The Laramie Project Reflection
My first reaction to reading The Laramie Project was “another boring school book”, but as I soon discovered in the next couple days it wasn’t your average school book. I found the book to be very interesting and controversial. When reading this book I didn’t know what to feel at first, but after a while I found myself becoming more and more interested in what happened.
The set up of this play was very different from any other I have read. The interviews with all the different people really gave you all the perspectives of the story. Including those for and against gays. Obviously what the boys did to Matthew Shepard was wrong. I think the real question here is, was what Matthew did wrong. I recall from the story when one of the boys was describing what happened right before he started beating him in the car, he said that he was touching him inappropriately and to me this is not right. Not only should the boys have respected Matthews’s beliefs, but Matthew should have respected the boys’ beliefs as well.
In conclusion there are many lessons to be learned while reading this story. Some are very obvious and some are hidden. Such as the one I pointed out, if we all respect each other’s beliefs there should be no problems. The problems start when people can’t keep their beliefs to themselves
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