Pure Conformity: Holding By Lois Lowry

Pure Conformity Conformity is not always the answer. People tend to live their life as a lie to save the ones that they love and to keep them from getting hurt. Conformity means “correspondence in form, nature, or accordance with the rules”. In life, you will always have people with different point of views depending on the situation. One who chooses to be an conformist, they are likely to follow the rules and regulations vs. a nonconformist who does the complete opposite. Willie, the conformist from the short passage Holding written by Lois Lowry, made the decision to continue a lie about his father’s sexuality. Willie’s father, who in this case was the nonconformist, was a homosexual. Willie’s lie was astonishing and all until things began to take a twist and the duration of the lie had to come to an end. In the passage Holding, a young boy named Willie goes to New York to visit his father. Now this is not like your average trip to have father and son bonding time, but it was more so like being there for each other at the right time. There had been a terrible accident, Chris, Willie’s father

Although the love that everyone had for Chris was mutual, no one loved him as much as Willie’s father did. He took Chris death to the heart, it was like he couldn’t get over it. In the passage it stated, “Then he gasped again, went breathless again, and i waited while he fought with tears. Finally, he took a deep breath and said, “Everyone loved Chris so much.” ” Seeing his father all torn apart and mournful, Willie came to his senses how much Chris really meant to his father and that knowing how spiritual Chris was, he would notn’t have wanted Willie to be giving off false information like he was. A nonconformist chooses to live their life to its full potential whether there are rules to follow or not. Being an individualist is not that bad after