Thoughtful posts from the great minds in Mrs. Dupuy's English I Honors classes.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Assignment #1
In The Five People You Meet In Heaven, the Blue Man teaches Eddie his first lesson: "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." This makes me think of Newton's Law "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." Not that it has to be an opposite reaction, just a reaction in response to another person's action. I do believe in random acts. I believe in random acts such as dropping your spare change into a donation box at a local store for the simple reason that before you headed to the store you had not planned on donating the money to charity, thus making it a random act.
The thought that we are all connected does not make as much sense to me as people simply interacting with one another. If we were all connected, then the action of one person could affect a mass of people. Just the fact that one person does something that affects another does not mean we are all connected to this one action. It just means that one person's action affected another person's reaction. So in my opinion, we are not all connected.
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ReplyDelete"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." I believe that is partially true. Someone living in America would never have any connections with anyone in a country such as China unless the connection was intentional. For example, a person living in the United States might be related to someone in China ,so what the two people do in their different countries could have an impact on the other person.
I believe that there are no random acts. People don't just do things for no particular reason. A person could kick a can on the sidewalk. The person might not have been upset. They just felt like doing it. The rolling can could still have an impact on someone like a person driving in their car. The can might become a distraction for the driver and cause a car accident.