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Seth Sprandel
Mr. Kerr Honors English 1 November 21, 2014 Actions and Reactions Literally Analysis (Option #2) Everything has a cause and effect, a action and reaction. It is a proven fact that everything has a natural reaction, like push goes to shove. But what does this have to do with literature? This is basically the same thing as real life. Everything in a book has an action and reaction just like real life, like cause and effect. The Road has many causes and effects, actions and reactions, simply because everything has a natural reaction. Everything has a reaction, but what does reactions have to do with basic needs of our lives? Without reactions there is no actions in life, so reactions need to happen. Without actions or reactions, our life would be a mess. Considering the human brain thinks what would happen if you if you do something. The human mind always thinks about the reaction that could happen. Mainly because we don’t want to get in trouble or we like to think things through. What do reactions and actions have to literature? It’s actually a lot like life. The characters act like humans very similarly. In The Road the main characters really think about the consequences. When they see a house, they decide whether or not to go look inside the house. It’s either because of bad people are going to be inside or other horribly reasons like dead people or a waste of time. Here is an example of doing an action that causes a reaction in The Road, “What is this place, Papa? Shh. Let’s just stand here and listen. There was nothing. The wind rustling the dead road-side bracken. A distant creaking. Door or shutter. I think we should take a look. Papa let’s not go up there. It’s okay. I dont think we should go up there. It’s okay. We have to look.” (105-106) What the boy and man are deciding whether or not to go check the house. But the boy thinks that there's something wrong with that house. Something is not right, but the man thinks about it. It’s because he thinks that there might be something in there. So they both decide to try to listen for anything that sounds suspicious from the house. They hear no sounds except a creaking noise from a door a shutter. This causes a reaction since no one is in there to check out if anything is in the house. Here is another example that something caused a reaction in The Road, “He slung their knapsacks over his shoulder and they tore through the crumbling bracken. The boy was terrified. Run, he whispered. Run. He looked back. The truck had rumbled into the view. Men standing in the bed looking out. The boy fell and he pulled him up. It’s all right, he said. Come on.” (61) They see the bad guys, which causes them to react and run for their life. They got away luckily. Now with every action has a reaction like I have been saying, but what actions do I do that causes reactions. Well, I did something like play video games when I was not supposed to and the reaction I got was getting grounded. But with this these are present choices that I am making. What about future choices and effects of those choices. Some of my choices that I have for the future are plentiful. I would like to go to college, maybe be a teacher. I might decide on a different choice later in my life. But to go to college, I have to be able to get through high school, and have enough money to go to college. With that, I have the choice to get a job when I turn 16 so I can get money to save up for college, or even maybe a car. And with that, I have the choice to get a banking account. The choices go on for being able to go to college. But if you have one major action that you want to do, say college for an example, is there a bunch of different choices to make for that choice? Each leading into another consequence that may lead to a whole different action? Say that I want to go to college and I become a high school drop-out. That could cause a whole new different reaction! The possible reactions of every action is endless. There could be at least 1,000 different possibilities. Now there are a bunch of possibilities that can go with actions and many of them can be good or bad. But we all know that the The Road helped us see some light on this subject. With some of the man and boy’s actions, they tell us that everything has a reaction and consequence. The Road really does help. The ending of the book really made me mad and sad. Well, the father died at the end of the book, which made me sad. But the fact that the child was left alone with a complete strangers that the boy doesn't know. Luckily those strangers are a nice family but the man of that family didn't let the child put the man anywhere. The man wasn't put in a proper sepulchre that would considered him to be laid to rest. But luckily the man and boy spent their last times together at the coast with boats. Vacating boats and looking at the tidewrack, these were good memories.
I thought I would share my love poem since I have been thinking about love a lot.
Love Love, what is it? Is love an emotion? Is it something that is physically real? I felt love a few times in life. It was a weird feeling most of the time. The thing about those crushes was that I couldn’t confess my love. And usually they end up with someone else… Love...A very destructive force that can ruin someone's heart. It ruined my heart a couple times... |
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