Blog #3: Dead Poets Society

Some of the lessons which Mr. Keating is teaching his students are about "Seize the Day". Seize the Day means that you should live your life to the fullest. He was telling his students that you should live your life to the fullest, because one day you will end up dead. In "Catcher" Holden's teacher teaches him about "Playing by the Rules". These two lessons completely contrast each other, because seizing the day means getting what you want and living to the very best you can, where playing by the rules would be considered a more serious topic in which the person is always scared about getting into trouble. I think we should seize the day and live it to its best, but it is often very hard to do this when we have all these rules, which plays into the topic Life is a game, Play by the rules."

Blog #2: Life is a game

I do agree with Mr. Spencer's statement, "Life is a game, you play by the rules." I believe that this statement is true, because we are constantly called upon to follow the rules. In the case of our lives these rules would be laws. Other rules that we play by are the rules which our parents make for ourselves. If you don't play by the rules in a sports fame, you get a penalty or in soccer's case you receive a red or yellow card. In life if you do not follow by the rules you get sent to jail or to court for a hearing. There are many things in which you can compare and contrast over how life is a game or how it isn't. My main reason for believing that life is a game is the rules in it, and in life also some win and some loose. There are constantly moments in our lives which we would consider winning moments or loosing moments. That is why I do think that life is a game.

Blog #1: Seymour and the Banana fish

Seymour is similar to the Banana fish in many ways. Seymour says to Sybil that a bananafish is a normal fish, until they swim into a banana hole and they gorge themselves on bananas. Then they become to fat and they then die. He is similar to this because he came back from war and he is now a totally different person. Muriel describes Seymour to her mother and mentally unstable, and incapable of functioning normally in a social environment. So just as the bananafish came out of the banana hole as fat, Seymour comes out of World War II as a different person who is socially awkward and mentally different. Also just as the bananafish dies eventually once they come out of the banana hole from being fat, Seymour also died from killing himself which I believe the reasoning behind this is from the after war effect on him. That is how Seymour is similar to the bananafish.