The question needs to be asked: do we really know what to do? I'm playing devil's advocate here, because I'm sure a lot of us do know, but are reluctant to at the least. What does that have to do with roads? We know the road our parents want us to go, or our siblings or our friends, but what is our road? There are many ways to respond to this post, but each of them a road that you want us to go whether rhetorical analysis (there is a lot of ethos here) or text to text/text to world/text to self connections. They are all roads we can take, but what road do we take? We do not know at all. When given more freedom than we've clamored for, do we know what to do with it? When given a free hand at an STP, do we know what exactly what we want to say? When given the essay for the independent project, with somewhat vague essay guidelines: did we know what we were going to write? Eventually, we all did... but those first few days after reading the book, there was a long wait before we could put our hands to the keyboard and let our writing take over. Are we all just Holdens at heart? Indecisive and uncertain about where we want to go? Wandering aimlessly through the miasma of life until we strike gold? Sorry. I'm rambling...
I think life is like a board game- no matter how badly you play you'll end up at the end space.
Much like life itself, I think that time between when you begin and end- what you do and how you get there it up to you. So to apply that to the road theme, it's as if we ultimately have all the same destination to get to. What varies is how you get there and how fast you get there.
I certainly don't want to get to the end of the road quickly though.
A road denotatively means a long narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling between two or more points. Everyday we are confronted with new ideas and different interpretations of how we should carry on with our lives. We have to choose the road we want to take, what we or what our parents think is best. In the book "The Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut shows how the character Malachi Constant has an option of going two ways. "Constant was following a damp green path the width of a lawn mower-what was in fact the swath of a lawn mower" (10). Constant chooses neither road and decides to go through the middle. "Impulsively, Constant chose neither one fork nor the other, but climbed the fountain itself" (11). Going against a set path can alter the destiny of a given person, and create a new road to follow with new choices to make. Constant broke the dilemma of going on one of the paths, and created his own showing he has free will. During school it seems as though we have a set path daily, but we can change the path simply by using our free will. Example, during class while taking notes, someone can abruptly standup and walk out the room. The road was shifted and is now out the door, the results of this can be consequences by the teacher or some sort of punishment. My opinion is people are scarred to change the road there on, they don't know what is beyond that path. They are scared of change and the unknown. I am not apart of the class participating in this discussion, but I thought the vague (to my knowing) Blog heading was interesting.
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The question needs to be asked: do we really know what to do? I'm playing devil's advocate here, because I'm sure a lot of us do know, but are reluctant to at the least.
What does that have to do with roads?
We know the road our parents want us to go, or our siblings or our friends, but what is our road? There are many ways to respond to this post, but each of them a road that you want us to go whether rhetorical analysis (there is a lot of ethos here) or text to text/text to world/text to self connections. They are all roads we can take, but what road do we take?
We do not know at all. When given more freedom than we've clamored for, do we know what to do with it? When given a free hand at an STP, do we know what exactly what we want to say? When given the essay for the independent project, with somewhat vague essay guidelines: did we know what we were going to write? Eventually, we all did... but those first few days after reading the book, there was a long wait before we could put our hands to the keyboard and let our writing take over.
Are we all just Holdens at heart? Indecisive and uncertain about where we want to go? Wandering aimlessly through the miasma of life until we strike gold?
Sorry. I'm rambling...
I think life is like a board game- no matter how badly you play you'll end up at the end space.
Much like life itself, I think that time between when you begin and end- what you do and how you get there it up to you. So to apply that to the road theme, it's as if we ultimately have all the same destination to get to. What varies is how you get there and how fast you get there.
I certainly don't want to get to the end of the road quickly though.
A road denotatively means a long narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling between two or more points. Everyday we are confronted with new ideas and different interpretations of how we should carry on with our lives. We have to choose the road we want to take, what we or what our parents think is best. In the book "The Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut shows how the character Malachi Constant has an option of going two ways. "Constant was following a damp green path the width of a lawn mower-what was in fact the swath of a lawn mower" (10). Constant chooses neither road and decides to go through the middle. "Impulsively, Constant chose neither one fork nor the other, but climbed the fountain itself" (11). Going against a set path can alter the destiny of a given person, and create a new road to follow with new choices to make. Constant broke the dilemma of going on one of the paths, and created his own showing he has free will. During school it seems as though we have a set path daily, but we can change the path simply by using our free will. Example, during class while taking notes, someone can abruptly standup and walk out the room. The road was shifted and is now out the door, the results of this can be consequences by the teacher or some sort of punishment. My opinion is people are scarred to change the road there on, they don't know what is beyond that path. They are scared of change and the unknown. I am not apart of the class participating in this discussion, but I thought the vague (to my knowing) Blog heading was interesting.
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