“Butterflies” There are times in a person’s life when everything sparkles; every moment is a special moment. It was that moment where they think this life is a perfect place, where they think everyone is just getting along well and everything is equal. But life is not always equal, and so it is not the way we thought it is. Equality, beauty, and reality are the society’s scarcity. It is the lack that can lead a person to lose their innocent. In “Butterflies” by Roger Dean Kiser, if there is freedom and equality, the author of “Butterflies” should have a happy family and not living in the orphanage that turned him into an old man. The author is not fortunate like anyone of his age. He could have been waking up with the smell of pancakes and maple syrup filling up his nose while watching his mom setting the plates onto the table instead of “I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with other twenty or thirty boys”…show more content… For him, it is a beautiful thing to watch butterflies strewn around the orphanage from all the bushes. For him, beauty is just that simple. When he said, “I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close”( 5), he thought that everything in the world was peaceful and lovely until: “ I carefully watch as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, and pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.” (4) This shows how everything Kiser thought was wrong. Life is not as he thought it was, and people are just cruel “to kill something such beauty.”
