Thursday, May 21, 2009
What is your narrative?!?!?!
Alright, folks, let's hash it out here. Write out your thoughts on your narrative. What do you plan to do? How does it apply to 1984 and Brave New World? How do your plans in life prevent these two extremes from happening? Why do you think that is a good thing? Basically, just write out your thoughts, and the rest of us can be Mr. Bruno and say, "Is that REAALLY your narrative?! *eyebrow movement*"
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I'm a little confused on how to approach this.
ReplyDeleteAm I writing my beliefs about life?
Or the beliefs that make me decide what I want to do with my life?
And what if I have no idea what I want to do with my life yet?
I feel like this is the hardest paper we've had to do and I'm quite lost.
It's about what you believe and how that affects your purpose for existing. You believe certain things. Those beliefs affect the way you see the world and all of its problems, so for what problems are you here to try and solve?
ReplyDeleteI think I'm doing something on the repercussions of being indecisive, but I don't quite have it yet.
ReplyDeleteWe you don't, aren't capable of, or are not permitted to make decisions, you life is thrown into the hands of someone else. The outcome may then not be for /your/ benefit, but that other person.
What fun is life, no, what is the point of life if you don't live it yourself. Or for yourself for that matter.
I haven't quite worked out the rest of it yet...
So how does that affect your outlook on life? Are you a go-getter? How does that contribute to your purpose for being here?
ReplyDeleteGreg explained the idea of a narrative very well! “It’s about what you believe and how that affects your purpose for existing. You believe certain things. Those beliefs affect the way you see the world and all of its problems, so for what problems are you here to try and solve?” I feel as though my purpose for existing is to become a mother. Although I want to go to college, succeed in my chosen field, and attain a career, I ultimately want to have a family. In the novel, Brave New World, life is not valued. Individuals are mass produced; therefore their existence is not as special as the existence of one created through the original means of reproduction. A mother greatly values the life of her child because life is the most sacred gift in existence. In addition, through creating individuals in test tubes as in Brave New World, the original process of reproduction loses its value. In my narrative I also thought I would include several problems, in my opinion, of our own society, such as abortion and the idea of sex as a casual occurrence. Once everything is all tied together I am not really sure if it will work but we’ll see.
ReplyDeleteOh and does anyone know of any ways in which I would relate 1984?
I'm glad I read this before I got too far into my paper.
ReplyDeleteThanks for explaining this.
I hope I can bring everything together.
I have a few thoughts. But for the sake of this blog, I'll post one of them.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is more precious to live life for a loved one than to die for one. What better way to express love for another than to wake up every morning just to set eyes on them, to want nothing more than to hear them speak, walk beside them, engage in hour-long conversations without one word being spoken? And knowing, at the end of the day, all else aside, they are your reason for existing.
Just a thought.
Maybe I should have read this BEFORE writing my paper because now I have the sneaking suspicion that I was a little off-base.
ReplyDeleteA few comments, Luke, your post was adorable and Greg, you make a very nice surrogate for Mr. Bruno.
Unfortunately, I'm blogging about this only after I already turned in my paper, but I basically wrote about how I dream of being a successful writer. I talked about how my friendships and my beliefs in the self and my incredible interest in entertainment (television) is what inspires and keeps me motivated to do what I do. They are my apple juice in the morning and continue to push me onward. I love writing and at this moment I couldn't see myself doing anything else...maybe teaching, but that's still far out there. I've always been involved in writing since 5th grade and getting that creative writing award at the senior awards made me feel like I'm on the right path. I just hope it's enough in the future. :)
ReplyDeletei had no idea how to put 1984 and brave new world into my narrative. so i didn't. this assignment definitely made me think about my future tho. i realized that i live through quotes. "and when all else fails, dance." "life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." things like that that i've heard throughout my life are leading me. i have a passion for sports and helping people which is why i am going to college to major in athletic training. and yes, mr. bruno, my passion is strong enough to keep me on that course no matter what happens.
ReplyDeleteI think I didn't do my assignment well after our discussion yesterday. But I think we had a really good discussion yesterday about what exactly is "purpose" and how do you define it. If you don't define it then you are left to others defining it for you. When I got the assignment I thought it meant what is your purpose from a higher power, in which it is hard to know. But also Brendan made a good point that purpose is what drives you in your life. My purpose based off Brendan's interpretation would be then to be a well established engineer and I hope to work with the green industries to make improve our planet and depending on where my life is after college, I would also like to perhaps do Peace Corps for a year or two because I find that it would be a great personal experience and I would get to work hands on with improving people of other countries. This can relate to the novels because I felt that the societies of the novels used their technological resources wastefully because they weren't helping anyone. I would like to help people using my technological resources and knowledge in my engineering career.
ReplyDeletebasically i think i was way off with my narrative and should have definitely read the blog before i wrote it. but i just wrote about how ive become what ive become and how being the way i am is affecting the decisions that i am making today. i also wrote about where i do want to go with my life and how i came up with that. i said that i did want to be a teacher but after teacher piano lessons realize that i am not a patient person at all and so that probably would not be the best route for me. thanks for being so patient with us mr. bruno (with me).
ReplyDeleteI wrote mine about the problems caused by being indecisive and not assertive. It can create alot of problems and cause you to miss out on a lot of opportunities.
ReplyDeleteMy purpose is to perform, for myself, for my family, for God for enjoyment. I think that the best thing in the world is to inspire people to dream and do what they love! I don't know if I do that for everyone, but I think I've done that for at least one person, and if I can inspire people even for one night, I think I've done something rigtht.
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