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.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Simile

"A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do" (page 47). O' Brien uses this simile to describe when he is driving away from his home. He is leaving to try to escape the war and the draft. He does not agree with the war; thus, he does not want to be a part of it or support it. He tries to leave and drive to Canada. However, he knows that he is doing something that has no way of ending well. He is trapped in a "maze" that he can not escape from. Eventually, he will have to face reality and accept the path before him. A "dead-end maze" only ends one way, and that end is inevitable.
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