The End of the book and leading up to it was full of imaginary characters and romantic irony. It talks about how once something is imagined then it lives on its own, or if an idea is created, it grows on its own. The south park episode is about another world that is filled with all the good and bad thing that anyone anywhere is imagined. People find a way in and they start to try and draw conclusions over what is real and what is imaginary, talking about how you can qualify if something is real or not, just like Sophie. The government decides they have to nuke our imagination because terrorists are taking it over and since its not real, they don't need permission from congress. I feel like this would be like Albert ending the book. Like he is ending the creation but it lives on no matter what since someone imagined it. By the end of the south park they accidentily nuke the imaginationland but someone (butters) imagines everything all back since it never disappeared, like sophie moving into the spirit world.
Monday, November 28, 2011
reflection 7
What i thought about the ending
Well the ending to Sophie's world kind of split me. I liked it because it was unique, there was a twist, and it was original. I didn't like it because it made the entire book pointless and none of it happened. It was like there was no story and the book was written so that the author could write a philosophy text book without it being a textbook. You have to admire the author though for trying to write an informational book while trying to make it interesting with our generation of digital zombies, but a well crafted ending goes a long way. The ending kind of made me angry like wow the characters don't exist and this is not possible. Even with the philosophy its hard to believe in a spirit world where all the fictional novel characters go to live. Its like Imaginationland (read connection). Anyways the ending was good and bad, it left a bad taste in your mouth but was good while you ate it, if that makes any sense
Thursday, November 10, 2011
6 looks like b, b is for band which CONNECTS THINGS
Romanticism, strong ties to folklore, traditional language, nature, and customs. The movie Gangs of New York reminds of some of these things with its strong social differences and nativism. the irish in the movie were more or less the romantics. though nature was never a big thing, they stuck together based on language, customs, and tradition. The irish fought the "native" americans whose customs were, we were born in America, hate everybody who wasn't. Not very romantic. A "natury" love like romanticism can be seen in AVATAR. Though it is a repoff and special effects remake of another bad movie, dances with wolves (goodfellas was better), it is a VERY romantic movie. Screw industry, screw development, and no expansion and hostile takeover. The movie's soul is about nature's soul. Its basically propaganda about how nature is more important than anything else because it provides for us so we should provide back. The movie also has ties to traditional customs with the Na'vi (native americans) trying to keep their land and customs while the white man tries to steel the UNOBTAINium. Possibly the most romantic movie ever.
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Im crazy yay. The definition of romantic irony is staring me in the face and my forehead cool with a chilling sweat. Why is aladdin in my life with his Jeenie buddy telling me that its a new paragraph. My childhood winnie the pooh came to say hello and deliver a package. I can't be in a book because i have physical realities, or do i. i am not controlling anything that is happening to me, everything seems to be planned out and created for me. Maybe this is god watching over me, or a vivid dream that only seems like days because its a dream. When i wake up, i will have forgotten the first "months" of the dream and hopefully ill see a philosophy book on my chest which explains the dream. but no, im in a book. Damn. Please don't stop writing, i can't do anything to reach you and i can't really accept the fact that im being written into existence. This philosophy is controlling my life and every new philosopher and his views changes my life. Im not just in a book, im in a damn informational novel that tells facts, this sucks. Why do i read the letters about philosophers in clear detail and why im a so interested in these biographies of old thinking geezerz. BECAUSE IM IN A PBS SPECIAL BOOK NOOOO. hopefully you'll end the book with a "and sophie went on living happily with friends and family for another 100 years". that would be great
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