in America and that people don’t really have freedom. For example, the narrator’s father thinks America is abusing Puerto Ricans.
What I would have done if I was in the narrator’s place is I will stand for the Pledge of Allegiances and will just not listen to my father from what he said. An advice that I would give the narrator would be to feel you are free in America and respect the flag and what people have done to make this country how it is today.
The narrator is not a good American because in the story, he won’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiances and he gets bad influence from his father that America is a bad country. The narrator did do the right thing because no matter what you do even if you don’t stand for the flag, you still have to respect it by sitting quietly and don’t disturb anyone who is respecting the flag. In the story, the narrator gets send out of class for not standing for the flag and gets sent to the office. I think the narrator doesn’t have an American Dream but he still has a dream to become a writer. In the story, he talks to his father about wanting to become a writer when he grows up.
What I think about the story overall is that it talks about you having your own freedom and that it is limited and not unlimited in life. I also think the story talks about many things that other people do to be themselves as an American. What I think that stood out the most in the story is the narrator really care about who he is and he don’t let anyone tell him that he can’t be what he wants.
