Bashkim Response
In my book true notebooks i think that mark is personally gonig thru a situation were he is in fact strugelling. I think that mark is strugelling to become a new more developed person. I think that mark is struggleing to become a more understanding person who has a deeper look at reality wich gives him the ability to see that its not just the children who commits these crimes faults but that its also societies falut as well. I think that mark is in a situation were he is facing anotother hardship because Sister Janet had offerd him to play the Chellow in front of a group of kids at the Juvinille Center. And he dosent want to suffer ridicule at the hands of the kids that hes suppose to be helping. I respect Mark, he could of simply said No, i dont want play the chello but instead mark said yes and accepted the invitiation. Tho at one point he was trying to decline, he still gave in to Sister Janet and cooperated with her. I use to feel like i had to do better than other people or someone else. The pros was that i played basket ball better. The con was that i had to lower my potiental success by focusing on simply doing better than the next man.
But now i feel like whats important is just doing the best that i could possible do. I know that may sound kind of like a cleche but i think that thats terribly true. Like i really bieleve that if i did the best that i could do and just focued on doing the best that i could do then it would make a major change in my life. But in the past I use to play basket ball and i always wanted to feel that i had did better than anyone else. and so every time i played the goal was to be the best and to do better than any one else.
Carmelo Response
I think that the boys are conforming into a positive group within themselves inside of the writing class. I think that it is so many bad things that the boys could be into but the fact that they come together to talk about tere lives and the things that they had went to frees them of all of the guilt and any negative emototions that would seek to hold them victim to there violent past. I belive that the writing is a tool that also brings them together. I think that because the are writing and reading loud the S.A.s it exposes the boys at their most vulnerable time. I think that that being aware of each others vulnerabilities brings the boys closer together. At the end of the day weather not the boys know it or not they have already begin to conform by agreeing to pour out their hearts on papaer. The question is are the boys conforming in a negative way or a positive way. I would say they are conforming in a positive way.
I have been a group were i had felt I conformed. And I felt that i had conformed in a negative way. Back in grade school when i was hanging with a groups of guys whose morals were lower than mine. and by bieng with them my morals had changed over time. it was not for the good so eventually i had to leave that group of guys and find another group that i had natrually blended with. Since then i conform less and less to negative groups. and more, and more to positive groups. I just feel like there is so much that im suppose to do in life and in order to fufill the big goals i set out for myself i need to make sure that i am around the right groups so that when i do conform i have the right conformaty.
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