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I did something awesome this week. It happened on Wednesday, and it was a fairly brief event. After getting dressed and ready for school, i started running down the stairs. Usually, i do this with some degree of ease, but on this particular day my feet decided to bum out on me and trip me. Now normally, tripping down the stairs is quite a irredeemable event, but in this case it was. 

As i skidded down some four or five steps, i began to lose balance and start falling back. In a last ditch effort, i threw my weight forward, and by the time i hit the bottom step, i was still on my feet. That was the highlight of my week.  

Outside Reading, Slaughterhouse 5

I just finished reading slaughterhouse five... and i have mixed impressions of the book. I believe that it's literary quality is excellent, and Kurt Vonnegut's writing is top notch. The story was engaging and flowed very well, and it was very easy to get into. The only downside to this, is the extraordinarily depressing mood of the novel. It got to a point where i was actually becoming depressed, and falling deeper into depression, as i continued reading. In credit to the author, it's not the story or characters in particular that are depressing, but the meaning and outlook on life that the story forcefully establishes in your brain.

The imagery in the story, almost entirely scenes of madness, sorrow and death, draw the reader to conclude that he is worthless. The plot of the story, and it's message, that no matter what you do you cannot change your destiny, that every moment of your life is predetermined, and that time is utterly irrelevant can lead one to feel powerless and insignificant. I can compare this to no novel i have read, for nothing in my literary history can compare to such a gruesome representation of death, war, and the meaninglessness of life.

As for my creative project, i have absolutely no idea what i'm going to do...
something war/death/time related
probably on film
But beyond that i have no idea.    

Extending the Theme

While reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there were quite a few plot devices that made connections with me on a level beyond that which is intended by the author. These scenarios ranged from events in the book, to the many subtle nuances and themes which underly the face text. Once such instance is that of Mayella Ewell.
(indent doesn't work?) Mayella comes from extreme poverty, which affects her societal standing as well as other's opinions of her. In my life, I was once friends with a girl who in many ways was similar to Mayella. She was living with her dad from paycheck to paycheck in a state of poverty, and it greatly affected her way of life. She often turned to drugs to quell her inner sadness, and often surrounded herself with those who negatively affected her life and choices.      

This reminds me a lot of Mayella in the sense that she is held prisoner by the class into which she was born, and feels she has to act a certain way to feel loved and accepted.

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