Society of others Chapter 1
November 7, 2008
Jesssica Lucas
Two opposite statements that are true are I like speaking French, I don’t like speaking French. The two statements are true because I do like speaking French but at the same time I don’t like it either. The point of view of the narrator of the story society of others about having money is true because people sell different items to people but the people who sell those items buy other items from other people. I don’t agree with the narrator when he says he sees things as they are because he only sees the negative part of all the different situations and not the positive that he gets from each experience he passes through. I don’t agree that nature is selfish and that all creatures kill to survive because it is no true because not all the creatures kill to survive some don’t need to kill to be able to survive they can plant their food and also creatures help each other. I don’t agree that love is a mechanism to propagate the species because if it as only for that then how come people are still together and they haven’t left the person they are with. I do agree that beauty is a trick that fades because beauty is not forever it fades with the years. I don’t agree that friendship is an arrangement for mutual advantage because friends don’t expect nothing on exchange the help each other. I do agree that goodness is not rewarded and that evil is not punished. I do believe that religion is just a superstition. Also I do believe that death is annihilation because there is nothing else to live for. I do agree that God stopped caring of human centuries ago because everyone is making their own purposes for their lives. I don’t agree with the narrator’s point of view about school because students lean different thing even if they thin they don’t learn anything. I think that when the narrator says that when a person is on a mountain they can’t see is he refers that a person cannot see what they have accomplished because they already have it. The narrator does not have a good relationship with his parents because his parents want him to have a life and a job but he disagrees because he says that they should take care of him because they gave him life and he was born and now they have to take care of him. The narrator does not have a good relationship with his girlfriend because he does not want her he is only with her for sex. The narrator has a negative attitude overall because he only sees the negative part of everyone and everything. Three quotes that show an existential point of view are “Love is a mechanism to propagate the species, this is existential because people think tat they are only with one woman to propagate the species. Another quote is “religion is a superstition” people think this way because there is no evidence that there is a God. A last example of this is the quote “Nothing. I’ m tired by nothing. Nothing exhausts me.” A person that is existentialist is that they is no purpose of doing anything.
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