Dayan's Spicy Ideas

September 26 It’s hard to find out that the person you’ve been with the longest is actually a stranger. Someone who in reality you don't know anything about. Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses this idea in his story Young Goodman Brown by showing us that reality is altered and not everything is what it seems. The blind eye cant capture everything if seeing is what they're mean to do, what they couldn't capture is still there regardless. In the story we come across an old man, who if you didn't focus on him is just an elder person, but hes much more than seconds away from death. This old man represents our fallen angel, Lucifer.

September 24 When the author is in the room, the discussion seems limited, unless you’re a hard core critic then most of the contributions are positive criticism. You speak good of what the author wrote. Or what the author is saying. When they aren’t in the room is so easy to voice the disgust from the reading. If you found it boring or not. Conversations from “This could use more ...” to “This is boring, I hate it.” To hear things directly from an author can also be very lecturing. You can ask for clarification or if your thinking is too far fetched. Especially if the author understand you and is making a connection. Then having a author and reader connection is like learning from a teacher.

September 23 Hawthorne purpose for writing Old Goodman Brown was to show how people can be deceiving. His wife's name being faith does not fit her in the way that Brown was demonstrating. To herself faith could be a suiting name, in his case she wasn’t as faithful as her name. The pink ribbons signify purity in the beginning of the story, sort of like young love and that newly marriage love kind of thing. Between the story the ribbons fall and that can signify purity leaving or failing in a way. What he had experienced was merely a fragment of his imagination in my option. His wife had left him with that suspicion of doubt that something bad was going to occur, so he already had thoughts that were accessing his brain. “Poor little faith” he says and his innocence to her allows these wicked thoughts from taking over so easily. The old man can be interpreted as a greater evil or the devil. “The devil screamed an old woman.” And like the devil, the serpent is also a connection made w...

September 20 In the story, Unwind by Neal Shusterman, we explore a dystopian fiction world where anything the the author writes is law. Conner, an adolescent boy, wanted to have a carefree fun summer when he discovers that he’s about to be unwound. Unwinding only happens to the troubled kids who no one really wants to put up with or that no one wants. But their parts are wanted. Unwound kids get taken in and their limbs are separated from their bodies to help others who need them. Conner, like any teenage boy who has a life ahead of him, runs away to avoid being a donor against his choice. We as readers can criticize the book but have no right to question what the author has been trying to say because it’s fiction, the author can write as many unnatural laws of physics or nature just because. With his story, Shusterman seems like a man who sleeps in late, letting his dreams take over and refusing to let them go. A gentle tea meditation man. Someone who can be a nightmare in their sle...

August 30 Unwind by Neil Shusterman takes you on a roller coaster the first 50 pages. You’re introduced to people who recycle kids when they’re misbehaved. We find out one kid can’t let his girlfriend alone and ended up getting dumped by her. We meet a kid who wants to be recycled because that’s what his religion would have wanted.

August 19 As people, we accept the love we think we deserve. Everywhere around us we see good people in relationships with questionable creatures. A person who think they don’t deserve the best or happiness they don’t look for someone who can make them smile, they get stuck with someone who doesn’t appreciate them because they think that’s all they should get. Love is international, anyone can feel love if it’s for a person or an object. Someone can go a lifetime without being jealous of someone but loving is different. You can love to make yourself feel worthless, you can love to hurt others. Everyone understands love, if it’s wearing your boyfriends/girlfriends sweater to sniff their scent or that bright smile one gets when they see their favorite animal.  We can’t decide one form or one right way to love and that’s what make it so pleasing. You can love in your own way and have comfort in that. What needs to be understood is that no one is ever gonna love like you do and y...

August 15 When we’re younger we’re taught that our opinions are based off what the teacher thinks, or your parents beliefs. If you’re mom doesn’t like chicken she’s not gonna cook it and you’re going to grow up not knowing what chicken is. You’re parents beliefs are pushed down onto the kid, but no one says you should have the same views as them. We reach an age where we decide on our own what’s right from wrong and at first it’s not with the best judgement because we were allowed to have our own opinions on things. Once we discovered that we can have a different vie, other views became a threat because then you wouldn’t have been heard. We can’t share opinions because everyone is offended that their view wasn’t appreciated or taken as they wish. As people we can say what ever we chose with the exception that we don’t insult, hurt or damage anyone in anyway. We’re censored with our options we have limited speech. We just have more freedom per say than those who don’t live in the Unit...