So you may be wondering why my blog is titled this...well there isn't one specific reason why. First, I think it's a great quote from the movie Forrest Gump. Also, I like the message it teaches. Life is unexpected, and no one knows what lies before them. We have to take the chance and go see for ourselves if we ever want to accomplish something. This is also a lot like reading. We start out reading a book not knowing where it will take us. The ending is unknown until we reach it; sometimes it ends good and sometimes it ends bad. However, we will never know how it turns out in the end if we do not keep going.

Friday, June 11, 2010

???

So...I ran into a bit of confusion in the chapter "Style" which starts on page 135. The chapter talks about the girl that the soldiers found in a town that had been burned down. The girl looked to be about fourteen, and we learn that her family died when her house burned down. Yet...the girl was dancing? It seems to me like if her whole village had just been destroyed, her house burnt down, and her family killed, then she might be more...concerned? worried? scared? Why was she dancing? I could not think of an answer for this. Henry Dobbins suggests that "The girl just liked to dance" (page 136). I thought maybe it was some sort of ritual or cultural tradition, but maybe she just like to dance? Or, maybe she was just dancing because she could not really comprehend what had just happened? Was she dancing as a way to not focus on the loss of her family, but instead she wanted to just dance and try to ignore it all? Or, maybe it's some kind of symbolism? ...Any ideas or solutions?
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