Thursday, September 2, 2010
Quotation- Dear John
A quote from the book Dear John would be, "My dad was uninterested in their value. His eyes would dart away whenever I mentioned it, and I soon remembered what I'd somehow forgotten: that to my dad, the pursuit of the coins was far more interesting than the coins themselves,..." This quote is important to the story because his autistic dad's favorite hobby was to collect coins, a hobby wouldn't be a hobby if he did it for money. His dad didn't like the idea of how valuable his coin collection was as long as it made him happy. The universal meaning of this quote is, in my thinking, to live your life to the fullest and not for money or whatever you need. That you shouldn't care what you're doing as long as it makes you happy. You should do something that you enjoy, for example a job, don't become a doctor just for the money while you can't stand being around people or blood. Or marry someone you love not because they are pretty or can buy you nice things. This is what the quote is trying to tell and teach us, you shouldn't be interested if it is just for the money.
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Why do you think people need to be reminded to do things that make them happy? Have you even been in need of that reminder or seen someone else who needed to keep this in mind? You briefly tell your readers what you think of the quotation. This would be stronger if you went into more detail and developed a reason for why this kind of thing is so hard to remember. Or maybe even a discussion about what happens when making money is what makes you happy. Should you then become that doctor or marry that person who "can buy you nice things"? So is this all about internal or external happiness?
ReplyDeleteI think people need to be reminded to do things that make them happy because when they die, they are going to regret how they lived their life. They might of lived a life, but they haven't lived because they worried too much or did things because they had to. I would say this is internal happiness because it brings you happiness from the inside. Though you might be living in poverty or something such as that, doing something you like and living in that situation is giving you internal happiness.
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