Sunday, January 7, 2007
How ironic...
On page 44 of "The Things They Carried" It says, "I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and family, my whole history, everything that mattered to me. I feared losing the respect of my parents. I feared the law. I feared ridicule and censure." This feeling that O'Brien had when he was thinking of running away, I feel the same way when I fail at something. One mistake, can lead to many others. One fail on a simple math test can change your life. It makes you think...Will I make it? Will my parents be mad at me? Am I going to get made fun of? It’s ironic if you think about it. I'm comparing a man who just got drafted to a war he wouldn't like to fight in, with a school experience that I went through, once in a while. So I guess this proves something, a story can make you think. It can relate with some problems that you go through. It may not solve the problem, but it can help you accept that you're not alone.
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In some ways, living in our world today, is all about war, whether we are technically on a battlefield or not. We are always being challenged to compete, and with money, education, and jobs becoming tougher to achieve (statistically, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, and the gulf continues to widen), workplace and school can also feel like wars. That does not devalue actually having to fight in a war, but it does remind us that there are common connections intertwining between our human experiences.
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