"And some day we will die
and our ashes will fly from the airplane over the sea
but for now we are young
let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see"
-Neutral Milk Hotel
Life is a funny thing, to question it means that your going to bring the question of life to the grave. Most of us don't bother to ask questions like these because there isn't any known answer to them, so we just go along for the ride. After listening to an amazing song, In an Areoplane Over the Sea, and reading, Pretty Little Mistakes, i realized how much the not knowing affects a persons life. Pretty Little Mistakes is a bunch of ways that your future will turn out, depending on your choices. This Verse from the song reall stood out to me in many, hard to explain, ways.
In a way, Neutral Milk Hotel is telling us the meaning of life. To live it to it's full extent and enjoy the experience. I think this is the most correct answer i have ever heard. After listening to this song multiple times, it processed through my mind that this was the answer and i will be wasting my "precious" time if i try to go deeper. Then i realized that we have the answers but we don't know where to look. I know that is a HUGE , used to many times, line from movies and stuff but its true.
People are so eager to know how and when and why life ends and the events that lead up to your easy or rough going, that they create books like Pretty Little Mistakes. Even if it means finding out that you die in a flock of angry seagulls, or live to the very end of time.
"Oh frog and toed oh frog and toed why are you lying in the street?
you didn't look
before you crossed
so now you look like apple sauce
oh frog and toed
oh frog and toed
why are you lying in the street?"
-AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The famous frog and toed song that parents use to get their kids to look both ways before they cross the street...kind of cruel. But that is the truth about life, you step out of line once, and your dead. Frog and Toed didn't look, for once in their lives, they walked without looking and then they get run over by a car and now they look like apple sauce. It drives my nerves to the edge!The one time that you leave your door open, your house cat runs out...Life is to complicated.
KNOW THIS
-every thing you do, you will pay for it...good or bad.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
How the simplest things can mean the world
Throughout my considerably short life, i realized how much meaningless things are to some people, but they can also mean more then an average human can imagine, to someone else. With the holidays coming up, i thought about Christmas and Hanuka. Gifts and presents are a huge part of them, as well as celebrating your religion. A gift to most people in our class seems like a nice gesture and a pleasant surprise, but to other people, it can assure them that someone cares about them and is willing to spend money to prove it. People less fortunate then others experience this with something as small as a card or piece of candy.
Another thing that can also be valued or recognized as worthless is a dollar. As we grow older, we realize the importance of a single dollar, but as our younger selves, we were willing to through money in every direction. In Breaking the Bank, the main character Mia Saul, is surprised with what seemed like endless amounts of free money that isn't being noticed by the bank, she jumps from a slumish life to a upper middle class life with organic expensive food. After getting thousands of dollars for no charge, she ends up saving the money and goes shopping with her daughter, Eden, and gives away one hundred dollars to a homeless woman. She passed another homeless man and gave him what she had left, sixty dollars. The large amounts of money that she gave away meant that those two homeless people could by warm clothing and eat nutritious and full meals for a couple of days.
After reading the Glass Castle and Breaking the Bank, I realized that the stories can be related. At mutiple times in each story, they both had little or no food. While being stuck between books, i explored the unknown experience of connecting books in unlikely ways. A good book can be short and, well, simple but it can still be the greatest book in the world. If you have a personal connection to a book, then it can mean more to you then another book would, or the same book to another person. It depends on a persons perspective to the world and how they live their life in their own unique ways.
Have any thoughts and/or book recommendations?
Another thing that can also be valued or recognized as worthless is a dollar. As we grow older, we realize the importance of a single dollar, but as our younger selves, we were willing to through money in every direction. In Breaking the Bank, the main character Mia Saul, is surprised with what seemed like endless amounts of free money that isn't being noticed by the bank, she jumps from a slumish life to a upper middle class life with organic expensive food. After getting thousands of dollars for no charge, she ends up saving the money and goes shopping with her daughter, Eden, and gives away one hundred dollars to a homeless woman. She passed another homeless man and gave him what she had left, sixty dollars. The large amounts of money that she gave away meant that those two homeless people could by warm clothing and eat nutritious and full meals for a couple of days.
After reading the Glass Castle and Breaking the Bank, I realized that the stories can be related. At mutiple times in each story, they both had little or no food. While being stuck between books, i explored the unknown experience of connecting books in unlikely ways. A good book can be short and, well, simple but it can still be the greatest book in the world. If you have a personal connection to a book, then it can mean more to you then another book would, or the same book to another person. It depends on a persons perspective to the world and how they live their life in their own unique ways.
Have any thoughts and/or book recommendations?
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Money is just a bunch of paper cuts
While reading Breaking the Bank, a book about an average woman who gets excessive amounts of free money, i realized that the world revolves around money. If your rich, you have every thing you can think of, if your poor, you don't know when you will eat again. People judge each other on how much money have. I have noticed that many things in this world are created so that the government or any other company has another way to get money. Its sad how much we rely on something that used to be a worthless piece of paper.
Multiple times i have seen people on the train asking for some kind of food or money. I have been told that they will spend it on beer and drugs but that isn't necessarily true. Yes i am sure that is what some poor people do but many of them are looking for a way to get food for either themselves of their families. When stores or restaurants have that sign that says "NO SHOES NO SHIRT NO SERVICE" they need to understand what it means not to have those basic items. They would be the ones who are getting money so i don't really get the point of that sign.
Once a month i help out in a soup kitchen and it proves how many people need help and are living off of the bear minimum. More people need to help each other so that we can live in an equal world. The Upper class people can donate more money to charities and homeless shelters. Middle class can also donate money and time into shelters and soup kitchens. Lower class can accept the help and benefit from it.
Many things in this world are thought of as a better this or that but they are really money makers. Privet schools provide a "better education" so more parents send their kids to privet schools along with thousands of dollars. The education is the same in both privet and public schools. Why pay more for something you can have for less.
Kids and adults take things for granted. Food and money are both involved. Sure it would be nice if the Government gave away thousands of dollars too every family but it wouldn't mean as much to a family who really needs it compared to a family that can do without it. Sadly money is everything in our world and it shouldn't be.
Life only gets more complected with money involved but we wouldn't be able to servive without it. What do you think?
Multiple times i have seen people on the train asking for some kind of food or money. I have been told that they will spend it on beer and drugs but that isn't necessarily true. Yes i am sure that is what some poor people do but many of them are looking for a way to get food for either themselves of their families. When stores or restaurants have that sign that says "NO SHOES NO SHIRT NO SERVICE" they need to understand what it means not to have those basic items. They would be the ones who are getting money so i don't really get the point of that sign.
Once a month i help out in a soup kitchen and it proves how many people need help and are living off of the bear minimum. More people need to help each other so that we can live in an equal world. The Upper class people can donate more money to charities and homeless shelters. Middle class can also donate money and time into shelters and soup kitchens. Lower class can accept the help and benefit from it.
Many things in this world are thought of as a better this or that but they are really money makers. Privet schools provide a "better education" so more parents send their kids to privet schools along with thousands of dollars. The education is the same in both privet and public schools. Why pay more for something you can have for less.
Kids and adults take things for granted. Food and money are both involved. Sure it would be nice if the Government gave away thousands of dollars too every family but it wouldn't mean as much to a family who really needs it compared to a family that can do without it. Sadly money is everything in our world and it shouldn't be.
Life only gets more complected with money involved but we wouldn't be able to servive without it. What do you think?
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Lies are worthless, Truths are priceless
After rereading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, i realized that i missed so many things when i read it the first time. J.K Rowling has created a world just like our own with just as many problems and things that the average being doesn't understand. She made a kid friendly version of Americas government. The one thing that stood out the most to me was that way she helped me realize that adults hid things from us. Sure we may be a little to young to know the truth when we are nine or maybe even ten, but once we are past eleven, WE NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH!
Some people say that it is better to "wait" to tell a child the truth because they are so "innocent" and young. Well when an adult says lets wait, it usually means its never going to happen. Adults need to know that if they prepare us for the outside world by telling us the truth, then we will have a greater chance of living the dream life instead of having "mommy and daddy" walk us to work every day and give us lunch money. If this is the way we plan to raise our next and future generations, then we we realize our mistake and before we know it, it's going come running out from behind us and knock us senseless.
I think children should be exposed to the truth at a young age. In my opinion, it gives a child a different view on life and they will know that life isn't a big lolly pop and that we can fix the mess that has been passed down through countless generations. It is also extremely annoying and confusing to be told that the life you once led before, no linger exists. It feels like running into a brick wall. at first you are free to move but then you get slammed and struggle to get back up on your feet.
Dumbledore had a reputation that he felt made him who he was and his past would destroy everything he had planed for the future. He didn't want to tell Harry any thing about his past because he was ashamed of himself. Dumbledore didn't realize it, but Harry would have been more accepting and understanding if he told Harry before their limbo between life and death meeting.
Children deserve to know the truth and adults need to learn how to tell the truth before they lead their children into a life of lies.
Some people say that it is better to "wait" to tell a child the truth because they are so "innocent" and young. Well when an adult says lets wait, it usually means its never going to happen. Adults need to know that if they prepare us for the outside world by telling us the truth, then we will have a greater chance of living the dream life instead of having "mommy and daddy" walk us to work every day and give us lunch money. If this is the way we plan to raise our next and future generations, then we we realize our mistake and before we know it, it's going come running out from behind us and knock us senseless.
I think children should be exposed to the truth at a young age. In my opinion, it gives a child a different view on life and they will know that life isn't a big lolly pop and that we can fix the mess that has been passed down through countless generations. It is also extremely annoying and confusing to be told that the life you once led before, no linger exists. It feels like running into a brick wall. at first you are free to move but then you get slammed and struggle to get back up on your feet.
Dumbledore had a reputation that he felt made him who he was and his past would destroy everything he had planed for the future. He didn't want to tell Harry any thing about his past because he was ashamed of himself. Dumbledore didn't realize it, but Harry would have been more accepting and understanding if he told Harry before their limbo between life and death meeting.
Children deserve to know the truth and adults need to learn how to tell the truth before they lead their children into a life of lies.
Monday, November 8, 2010
big eyes and big lips and no waist, OH MY!!!
I was watching TV with my sister the other day when we saw a commercial for Americas next top model. A look of embarrassment and shame came across my sisters face as she quickly changed the channel. Multiple people in my life complain about being "fat" when they don't realize that they really aren't. The media silently says that beautiful women are super skinny, voluptuous, longish hair, big eyes, big lips, and tall. Me being four foot eleven, you might be able to imagine why I would want to be a little taller but i don't really care. I don't see why people who don't think they look like a TV model get so upset. Its only natural to be different and weird in your own ways.
I don't really think that being weird or strange is a burden. I think it only adds to who i really am. The same way the perfect idea of a person can take a lot away from you. When i see some one i care about complain about who they are, i feel like i want to slap them for saying it. If you don't learn to love and accept who you really are, you will never live your life to its fullest. People spend to much time on "perfecting" themselves and not enough time on learning about them selves and the world. People can spend thousands on operations such as plastic surgery and liposuction. I think it's gross, unhealthy and a waste of money. You were meant to live you life in your own skin and your way, not threw a fake skin and the way of life according to People magazine.
I don't see why there is such a need to be perfect. If everyone where perfect, there wouldn't be any new ideas and we would all of us would be horribly self conceited an devoted to our perfectness. A life like that seems like living hell. I have realized that a "picture perfect" image can destroy a person. They will obsess over their looks and personality in self destructive ways when really, they should cherish their differences. Picture perfect isn't normal, being unique is.
I hope this blog helps people see themselves for who they really are and helps them realize that that are perfect in their own ways. If you where at all different, would you still be who you are to day? Think about it, you would want to be who you are right now.
I don't really think that being weird or strange is a burden. I think it only adds to who i really am. The same way the perfect idea of a person can take a lot away from you. When i see some one i care about complain about who they are, i feel like i want to slap them for saying it. If you don't learn to love and accept who you really are, you will never live your life to its fullest. People spend to much time on "perfecting" themselves and not enough time on learning about them selves and the world. People can spend thousands on operations such as plastic surgery and liposuction. I think it's gross, unhealthy and a waste of money. You were meant to live you life in your own skin and your way, not threw a fake skin and the way of life according to People magazine.
I don't see why there is such a need to be perfect. If everyone where perfect, there wouldn't be any new ideas and we would all of us would be horribly self conceited an devoted to our perfectness. A life like that seems like living hell. I have realized that a "picture perfect" image can destroy a person. They will obsess over their looks and personality in self destructive ways when really, they should cherish their differences. Picture perfect isn't normal, being unique is.
I hope this blog helps people see themselves for who they really are and helps them realize that that are perfect in their own ways. If you where at all different, would you still be who you are to day? Think about it, you would want to be who you are right now.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Life, Liberty, and School
I found a very interesting book that was hiding in the back of my bookshelf called The Encyclopedia of Escape. It was a bunch of memoirs written by the students at Louis D. Brandies High School. When we were told to make our blog posts about social justice and action, i figured that this book was perfect. It shows so many different sides to the truth within the lives of others. Many stories stood out to me in many different ways. Some where funny but with deeper meaning and others where really serious and frightening to think about.
The high school process makes everyones life difficult. The pressure to do well and be proud to announce your grades along with puberty really kicking in and family problems. There are also the groups. The popular people and then all of the other groups and they can all be incredibly judge mental. I have realized how it greatly affects our lives. Life as a middle schooler, soon to be in high school, is a really stressful life. To all of those who are going through what I'm going through, i hope it's easier for you and if it isn't, good luck!
Family problems and/or personal problems can take a lot away from a person. Some people complain that their parents are so annoying and they wish they where different while someone else can only dream of what that might feel like and what it really means to be able to go home and say "hi mom, hi dad". Some people can only understand what it means to have to deal with a messed up family through a book but they are really only understanding the bare minimum of it. Some people take for granted what they should cherish most in life.
One story i read was about a young man that was fighting with his father and went to his room. He managed to get stuck behind his bed when he went to hold his dog. It was called "your not greasing me out of here". After he escaped from bed frames grasp with out any help from his parents, who where laughing at him, his father said(speaking truthfully) "Well next time you get stuck, don't even bother getting me". I thought a lot about how a father could and can give up his children so quickly. To be willing to give up everything you had with them, without thinking it over means that you don't really care for this individual. It makes me wonder how many would and how many already have given up on our generation.
One huge problem with society is that they think its wrong to be gay or bisexual. It sounds to me that people think that straight is the new thing like a new pair of shoes that just came out. I support gay rights and i think that anyone should be anyway they want. Your choice of sex isn't a curse. There have been to many recent stories about gay people killing themselves and being rapped and made fun of just so other people can feel good about themselves, it shows how we, as a community, aren't able to accept gay and bisexual people. As a young girl, i used to think that it was wrong for a girl to kiss another girl or for a boy to like another boy. If thats the way we plan to raise our future leaders, then we aren't doing a very good job. Young children need to know that its okay to like who every they want to and be who every they want to be. I think that if we do this, the taunting and harassment will decrease in the future and more people will feel comfortable with who they really are.
On the cover of The Encyclopedia of Escape, there is a combination lock that has numbers that represent letters. In big bold numbers, 20-18-1-16-16-5-4, is on the cover. I used the lock to find out what the numbers meant. 20-T ,18-R, 1-A, 16-P, 16-P, 5-E, 4-D. TRAPPED. Then i realized that all of the stories in this book where about times when the authors felt trapped and weren't able to escape.
The high school process makes everyones life difficult. The pressure to do well and be proud to announce your grades along with puberty really kicking in and family problems. There are also the groups. The popular people and then all of the other groups and they can all be incredibly judge mental. I have realized how it greatly affects our lives. Life as a middle schooler, soon to be in high school, is a really stressful life. To all of those who are going through what I'm going through, i hope it's easier for you and if it isn't, good luck!
Family problems and/or personal problems can take a lot away from a person. Some people complain that their parents are so annoying and they wish they where different while someone else can only dream of what that might feel like and what it really means to be able to go home and say "hi mom, hi dad". Some people can only understand what it means to have to deal with a messed up family through a book but they are really only understanding the bare minimum of it. Some people take for granted what they should cherish most in life.
One story i read was about a young man that was fighting with his father and went to his room. He managed to get stuck behind his bed when he went to hold his dog. It was called "your not greasing me out of here". After he escaped from bed frames grasp with out any help from his parents, who where laughing at him, his father said(speaking truthfully) "Well next time you get stuck, don't even bother getting me". I thought a lot about how a father could and can give up his children so quickly. To be willing to give up everything you had with them, without thinking it over means that you don't really care for this individual. It makes me wonder how many would and how many already have given up on our generation.
One huge problem with society is that they think its wrong to be gay or bisexual. It sounds to me that people think that straight is the new thing like a new pair of shoes that just came out. I support gay rights and i think that anyone should be anyway they want. Your choice of sex isn't a curse. There have been to many recent stories about gay people killing themselves and being rapped and made fun of just so other people can feel good about themselves, it shows how we, as a community, aren't able to accept gay and bisexual people. As a young girl, i used to think that it was wrong for a girl to kiss another girl or for a boy to like another boy. If thats the way we plan to raise our future leaders, then we aren't doing a very good job. Young children need to know that its okay to like who every they want to and be who every they want to be. I think that if we do this, the taunting and harassment will decrease in the future and more people will feel comfortable with who they really are.
On the cover of The Encyclopedia of Escape, there is a combination lock that has numbers that represent letters. In big bold numbers, 20-18-1-16-16-5-4, is on the cover. I used the lock to find out what the numbers meant. 20-T ,18-R, 1-A, 16-P, 16-P, 5-E, 4-D. TRAPPED. Then i realized that all of the stories in this book where about times when the authors felt trapped and weren't able to escape.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Glass Castle
This book has to be my favorite book of all time. I love all books with conflict and this book is overloaded with conflict. The amount of challenges that Jeanette Walls faced changed who she was and her perspective of life. I sometimes think, as everybody does, that my life is to complex and to much to handle and i have good reasons to think so, but this book really changed my mind and made me realize how lucky i really am.
There where many parts of The Glass Castle that broke my heart. It really helped me understand the true hardships of poverty and the way it affects the lives of people and the way they deal with it. The father of Jean (Jeannette) really stood out to me and his strange ways of living life. He didn't care what others thought or did as long as they didn't put him or his family in danger. Lastly, I thought a lot about how people can be pushy without realizing it and force someone into a life they never knew the way the father did to the mother.
There where so many things in this book that broke my heart and changed my idea of lower class life. One thing that made me want to fall down and cry was when Jean was in the hospital for deadly burns on her body ,due to the catching of fire on her dress while she was making hot dogs, and the doctors where operating on her. One of the nurses was talking her through the procedure and was saying "you will be okay" and Jeans response was "I know. But if i'm not, thats okay too". This line came out of a three year old and it amazed me how Jean was able to realize and be okay with something that not even most young adult would be able to do.
The father of Jean was a very interesting character in The Glass Castle. He had a different perspective on life and how to live it. He understood it in a way no one else did. It's sad to say,but the father didn't really accomplish much in life. Yes he was able to build The Prospector and create the plans for The Glass Castle, but he wasn't really there for his wife and kids. Jean didn't grow up the way most people do. she grew up with the bare minimum, without much food, and for a long time, a home to live in for more then a year. He was a hard person to understand and very smart, but not much of a father.
Lastly, this book made me think a lot about the was the father was able to push and convince his family to do things and go places that they didn't want to go. Multiple times Jean and her siblings did things that that they didn't want to do.They didn't want to move from house to house without time to stay a while but they knew That their father would be more then willing to leave them behind and never come back. The mother did want to live with no food, no money, and no permanent home. She loved her husband but she knew she could be living the good life. She wasn't able to leave because her love for him blocked her way.
All in all, i think this book has to be my favorite, i love dramatic books and this book gave me what i wanted. A book with what seems to be to much, but really isn't. The fact that this is a memoir only adds to the book and makes me wonder how jean managed to deal with her complex life.
There where many parts of The Glass Castle that broke my heart. It really helped me understand the true hardships of poverty and the way it affects the lives of people and the way they deal with it. The father of Jean (Jeannette) really stood out to me and his strange ways of living life. He didn't care what others thought or did as long as they didn't put him or his family in danger. Lastly, I thought a lot about how people can be pushy without realizing it and force someone into a life they never knew the way the father did to the mother.
There where so many things in this book that broke my heart and changed my idea of lower class life. One thing that made me want to fall down and cry was when Jean was in the hospital for deadly burns on her body ,due to the catching of fire on her dress while she was making hot dogs, and the doctors where operating on her. One of the nurses was talking her through the procedure and was saying "you will be okay" and Jeans response was "I know. But if i'm not, thats okay too". This line came out of a three year old and it amazed me how Jean was able to realize and be okay with something that not even most young adult would be able to do.
The father of Jean was a very interesting character in The Glass Castle. He had a different perspective on life and how to live it. He understood it in a way no one else did. It's sad to say,but the father didn't really accomplish much in life. Yes he was able to build The Prospector and create the plans for The Glass Castle, but he wasn't really there for his wife and kids. Jean didn't grow up the way most people do. she grew up with the bare minimum, without much food, and for a long time, a home to live in for more then a year. He was a hard person to understand and very smart, but not much of a father.
Lastly, this book made me think a lot about the was the father was able to push and convince his family to do things and go places that they didn't want to go. Multiple times Jean and her siblings did things that that they didn't want to do.They didn't want to move from house to house without time to stay a while but they knew That their father would be more then willing to leave them behind and never come back. The mother did want to live with no food, no money, and no permanent home. She loved her husband but she knew she could be living the good life. She wasn't able to leave because her love for him blocked her way.
All in all, i think this book has to be my favorite, i love dramatic books and this book gave me what i wanted. A book with what seems to be to much, but really isn't. The fact that this is a memoir only adds to the book and makes me wonder how jean managed to deal with her complex life.
Monday, October 11, 2010
The color purple
This book was really moving for me. It opened my eyes to what women used to have to go through. Yes i have read about Americas history and how women were treated like their only purpose was to cook, clean and entertain men. This book talked about what women went through and how they survived through it. One thing that really stood out to me was how women were only meant to pleasure men. Another thing that stood out to me was what men would do to the babies that they forcefully created. Lastly, this book made me think about how men limited what women can, and can not do.There are so many things in this book that i want to explore to get a better understanding of them, these three are a couple that i had a lot to say about.
One big thing that stood out to me was that men only thought of women as toys to pleasure themselves with. they didn't care if the women, like Celie did all of the cooking and cleaning with out any complaints, as well as taking care of the children so you didn't have to do it by yourself even though you had them with another woman. one would think that you would at least have some kind of gratitude to them. Celie would go through this everyday and have to deal with her "loving" husbands wants. i think that the men in that time period shouldn't have thought so highly of themselves if they did this to women.
Another thing that stood out to me and made me mad was that the men who forced themselves onto women, like Celie's father, would get rid of the babies. His first child with her, he killed against her wishes. The second, he sold. He was the one that created that baby so he should be the one to take care of it, not kill it or sell it. Just think about how hard it was on Celie to try to forget about those babies, not to mention, seeing one of her babies a couple years later knowing that to them, she was just another woman like every other one of them. This really made me think about how lucky i, and every one else is, to not have to deal with what Celie went through.
Lastly, this book made me think about how limited women where in that time period. all they did was clean cook, take care of the children, and "provide" for their husbands. They couldn't shop or go out with their friends like we do. they had to stay home and clean what had to be cleaned, cook meals for the day, make sure the children when doing the right thing, and be at home for their husbands. Life for us is so simple but to people like Celie, it really isn't. we think high school is stressful, i can't imagine what it would be like to have to choose the RIGHT husband.
In conclusion, i thought this book was really good and really interesting. it talked a lot about how women were afraid to stand up for themselves and had to let men over power them. this book is a good book to read if u want to learn more about our history.
One big thing that stood out to me was that men only thought of women as toys to pleasure themselves with. they didn't care if the women, like Celie did all of the cooking and cleaning with out any complaints, as well as taking care of the children so you didn't have to do it by yourself even though you had them with another woman. one would think that you would at least have some kind of gratitude to them. Celie would go through this everyday and have to deal with her "loving" husbands wants. i think that the men in that time period shouldn't have thought so highly of themselves if they did this to women.
Another thing that stood out to me and made me mad was that the men who forced themselves onto women, like Celie's father, would get rid of the babies. His first child with her, he killed against her wishes. The second, he sold. He was the one that created that baby so he should be the one to take care of it, not kill it or sell it. Just think about how hard it was on Celie to try to forget about those babies, not to mention, seeing one of her babies a couple years later knowing that to them, she was just another woman like every other one of them. This really made me think about how lucky i, and every one else is, to not have to deal with what Celie went through.
Lastly, this book made me think about how limited women where in that time period. all they did was clean cook, take care of the children, and "provide" for their husbands. They couldn't shop or go out with their friends like we do. they had to stay home and clean what had to be cleaned, cook meals for the day, make sure the children when doing the right thing, and be at home for their husbands. Life for us is so simple but to people like Celie, it really isn't. we think high school is stressful, i can't imagine what it would be like to have to choose the RIGHT husband.
In conclusion, i thought this book was really good and really interesting. it talked a lot about how women were afraid to stand up for themselves and had to let men over power them. this book is a good book to read if u want to learn more about our history.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
I read one flew over the cuckoos nest, by Ken Kesy. I thought it was one of the most amazing books that i have ever read. It was a one of a kind book for me because it was the first book that i read with the truth about mental hospitals and how the patients were treated. It made me think a lot about how some people think they are better then others for many reasons. It also made me think about how judgmental people can be. Lastly, it made me think about cruel people can be. This book really opened my eyes to how people used to treat others because they are different and how people try to hid the truth because the are ashamed to tell it.
This book made me think a lot about how some people think they are better then someone just because another person is different. The person you make fun of for being different could be smarter then you but they just have problems with saying things. This also made me think about what it means to be different and to know you are different. i am a quiet person but i do have the ability to speak when i want to and say thinks i want to say. I don't understand what it means to be unable to say whatever you want and many other people don't understand it as well, so they feel they can taunt and degrade people who they cant understand.
This book also made me think about how judgmental people can be. If someone acts different then they are assumed to be mentally ill. If someone walks different, they are mentally ill. If someone needs more time to understand something, then they are stupid. All of these things, i sure every one who is reading this has done. Some of the people who are in the mental facility are only there on another persons assumption. For example, Chief, people think he is mute and dumb because he chooses not speak and he just ignores everyone. This is the that some minds work in their messed up ways.
Lastly, this book reminds me of how cruel people can be. The way some people can manipulate others mentally is sick! It is disgusting. I think that people,like the nurse, are so intimidated by the "mentally ill" that they put up this wall to either block them out or to humiliate them by putting these thoughts into their minds that they are stupid and unable to survive on their own, and that they are walking dead people with no purpose. Some people get a thrill out of seeing other people suffer. There for, I think people who do this are the messed up ones. they should be the ones to be put into special homes to get help.
In conclusion, i think One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a wonderful book and i recommend it to anyone who needs a book to read. It is probably one of my favorite books because it is so amazing and moving in a way.
This book made me think a lot about how some people think they are better then someone just because another person is different. The person you make fun of for being different could be smarter then you but they just have problems with saying things. This also made me think about what it means to be different and to know you are different. i am a quiet person but i do have the ability to speak when i want to and say thinks i want to say. I don't understand what it means to be unable to say whatever you want and many other people don't understand it as well, so they feel they can taunt and degrade people who they cant understand.
This book also made me think about how judgmental people can be. If someone acts different then they are assumed to be mentally ill. If someone walks different, they are mentally ill. If someone needs more time to understand something, then they are stupid. All of these things, i sure every one who is reading this has done. Some of the people who are in the mental facility are only there on another persons assumption. For example, Chief, people think he is mute and dumb because he chooses not speak and he just ignores everyone. This is the that some minds work in their messed up ways.
Lastly, this book reminds me of how cruel people can be. The way some people can manipulate others mentally is sick! It is disgusting. I think that people,like the nurse, are so intimidated by the "mentally ill" that they put up this wall to either block them out or to humiliate them by putting these thoughts into their minds that they are stupid and unable to survive on their own, and that they are walking dead people with no purpose. Some people get a thrill out of seeing other people suffer. There for, I think people who do this are the messed up ones. they should be the ones to be put into special homes to get help.
In conclusion, i think One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a wonderful book and i recommend it to anyone who needs a book to read. It is probably one of my favorite books because it is so amazing and moving in a way.
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