Value(s)

by Mayra N. Sierra-Ruiz

The word value(s) is just another word for having morals. That is my opinion for what it means, however the dictionary might say it differently. The word value means a principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable. On the other hand it has so much meaning to it, than what the dictionary or I might have wrote.
In my search for discovering, what this word means. I found that it takes place in the entire stories I’ve read in my English class. In the story “Shooting an Elephant” I discovered that the man was shooting an elephant just because he had standards in his job. Although, he did not like his beliefs and the standards he had in his life, he had values still. In the next story “The Giver” we saw that a young boy named Jonas was given an assignment the receiver of memories. The Giver gave young Jonas memories about the previous pass and how life use to be. Only him and the Giver know about the pleasures and painful things we know in life. Jonas saw and learned about values something people did not know.
The word can be found and looked up in many places. I saw a great quote by a man named Jonathan Alter, “The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility”. You can see that the word was a great importance for the Greek Romans. I also saw a great Internet site that said, “People have very different morals values”. Which, is very true not everybody is the same, but it is important that people can find their values in life. Here are two ways to say values in different languages. Italian valori and Spanish valores.