Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Old Man
This story is the reason I really don’t like literature sometimes especially because I have to read this makes me despise literature more and more each day. I love reading about things I enjoy such as baseball or any sports and about business or leadership. To be honest everything we have read I liked in some way this is the only one that I didn’t like at all. It was to unrealistic for me. I didn’t believe any of it. If I think of an angel I think of glorious, pure creature. But I could also see some angels just being cool and down to earth. If I wanted to be an angel I wanna be the down to earth one that would straight up chill. Them throwing stones at it reminded me of the bible with people got stones. That connection was pretty cool. Some of the stuff in the story kinda lined up with the bible in some ways but then you get to the spider thing and that threw me through some loops and it was just weird. And the crabs, it puzzles me how the crabs give the child a fever. That’s puzzled me more than anything. Kind of ridiculous. It kinda reminded me of freak show when they put him in the chicken coop and it kinda reminded me of how they made a mockery of him and put him with the lowest of lows and nailed him to the cross. I don’t know if Jesus was ever stoned so I’ll have to research more on that. And if you read this post and you know you could save me the time and just tell me. The chicken coop kinda reminded me of, in some weird way, of Daniel and the lions den because the chickens could have done a lot worse and they didn’t. I guess it kinda reminds me of the feeling that Daniel had.
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This post is pretty disappointing. I think that at this point in the semester, you should be long past complaining that you "don't like literature" and get to work trying to figure things out (which, to be fair, you do a very little bit of).
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Ok so I have to agree with you and I’m not that ignorant not too. I have been humbled or have I if I say that I have? Well I have been humbled even if saying makes me not humbled. I have learned a lot this semester especially in reading other literature I don’t usually like. Professor you got me out of my comfort zone where I didn’t like at first but I want to say thank you. After class the other day I told you I wanted to redo my post I am still puzzled by the crabs not sure how the connection is but might just be the nature of the story. When reading this story the unrealistic plot had me in loops but sometimes in life something’s are unrealistic and you just have to push through. So the angels are supposed to be glorious and beautiful and look upon with respect and dignity. In the story it looked at as dirty, a freak of nature, something that just for show. I mean they have the angel in the chicken coop were the lowest of lows but in some ways this reminds me of Jesus being born in the lowest of lows in the manger. This story makes you think of what really you think of not only angels but also God. Someone in class talked about nature and how it connects with this story and I would have never got that out of this story. How the angel could represent nature and how we hurt nature every day. And also how the connection with the homeless and how will look to them came about or how we look at the handicapped or different people. All the connections were amazing. The biggest thing or understanding was what if? Maybe? If the angel was Jesus how would we treat it then if it was dirty and hurt? Would we took care of it or would we throw stones like the Romans. I love the verse that Ben used to talk about entertaining angels and how we need to entertain strangers like they are angels because you never know.
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