Blog 4

 In both "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and Into the Wild the sons have problems with their family aspect. In the book Into the Wild Chris is looking for a way to be himself and break free from the perfect son idea his father has put on him. He looks for himself by traveling into the wild and doing what he truly wants to be.
In the movie "Fantastic Mr. Fox" the son, Ash, is always looking for ways to impress his dad and get his attention. In one scene he's trying to jump into the pool with his cousin, Kristofferson. He yells for his dad's attention and then jumps into the pool. His dad doesn't say much but when his cousin jumps in his dad yells with excitment and gives him lots of compliments causing Ash to feel extremley jelous of his cousin.
In the book Into the Wild the reader finds out that his relationship with his father isn't the best. You hear about the fighting between his mom and dad, the affair his dad had, and how his dad has all these plans for Chris without even asking him if that's what he wanted to do. I think though that the reason Chris was so against being home was becasue of all the fighting."It was a stressful existence. Both Walt and Billie are tightly wound, emotional, loath to give ground. now and then the tension erupted in verbal sparring. in moments of anger, one or the other often threantened divorce. The rancor was more smoe than fire, says Carine, but "I think it was one of the reasons Chris and I were so close. We learned to count on each other when Mom and Dad weren't getting along." Pg 107 Chapter 11.
So in both of these stories the son is looking for ways to impress or get back at their parents. Chris is tired of being underneath his dad's hopes and dreams instead of his own. While Ash is tired of not having any of his dad's attention, and feeling like his dad doesn't care.

Blog Post 6-House episode

I sympathize with Cameron the most. Not just because she's a woman but because she is always looking for the best way to help the patient. She is always looking out and trying to help the patient by being nice and all that jazz.She's quite nice. The character I sympathize with the least would have to be Dr. House because he can be a real ass sometimes. He is a good doctor but he's let all that get to his head I believe. Now he knows he's the best so he feels free to do whatever he wants. I mean that can be a good idea because in the end he does always find the cure and fix the patient. Dr.House goes back forth between a growth mindset and fixed. I think that most of the time though he is stuck in a fixed mindset.

The morals of the story differ from mine because in some of these cases they really don't care about the patient and are just being scientist trying to figure out all these different hypothesis when in the end it could kill the patient. I don't think that that's right. In my opinion I think that the characters don't face much of a consequence if what they do it wrong. Like for an example in on scene House believes he doesn't need to get permission to run certain tests on his patient so he goes a long and does what he think. Dr. Cuddy though has a problem with this and tells him no, but he goes a long and pretends that she didn't say anything and in the end she just lets him do it. The only consequence they might have is if their patient dies, but that only happens a few times in this show.

I think that the lesson being taught in this episode is go with your instinct. Even if you think what you could be doing could be dangerous if you truly believe it's right then mine as well go with it. In this episode House feels that he knows what's right when he thinks that steroids will help them narrow down

 

The Lottery-Blog post 5

When Shirley Jackson first published “The Lottery”, she was bombarded with bad reviews and angry letters and phone calls. However, Jackson maintained that her story was relevant to society, its morals and its values. From a moral and philosophical standpoint, why do you believe Jackson wrote this story? What lessons was she trying to teach? Also, how do the characters of Tessie Hutchinson, Old Man Warner and the townspeople reflect the members or groups of our society? (Keep in mind that one character in the story may reflect an entire group of society).

I believe that Shirley Jackson wrote this story because she felt like it. It was an idea in her head that she wanted to express through writing and share with others. I think that she was trying to teach people that not all traditions are ment to stay. The stoning of humans just isnt' the best tradition to keep up in my opinion. Old Man Warner, I believe is suppose to reflect on the older generation and that they will always just be there comparing and contrasting between when they were young and that time period to the present time. They might not always agree with what's going on in the now, heck they rarely do that, but they will always just give in to the new traditions because they know that there's no use trying to fight it. Like the saying goes, "Times they are a changin." Tessie Hutchinson refelects the younger people in life who once things start to go sour and they're involved try to get out of it and blame it on being unfair. When it comes to being stoned to death though I can see where she's coming from. Over all this story to me was quite strange and to be honest I don't really see the whole purpose of why we read it.

Blog 3

My understanding of Chris has a changed a lot throughout the novel. I now understand his motivations for going Into the Wild a little more.
In the book it tells us about how Chris's parents would fight got stressed out easily. I belive this effected his choice of going into the wild because all the fighting made him not believe in love or something like that. "It was a stressful existence. Both Walt and Billie are tightly wound, emotional, loath to give ground. now and then the tension erupted in verbal sparring. in moments of anger, one or the other often threantened divorce. The rancor was more smoe than fire, says Carine, but "I think it was one of the reasons Chris and I were so close. We learned to count on each other when Mom and Dad weren't getting along." Pg 107. In this chapter we also learn that when Chris was young he was introduced to climbing with his dad. They both bonded over this and Chris learned that he was a natural at it. "Chris was fearlesswven when he was little," he sayd after a long pause. "He didn't think the odds applied to him. We were always trying to pull him back from the edge." Pg. 109. From the beginning we know that he has always loved to live life on the edge and challenge himself since everything came so easily to him. Knowing all of this makes sense that he would want to go into the wild and live off the land. It was just another challenge to him that he figured he would conquer.