Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

            Social justice, even in the twenty-first century, has not been fully achieved among humans, and at that fact, I don't think it ever will be. Social justice is the equality between people socially. There are many topics that branches from this, such as racism, social class, sexism, etc. The book Inkheart by Cornelia Funke is one of the books that I have read recently. It is about a characters from the book Inkheart coming out of its "boundaries," which one of the first ones, by extremely unfortunate luck, happens to be the most evil character in it. He, Capricorn, causes lots of trouble to gain power. One of the social justice, or rather, social injustice, topics in this book is age discrimination.
            Inkheart briefly touches the subject of age discrimination. One example is that throughout all of the years Meggie, the daughter, has been alive, Mo, the father, has kept a massive secret from her daughter. Mo wouldn't let Meggie know about Capricorn. He wouldn't let Meggie know about the harm, and connection Capricorn has with him. Why, you might ask? Because Mo wanted to protect Meggie from it. He didn't want her to know the truth, because she was young, and Mo did a very good job too. When Meggie found out about Capricorn, she was confused at why his father would want her to think of how wonderful the world was,and having very limited knowledge at how quite the opposite it really was. In fact, the reality of Meggie's innocence to the evil was a part of the trouble; she didn't know a thing about of what was going on when Capricorn abducted her father.
            Even though the book Inkheart might not have been the best example of this, age discrimination really is a huge issue in our society. For example, just the other day, on the crowded bus, some middle-aged people couldn't find a seat on the bus to sit comfortably on. And what, do you think, they did? They cursed about "the damned kids that took up all the room," and very rudely ordered two kids get for them. Now it would even be understandable if an ACTUAL elder POLITELY ASKED people for a seat. However, these two might have thought that they had a perfect reason to take away a child's seat (which, by the way, wasn't anywhere near the front, where the priority seatings are), just because they were older, and potentially had more power. I think discriminating a person from being young or old is unfair, because it is something a person can control, and should not serve as a factor to how they are and should be treated.