Thursday, November 6, 2008

Lets get to know eachother

So recently, the past day for me; the past three for the rest of the class, has been enveloping themselves in the wonderful world of college literature. It has been an exciting first few days filled with an eclectic group of people. As we have read and evaluated the readings assigned, we have been faced with questions regarding the either rude, unusual, or unaccepted actions of fictional characters. With both of the stories, "Every Little Hurricane" and the "Sutton Pie Safe", we were introduced to people with little background information up front. We had to make our decisions on what kinds of people the characters but what they said, did, and how the others reacted to them. Similar to this is our own interactions with people that we meet within our own lives. We are automatically assigning people with our first impressions and have a hard time to change them without a lot of interaction with that person. i dont see this changing anytime soon because this is the human nature and has in one way or another become the accept means of first interacting with people.

5 comments:

Michael Flaherty said...

I as well liked the way we judged these characters without even knowing much about them. It's fun to presume things.

Cody Dederich said...

Nice connection to all of our readings so far.

-Native Americans are alcoholics

-The father is a lousy cheater

-Friendly young man is con artist.

(ps: your blog name is awesome)

Daniel DeBoer said...

But then don't you have to ask yourself why someone would be different than themselves for a first impression. Aren't people expressing who they are with every move they make?

Not to take it to the extreme that Cody did, drinking at a party and being an alcoholic are two completely different things, but don't we define ourselves with our actions?

Lisa said...

Sad, but true. We tear people apart with our harsh judgement, just as we tear apart our readings for a "deeper meaning." People are so quick to make judgements on both people and literature that sometimes they miss the bigger picture. By then though, it's usually too late to change their mind, which I think is sad.

Great connection by the way!

Jimmy said...

Maybe if I knew your REAL name I'd be able to make a better comment but until then I have to agree with you. We shouldn't have to hack and claw at something for 9709481324982 years to find its true meaning. If the author hides it that well, then just maybe he didn't put a deeper meaning in it. Please don't sick your English teacher friends on me Kunkle D: