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?
nice! I agree with you on how things that value so much to some people can really mean nothing. Also, very small things can be worth so much to some people, as well. I think you should read "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, and while it is a VERY SLOW read, it makes you think of otherwise useless objests in another way.
ReplyDeleteyou are so right, they are moments where somebody gives me the smallest things ever but it means to me so much that they even thought about me, and I think is the thought that counts.
ReplyDeleteI love the way you connected the two books together and show how they were related, without really saying so. AWESOME POST!!!!!!! :)