AN UPDATE ABOUT REVEALER ESSAY;;
it is not about my mother [obviously]
Living Prophet; Mitch Albom
Basing off "Tuesdays with Morrie"
----Morrie, a mentor prophet teaches developing prophet, Mitch, who spreds the word about valuing life.
----Quotes from Mitch & Morrie
----Youtube Vids of Mitch Albom
----Currently reading "for one more day"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Revelation Story - [NEW/DIFFERENT OUTLINE OF ]
The story still continues with Christina Gomez, Erin Peterson & 'Jude Delilan'
SUMMARY
The story is about a teenager named Christy Gomez, short for Christina who goes to Sierra Vista High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school is of two thousand students. Starting her Junior year, and is well known with the people she hangs out with, two of which she is very close to. Her bestfriend Erin Peterson, and her boyfriend Jude Delian.
Christina Gomez is pretty popular. A Varsity Softball player, gets b's a few c's, has many friends. When it comes to Friday and Saturday nights, she attends parties, mostly house parties where she drinks more than what she can handle and ends up sleeping over Erin's house to save her self from getting introuble with her parents. It was untill one day she drank a little too much and had unprotected sex with her boyfriend, Jude, who was also drunk, in some guy's room. She finds out she's pregnant with Jude's baby who later breaks up with her for the fact that he was not ready to be a father. Christina sadened by the break up, she learns to be independent and values things she had never valued before [text from tuesday's w/ morrie involved]. She loses her rep as the 'popular' girl as other guys and girls tease her. Erin, her bestfriend, tries to be there for her, but Chrinstina's pregnancy effects their friendship drastically. After almost 7th months pregnant and nobody to rely to but her teachers and parents, she was on her way home from school until a group of kds from her school baccked up into her car so hard that the air bag instanstly killed her baby. She was rushed to the hospital where Christina stayed for the night to take out the dead baby.
Jude brings flowers to the hospital and apologizes. Promises to be there for her, but Chrisitna turns down his help.
[affecting christina's grades dramatically]
Christina is depressed for many days and had stayed home weeks after the miscarriage. Though she tries to recover by her self and with her mom there for her that she can heal slowly.
Erin, along w/ Jude, had noticed the patterns of Christina's abstences so she decided to visit Christina. Erin tries to help christina, also gaining forgiveness.
Towards her senior year, Christina learns to value life and that life is too short to screw it over [with her previous habits].
Revelation: Valuing life after miscarraige.
SUMMARY
The story is about a teenager named Christy Gomez, short for Christina who goes to Sierra Vista High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school is of two thousand students. Starting her Junior year, and is well known with the people she hangs out with, two of which she is very close to. Her bestfriend Erin Peterson, and her boyfriend Jude Delian.
Christina Gomez is pretty popular. A Varsity Softball player, gets b's a few c's, has many friends. When it comes to Friday and Saturday nights, she attends parties, mostly house parties where she drinks more than what she can handle and ends up sleeping over Erin's house to save her self from getting introuble with her parents. It was untill one day she drank a little too much and had unprotected sex with her boyfriend, Jude, who was also drunk, in some guy's room. She finds out she's pregnant with Jude's baby who later breaks up with her for the fact that he was not ready to be a father. Christina sadened by the break up, she learns to be independent and values things she had never valued before [text from tuesday's w/ morrie involved]. She loses her rep as the 'popular' girl as other guys and girls tease her. Erin, her bestfriend, tries to be there for her, but Chrinstina's pregnancy effects their friendship drastically. After almost 7th months pregnant and nobody to rely to but her teachers and parents, she was on her way home from school until a group of kds from her school baccked up into her car so hard that the air bag instanstly killed her baby. She was rushed to the hospital where Christina stayed for the night to take out the dead baby.
Jude brings flowers to the hospital and apologizes. Promises to be there for her, but Chrisitna turns down his help.
[affecting christina's grades dramatically]
Christina is depressed for many days and had stayed home weeks after the miscarriage. Though she tries to recover by her self and with her mom there for her that she can heal slowly.
Erin, along w/ Jude, had noticed the patterns of Christina's abstences so she decided to visit Christina. Erin tries to help christina, also gaining forgiveness.
Towards her senior year, Christina learns to value life and that life is too short to screw it over [with her previous habits].
Revelation: Valuing life after miscarraige.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Real Live Prophet Essay - draft
Most teenagers in society have experienced situations a typical teenager would often experience. If a mistake is made, it is seldom that a teenager learns from their mistake. Usually, one relies on a friend to cope with their situation, while others repeat the same habit over again till they have learned their lesson. Whether it is about relationships, addictions of drugs or alcohol, getting abused or abusing others, stress, a problem with one’s personality, etc., sooner or later one is confronted about his/her situation by a particular person. This particular person could be his/her friend, teacher, mentor, parent, maybe a stranger who wants to help this teenager from their time of struggle. However, getting help is not always easy. Teenagers’ may seek for some sort of guidance, a revelation of what one can do to improve their life. Based on my middle school and most of my high school years, I have experienced plenty of issues from friends, and a few with relationships where I repeatedly made the same mistakes. I have always looked for help and I possibly had a handful of advice from people who told me what to do with the situation, though I always resisted their ‘revelation’. I tried to find my own revelation by fixing the situation alone, but who would ever thought that my own mother, who does not know what most of my situations, would be the one to help me out about it.
Most teenagers have some sort of boundary with their mother or father whom they cannot tell the truth to them because at times, ‘parents just don’t understand’. When a teenager are in trouble and is confronted by a parent or guardian, he/she tries to go around the situation by making up excuses, denying the fact that something is wrong with him/her. With my mom, I have always tried to push her out of my business. When I was in eighth grade, I had trouble with a friend and would cry about how bad it went. My mom would try to figure out what was wrong with me, though I would always push her out of my business saying there was nothing wrong. Like other friends of mine, she would try to tell me what to do, but I never listened. I always thought that she never went through a situation like mine, who is she to know what I was going through? It was until one day everything went downhill for me. My friend had stopped talking to me for an unknown reason. I came home, crying, and at four o’clock in the after noon I went straight to sleep and woke up the next morning. It was pretty dramatic to me because this had never happened before. My mom woke me up and had asked me once more what was wrong. Again, I denied anything was wrong, assuming she would go away, but she didn’t. She sat next to my bed and told me that it is okay to cry over friends, but if they keep hurting you then you know that he/she is not a true friend. In my mind I am thinking that I already knew that, but she continued talking, explaining how friends will come and go and will not always be around when you want them to be. I found that hard to believe at the time, since I was only an eighth grader. My mom basically told me to be independent when it involved with an issue with any of my friends and to learn from that. My friends were not always going to be there for any kind of situation and if they were my real friend they would have confronted me about the situation if not vice-versa.
Most teenagers have some sort of boundary with their mother or father whom they cannot tell the truth to them because at times, ‘parents just don’t understand’. When a teenager are in trouble and is confronted by a parent or guardian, he/she tries to go around the situation by making up excuses, denying the fact that something is wrong with him/her. With my mom, I have always tried to push her out of my business. When I was in eighth grade, I had trouble with a friend and would cry about how bad it went. My mom would try to figure out what was wrong with me, though I would always push her out of my business saying there was nothing wrong. Like other friends of mine, she would try to tell me what to do, but I never listened. I always thought that she never went through a situation like mine, who is she to know what I was going through? It was until one day everything went downhill for me. My friend had stopped talking to me for an unknown reason. I came home, crying, and at four o’clock in the after noon I went straight to sleep and woke up the next morning. It was pretty dramatic to me because this had never happened before. My mom woke me up and had asked me once more what was wrong. Again, I denied anything was wrong, assuming she would go away, but she didn’t. She sat next to my bed and told me that it is okay to cry over friends, but if they keep hurting you then you know that he/she is not a true friend. In my mind I am thinking that I already knew that, but she continued talking, explaining how friends will come and go and will not always be around when you want them to be. I found that hard to believe at the time, since I was only an eighth grader. My mom basically told me to be independent when it involved with an issue with any of my friends and to learn from that. My friends were not always going to be there for any kind of situation and if they were my real friend they would have confronted me about the situation if not vice-versa.
Revelation Story - 1st draft
Outline/Summary
The story is about a teenager named Christy Gomez, short for Christina who goes to Sierra Vista High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school is of five thousand plus students, about fifteen hundred in each grade, where most of the students do not no each other. She is a junior, and has a few friends, two she was close with named Erin Peterson and Moe Abraham [who is the narrator], two girls who she had known since sixth grade.
Unfortunetly, not everyone in Sierra Vista likes Christy for her actions taken at school. She was known for vanadlizing school property, spray painting the lockers, verbally abusing other students, snickering about how uptight everyone were. Christy had her reasons, others for punishment she was expelled. Miraculously she came back to the school, proving that she had changed, though student still did not accept her for who she previously was.
The story is about a teenager named Christy Gomez, short for Christina who goes to Sierra Vista High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school is of five thousand plus students, about fifteen hundred in each grade, where most of the students do not no each other. She is a junior, and has a few friends, two she was close with named Erin Peterson and Moe Abraham [who is the narrator], two girls who she had known since sixth grade.
Unfortunetly, not everyone in Sierra Vista likes Christy for her actions taken at school. She was known for vanadlizing school property, spray painting the lockers, verbally abusing other students, snickering about how uptight everyone were. Christy had her reasons, others for punishment she was expelled. Miraculously she came back to the school, proving that she had changed, though student still did not accept her for who she previously was.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Snow Ball Paper - re-written intro + body 1
[Introduction]
A Revelation is described as a disclosure of which it reveals something that was previously unaware of. It is the different ways one is exposed to the truth in which it reveals a new insight of the person, changing the perspective of what one may think compared to what he/she had previously thought. A revelation is not always revealed at an instant, though it can also be a process in which it takes a duration of time. A revelation can take a day or a year to discover that was not recognized before. A trope is a familiar person, place or thing that one may see as repeated, similar to a cliché. An example of a revelation trope would be a realization of one’s sexual orientation after experiencing some form of affection towards the same sex. It is a trope because it is common for a person to recognize his/her own sexual orientation whether one is straight, gay/Lesbian or Bi. Revelation tropes are introduced by a revealer, whom he/she tries to uncover the truth about an unacceptable situation, seen in their own perception. It delivers a message in which a majority of people might not accept because it reveals a fact that most people do not want to hear for it might not have a kind of benefit for ones self. A person can recognize a revelation, given in different stories, by trying to figure out what the message the story may be.
>>>>By deconstructing the story, or statement, one can understand the real message behind what might be a falst statement.
[Fox Fire]
Most people have discovered revelations by undergoing an experience that made them realize what may be best for his/her own benefit. In the movie Fox Fire, Angelina Joli played a character named Legs, a revealer in most situations, where she influenced a group of high school girls to revolt against their teacher. The issue that was introduced in the movie was about a high school girl who was sexually abused by her teacher during school detention hours. The revelation trope found in Foxfire was when the selected girls resisted against the truth about their teacher. A few girls turned against the scheme of hurting the teacher while others did not want to believe the sexual harrasment was the truth. Legs took the initiative to try to motivate the girls to fight back the teacher to demand self respect. The girls eventually fought against the teacher which gained them their respect. The Message that was taken place was to fight the superior in order to save the girl from being harassed again.
A Revelation is described as a disclosure of which it reveals something that was previously unaware of. It is the different ways one is exposed to the truth in which it reveals a new insight of the person, changing the perspective of what one may think compared to what he/she had previously thought. A revelation is not always revealed at an instant, though it can also be a process in which it takes a duration of time. A revelation can take a day or a year to discover that was not recognized before. A trope is a familiar person, place or thing that one may see as repeated, similar to a cliché. An example of a revelation trope would be a realization of one’s sexual orientation after experiencing some form of affection towards the same sex. It is a trope because it is common for a person to recognize his/her own sexual orientation whether one is straight, gay/Lesbian or Bi. Revelation tropes are introduced by a revealer, whom he/she tries to uncover the truth about an unacceptable situation, seen in their own perception. It delivers a message in which a majority of people might not accept because it reveals a fact that most people do not want to hear for it might not have a kind of benefit for ones self. A person can recognize a revelation, given in different stories, by trying to figure out what the message the story may be.
>>>>By deconstructing the story, or statement, one can understand the real message behind what might be a falst statement.
[Fox Fire]
Most people have discovered revelations by undergoing an experience that made them realize what may be best for his/her own benefit. In the movie Fox Fire, Angelina Joli played a character named Legs, a revealer in most situations, where she influenced a group of high school girls to revolt against their teacher. The issue that was introduced in the movie was about a high school girl who was sexually abused by her teacher during school detention hours. The revelation trope found in Foxfire was when the selected girls resisted against the truth about their teacher. A few girls turned against the scheme of hurting the teacher while others did not want to believe the sexual harrasment was the truth. Legs took the initiative to try to motivate the girls to fight back the teacher to demand self respect. The girls eventually fought against the teacher which gained them their respect. The Message that was taken place was to fight the superior in order to save the girl from being harassed again.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Snow Ball Paper - 2nd draft [still touching it up]
[Introduction]
Revelation is described as a disclosure of which it reveals something that was previously unaware of. A revelation is the different ways one is exposed to the truth in which it reveals a new insight of the person, changing the perspective of what one may think compared to what he/she had previously believed. It is not always at an instant where a revelation is found, though it can also be a process in which it takes a duration of time, whether it takes a day or a year to realize something that was not discovered before. A trope is a familiar thing one may see as repeated, similar to a cliché. An example of a revelation trope would be a realization of one’s sexual orientation after experiencing some form of affection towards the same sex. It is a trope because it is common for a person to recognize his/her own sexual orientation whether one is straight, gay/Lesbian or Bi. Revelation tropes are introduced by a revealer in whom he/she tries to uncover the truth about an unacceptable situation. It delivers a message in which a majority of people might not accept because it reveals a fact that most people do not want to hear for it might not have a kind of benefit for ones self.
[Fox Fire]
Most people have discovered revelations by undergoing an experience that has made them realize what may be best for his/her own benefit. In the movie Fox Fire, Angelina Joli played a character named Legs, a revealer in most situations, where she influenced a group of high school girls to revolt against their teacher. The issue was about a high school girl who was sexually abused by her teacher during school detention hours. A revelation trope is found in Fox Fire when a few girls turned against the scheme of hurting the teacher. Others tried to resist by not believing the sexual harrasment was the truth. Legs took the initiative to try to motivate the girls to fight back the teacher to demand self respect. The girls eventually fought against the teacher which gained them their respect. The Message that was taken place was to fight the superior in order to save the girl from being harassed again.
[Matrix]
Similar to the movie The Matrix, Morpheus, known as a computer hacker, introduces Thomas Anderson to the real world and how the world he was living in was “a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity [has] been captured by a race of machines which live off of their body heat and imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix” (http://www.imdb.com/). Morpheus reveals to Thomas Anderson, known as Neo in the real world, in order for him to understand that he is ‘the one’ to save the people of Zion, the last human city on earth, from the machines that make up the Matrix. In relation to Fox Fire, Morpheus and Legs have similar characteristics in which they influence those who are less experienced to fight against their superior, or in Neo’s case his nemesis, to prevent such situations from happening again. Both situations include the Revealer/Prophet, who is physically distinct to those they are trying to share the message with, which changes the reality of ones perspective by involving them into troubled situations.
[^^^include quotes from the movie]
[Star Wars]
In Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, a young man named Luke Skywalker seeks Jedi Master Yoda to continue the teachings of Obi-Wan Kenobi who had previously died in Star Wars: Episode IV. Yoda instructed Luke the ways of the force in order to defeat Darth Vader. Luke tried to find the Revelation of his life within Yoda’s teachings, however, a startling revelation was discovered when Luke and Darth Vader were in a battle against one another which Darth Vader reveals to Luke that he is his father. The Revelation Trope was the whole concept of Good vs. Evil in which no one knows until the end of the movie who would really win. In Star Wars, Luke is looking up to a God-like figure such like Obi-Wan Kenobi who tries to teach him the way of the Force, but because of his death, he was unable to succeed in his prophecies of being a real Jedi Master. Yoda took his position which continued the teachings, also looked upon as a God-like figure in which the developing prophet is learning from the mentor prophet of what the real life message is. In relation to the Matrix, Morpheus is somewhat of a God-like prophet where he teaches Neo the ways of the Matrix and how to go against it. Neo learns from Morpheus and by the third movie becomes into this Jesus figure where he already learned the facts of the trade of life, to sacrifice himself to save the people of Zion from the machines that control the people’s lives. Similar to Star Wars, both Movies have a God-like Prophet who share a message with the less experienced Developing prophets.
[^^^include quotes from the movie]
[An Enemy of the People]
Written in the late 1800s, the short play book, An Enemy of the People, by author Henrik Ibsen, tells a fictional story about a town taken place in Scandinavia. In the story, the town is dependent on a large bath that is provided for the towns’ people. Unfortunately, an issue is introduced by Dr. Stockmann, a medical doctor who is also the medical officer of the town's bath. He discovers that the bath's water supply is contaminated and tries to alert the people of the town. He first informs Hovstad, editor of the town's newspaper 'People's Herald', and Aslaksen, the newspaper's printer. He gains their support, however the mayor of the town, who is also the brother of Dr. Stockmann, does not entirely agree with his discovery. The mayor is concerned about the Dr.’s proposal of publishing the contamination of the bath in the town’s newspaper for it would cost plenty of money which includes taxing the people of the town to repair the damage.
In the long term one can agree that the mayor does not want the people to follow Dr. Stockmann’s requirements to fix the bath and because the mayor disagrees with his brother is all because of jealousy. In reaction to Dr. Stockmann’s discovery, the mayor persuades Hovstad and Aslaksen, who were in the process of printing the Dr.’s proposal in the newspaper, to go against him and his word in which they both influence the people of the town to go against him as well. In defense to try to save Dr. Stockmann’s perspective of the contaminated bath, the people of the town looked at him as the enemy of the people. Though, in the end Dr. Stockmann had the option to move out of town, instead he decided to stay and fight against those who do not understand his perspective, the truth, of the contaminated baths’. In An Enemy of the People the revelation is portrayed when Dr. Stockmann made the discovery that the water in the baths’ are contaminated. Because of this revelation, it led Dr. Stockmann to reveal the truth of the contamination to the people of the town.
[Feed]
In comparison to the book Feed by M.T. Anderson, the main character named Titus narrates the story of him and his relationship with a young girl named Violet. They both live in the future, a world where everything is ran under the feed, a small chip planted in a person’s head. Titus explains how the feed is “the only way to get all this stuff, and it’s no good getting pissy about it, because they’re still going to control everything whether you like it or not” (Anderson 48). Although the feed may be beneficial to those who use it, Violet thinks otherwise. Violet who was known to be Titus’s girlfriend has the feed, though it was planted in her head at the age of seven which makes it difficult for her to use it correctly. Violet can still use the feed, however if the feed malfunctions then she is at a great risk of dying. Because of Violet’s condition, she is able to think against the Feed whenever she pleases. Nevertheless she still has an even greater risk of damaging her Feed by resisting it, causing herself to weaken. Due to her condition and resistance against the feed, it makes her different from everyone else which cause people to look down upon her, making her feel left out. The purpose of the Feed is to advertise the mind by feeding the person with different messages which influence people to do what is being fed. This puts Violet aside from those who follow the Feed because she believes that:
“No one with feeds thinks about it […] When you have the feed all your life, you’re brought up to not think about things. Like them never telling you that it’s a republic and not a democracy. It’s something that makes [her] angry, what people don’t know about these days. Because of the feed, we’re raising a nation of idiots. Ignorant, self-centered idiots” (Page 113).
Because of her condition, Violet is allowed to wander in her own mind and freely think about anything, resisting the feed to do exactly what she wants, not what the feed tells her to do. Violet exposes Titus about resisting the Feed, revealing how the Feed is taking over people’s minds in a bad way. Instead of Titus resisting the Feed, he resisted Violet and her revelation about the Feed. Violet’s revelation was not fully understood until Violet passed away due to the malfunction of her Feed.
In connection to An Enemy of the People it took Dr. Stockmann, a man who became an outcast after revealing to the town about the outbreaks in the baths. Because of the truth that was revealed, nobody in town believed him, as well with Violet who was also viewed as an outcast in which she tried to expose the Truth about the Feed to Titus. Both Stories have their similarities because the Revealers are not always noticed which make it difficult for many, including the reader, to understand the message.
Revelation is described as a disclosure of which it reveals something that was previously unaware of. A revelation is the different ways one is exposed to the truth in which it reveals a new insight of the person, changing the perspective of what one may think compared to what he/she had previously believed. It is not always at an instant where a revelation is found, though it can also be a process in which it takes a duration of time, whether it takes a day or a year to realize something that was not discovered before. A trope is a familiar thing one may see as repeated, similar to a cliché. An example of a revelation trope would be a realization of one’s sexual orientation after experiencing some form of affection towards the same sex. It is a trope because it is common for a person to recognize his/her own sexual orientation whether one is straight, gay/Lesbian or Bi. Revelation tropes are introduced by a revealer in whom he/she tries to uncover the truth about an unacceptable situation. It delivers a message in which a majority of people might not accept because it reveals a fact that most people do not want to hear for it might not have a kind of benefit for ones self.
[Fox Fire]
Most people have discovered revelations by undergoing an experience that has made them realize what may be best for his/her own benefit. In the movie Fox Fire, Angelina Joli played a character named Legs, a revealer in most situations, where she influenced a group of high school girls to revolt against their teacher. The issue was about a high school girl who was sexually abused by her teacher during school detention hours. A revelation trope is found in Fox Fire when a few girls turned against the scheme of hurting the teacher. Others tried to resist by not believing the sexual harrasment was the truth. Legs took the initiative to try to motivate the girls to fight back the teacher to demand self respect. The girls eventually fought against the teacher which gained them their respect. The Message that was taken place was to fight the superior in order to save the girl from being harassed again.
[Matrix]
Similar to the movie The Matrix, Morpheus, known as a computer hacker, introduces Thomas Anderson to the real world and how the world he was living in was “a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity [has] been captured by a race of machines which live off of their body heat and imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix” (http://www.imdb.com/). Morpheus reveals to Thomas Anderson, known as Neo in the real world, in order for him to understand that he is ‘the one’ to save the people of Zion, the last human city on earth, from the machines that make up the Matrix. In relation to Fox Fire, Morpheus and Legs have similar characteristics in which they influence those who are less experienced to fight against their superior, or in Neo’s case his nemesis, to prevent such situations from happening again. Both situations include the Revealer/Prophet, who is physically distinct to those they are trying to share the message with, which changes the reality of ones perspective by involving them into troubled situations.
[^^^include quotes from the movie]
[Star Wars]
In Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, a young man named Luke Skywalker seeks Jedi Master Yoda to continue the teachings of Obi-Wan Kenobi who had previously died in Star Wars: Episode IV. Yoda instructed Luke the ways of the force in order to defeat Darth Vader. Luke tried to find the Revelation of his life within Yoda’s teachings, however, a startling revelation was discovered when Luke and Darth Vader were in a battle against one another which Darth Vader reveals to Luke that he is his father. The Revelation Trope was the whole concept of Good vs. Evil in which no one knows until the end of the movie who would really win. In Star Wars, Luke is looking up to a God-like figure such like Obi-Wan Kenobi who tries to teach him the way of the Force, but because of his death, he was unable to succeed in his prophecies of being a real Jedi Master. Yoda took his position which continued the teachings, also looked upon as a God-like figure in which the developing prophet is learning from the mentor prophet of what the real life message is. In relation to the Matrix, Morpheus is somewhat of a God-like prophet where he teaches Neo the ways of the Matrix and how to go against it. Neo learns from Morpheus and by the third movie becomes into this Jesus figure where he already learned the facts of the trade of life, to sacrifice himself to save the people of Zion from the machines that control the people’s lives. Similar to Star Wars, both Movies have a God-like Prophet who share a message with the less experienced Developing prophets.
[^^^include quotes from the movie]
[An Enemy of the People]
Written in the late 1800s, the short play book, An Enemy of the People, by author Henrik Ibsen, tells a fictional story about a town taken place in Scandinavia. In the story, the town is dependent on a large bath that is provided for the towns’ people. Unfortunately, an issue is introduced by Dr. Stockmann, a medical doctor who is also the medical officer of the town's bath. He discovers that the bath's water supply is contaminated and tries to alert the people of the town. He first informs Hovstad, editor of the town's newspaper 'People's Herald', and Aslaksen, the newspaper's printer. He gains their support, however the mayor of the town, who is also the brother of Dr. Stockmann, does not entirely agree with his discovery. The mayor is concerned about the Dr.’s proposal of publishing the contamination of the bath in the town’s newspaper for it would cost plenty of money which includes taxing the people of the town to repair the damage.
In the long term one can agree that the mayor does not want the people to follow Dr. Stockmann’s requirements to fix the bath and because the mayor disagrees with his brother is all because of jealousy. In reaction to Dr. Stockmann’s discovery, the mayor persuades Hovstad and Aslaksen, who were in the process of printing the Dr.’s proposal in the newspaper, to go against him and his word in which they both influence the people of the town to go against him as well. In defense to try to save Dr. Stockmann’s perspective of the contaminated bath, the people of the town looked at him as the enemy of the people. Though, in the end Dr. Stockmann had the option to move out of town, instead he decided to stay and fight against those who do not understand his perspective, the truth, of the contaminated baths’. In An Enemy of the People the revelation is portrayed when Dr. Stockmann made the discovery that the water in the baths’ are contaminated. Because of this revelation, it led Dr. Stockmann to reveal the truth of the contamination to the people of the town.
[Feed]
In comparison to the book Feed by M.T. Anderson, the main character named Titus narrates the story of him and his relationship with a young girl named Violet. They both live in the future, a world where everything is ran under the feed, a small chip planted in a person’s head. Titus explains how the feed is “the only way to get all this stuff, and it’s no good getting pissy about it, because they’re still going to control everything whether you like it or not” (Anderson 48). Although the feed may be beneficial to those who use it, Violet thinks otherwise. Violet who was known to be Titus’s girlfriend has the feed, though it was planted in her head at the age of seven which makes it difficult for her to use it correctly. Violet can still use the feed, however if the feed malfunctions then she is at a great risk of dying. Because of Violet’s condition, she is able to think against the Feed whenever she pleases. Nevertheless she still has an even greater risk of damaging her Feed by resisting it, causing herself to weaken. Due to her condition and resistance against the feed, it makes her different from everyone else which cause people to look down upon her, making her feel left out. The purpose of the Feed is to advertise the mind by feeding the person with different messages which influence people to do what is being fed. This puts Violet aside from those who follow the Feed because she believes that:
“No one with feeds thinks about it […] When you have the feed all your life, you’re brought up to not think about things. Like them never telling you that it’s a republic and not a democracy. It’s something that makes [her] angry, what people don’t know about these days. Because of the feed, we’re raising a nation of idiots. Ignorant, self-centered idiots” (Page 113).
Because of her condition, Violet is allowed to wander in her own mind and freely think about anything, resisting the feed to do exactly what she wants, not what the feed tells her to do. Violet exposes Titus about resisting the Feed, revealing how the Feed is taking over people’s minds in a bad way. Instead of Titus resisting the Feed, he resisted Violet and her revelation about the Feed. Violet’s revelation was not fully understood until Violet passed away due to the malfunction of her Feed.
In connection to An Enemy of the People it took Dr. Stockmann, a man who became an outcast after revealing to the town about the outbreaks in the baths. Because of the truth that was revealed, nobody in town believed him, as well with Violet who was also viewed as an outcast in which she tried to expose the Truth about the Feed to Titus. Both Stories have their similarities because the Revealers are not always noticed which make it difficult for many, including the reader, to understand the message.
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