Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Lit circle response to question.

So, in Humanities, we started another five weeks of lit circles, and this time, I got the book "The Giver", by this guy called Louis Lowry, So it's about this guy, Jonas, who lives in a Utopia (perfect) society, and all of a sudden, he gets chosen to be the "receiver of memories", a really rare job that only one person gets. But, enough on the story, just read the book, The discussion question I chose today, was: Would you want your future to be decided by others ? Why or Why not? well, I have not got a fixed answer, as there are both good, and negative reasons for why and why not

I chose "it is a good idea to let others choose my future" as a good thing , think,how Are we going to live our lives? I think it would be ideal for others to decided by others, is, Everything would be planned out, there can be no flaw in my life's plan, Nothing could go wrong, not if everything was carefully planned. No thinking required, If I just live according to the plan.

But on the other hand, I think that my life shouldn't be planned out by other people, I think It is up to me to think for myself, what job would best suit me best? What am I going to do with my life? I don't think anybody for myself, How would you like it if You didn't like fish, but you only are interested in knowing more only just before the ceremony of twelves, you might have gotten stuck with fish hatchery person, when you wanted to be a nurturer. That would really mess the rest of your life up...








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  1. AnonymousMarch 16, 2011 at 6:13 PM

    Owen,
    Nice blog post. I could see some of the the topics and ideas we talked about in our discussion came out in your blog post. Like the pro's and con's about having your future decided for you. You explained these ideas in more detail on your blog post. In fact they were so detailed and persuasive, I even reconsidered my own opinion.
    The only piece of advise I have for you is that you should try to make your writing more sophisticated. You sound like your talking with your friends, when you are striving to sound as mature, old and sophisticated as possible. Try using less slang words and phrases that you would use when talking to your friends. (eg, mess your life up, guy)
    Overall I liked the post I thought it was good. There were a few mistakes but they could be easily fixed.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 16, 2011 at 6:36 PM

    Your blog post is nicely done. You supported your opinion with the book well. However, I think you should add some more examples. Additionally, I agree with Stephanie that you have to write more sophisticated. For example, you called the author "a guy" which I think it is kind of rude. If you fix these problems, I think you will be able to get better grades.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 23, 2011 at 10:16 PM

    My writing style!
    but you know, i want to try different writing styes, so you'll probably see different styles of writing later

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