This is my first year ever that I've had a blog and it has been an interesting experience for me. I learned a lot about myself as a reader by having this blog, I realized that I am better at thinking deeply about plot than I am about author's purpose or themes in the text. For example i would prefer to discuss what is happening in the story then to discuss what themes or messages the author put in the book.
I benefited from this experience in a few ways. One way that i benefited from having a blog is that I can more easily keep track of my thinking when I read. For example, when I didn't have a blog to write my thoughts in, I would always have to look back at the book to remind myself what I read recently. But with a blog I can write down my thoughts and easily access my thoughts by looking at my previous posts.
I think that people can be more real online or they can also make up personalities. If a person is happy with themselves and their personality, then the won't find the need to make up fake personalities and characters. But if a person isn't happy with themselves or their personalities, then they may find the need to make up characters online.
I think that people definitely take advantage of being on the internet and people absolutely say things on the internet that they would never say to a person's face. I think people do this because anyone can seem threatening on the internet and it may seem like the internet can protect them so no harm will come to them so they can do anything.
Overall, my experience using blogger has been a positive one. I have benefited from it on several ways, I learned things about my reading habits and about the habits of everyone on the internet, but despite all of these positive things I cannot see myself continuing this blog in the future because I really don't have want to have to be responsible for an ongoing project such as that.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Philosofamily Book: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is a touching story about a boy named Oskar who lost his father in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11th 2001. As Oskar continues on throughout his life, he is having trouble getting over his father's death which is understandable. And Oskar begins to do everything that he can to still hold on to a little piece of his father. This raises the question: is it ethical to move on after someone you care about dies?
When someone dies there are 5 stages of loss and grief. The first stage is denial and isolation when you refuse to accept that something like this could happen and you hide yourself from the rest of the world. The second stage is anger, this is when you begin to take out your frustrations on everything around you and you feel that what happened was unfair and it makes you hate everything. The third stage is bargaining and this is when you begin to think of the "what ifs" and you make promises to the world in exchange for what you want. The fourth stage is depression, and this is the stage where everything falls apart and it is impossible to be happy or to have anything make your life good. The final step is acceptance. People can look at acceptance in many different ways, they can see it as you realizing that all the other stages were irrational, or that you find that you want to move on. But moving on does not have to be the same thing as forgetting someone or something that happened. It just means that it is you not wanting to deny, be angry, bargain, or be depressed anymore. For example, for the people who died on September 11th like Oskar's father, we had our time that we were going through the stages of grief, but now people have continued to live out their lives and continued to be happy, but this doesn't meant that the people who died were forgotten, we still honor them and remember them in our hearts and we honor them every year on September 11th.
So although this can still be challenged, I think that it is ethical to move on after suffering a loss because it allows you to be happy and you still remember what you are moving on from, because what you are really moving on from is not the person who passed, but the stages of grief that caused you pain. So in this sense, I believe that Oskar should be able to move on after his father's death, and so should anyone who suffers a loss.
When someone dies there are 5 stages of loss and grief. The first stage is denial and isolation when you refuse to accept that something like this could happen and you hide yourself from the rest of the world. The second stage is anger, this is when you begin to take out your frustrations on everything around you and you feel that what happened was unfair and it makes you hate everything. The third stage is bargaining and this is when you begin to think of the "what ifs" and you make promises to the world in exchange for what you want. The fourth stage is depression, and this is the stage where everything falls apart and it is impossible to be happy or to have anything make your life good. The final step is acceptance. People can look at acceptance in many different ways, they can see it as you realizing that all the other stages were irrational, or that you find that you want to move on. But moving on does not have to be the same thing as forgetting someone or something that happened. It just means that it is you not wanting to deny, be angry, bargain, or be depressed anymore. For example, for the people who died on September 11th like Oskar's father, we had our time that we were going through the stages of grief, but now people have continued to live out their lives and continued to be happy, but this doesn't meant that the people who died were forgotten, we still honor them and remember them in our hearts and we honor them every year on September 11th.
So although this can still be challenged, I think that it is ethical to move on after suffering a loss because it allows you to be happy and you still remember what you are moving on from, because what you are really moving on from is not the person who passed, but the stages of grief that caused you pain. So in this sense, I believe that Oskar should be able to move on after his father's death, and so should anyone who suffers a loss.
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