Who is this guy?!

Man of mystry? Existential thinker? or Big jerk? What category does he fall under? Meursault is rather depressing and doesn't hold very much emotion. His mom passes away and at the end of the day all he could say "It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over, that maman was buried now, that i was going back to work, and that, really nothing had changed" Now i no for a fact any emotional person or person with any type of heart would show some emotion and shed at least one tear. Meursault shows no emotion for anyone, his girlfriend asked him if he loved her and he simply said it didn't mean anything and that he probably didn't. 

Meursault spends a lot of time noticing other people's emotions instead of his own. He goes into great detail about his neighbor and his dog. He describes there whole routine and how even though his neighbor is really close to the dog he describes how he curses his dog out and at night he can hear the dog whimper. Kirosa brought up a great point of how she thought the dog whimpering was a metaphor in compression to  Meursault trying to be emotional. 

I think if we knew about Meursault's childhood his blandness and boring life would be more understandable and all his awkward actions wouldn't be so confusing. Such as why he said "When i was a student, i had lots of ambitions like that. But when i had to give up my studies i learned very quickly that none of it really mattered". Maybe if more back round information was given questions like that wouldn't be unanswered.  

The tone of this book is very boring. After reading a couple of pages i start to feel as if I'm in the same shoes as Meursault, which i very boring and unemotional. I like books that have a sense of feeling and keep me interested this book just makes me want to shoot the author because he mad such a character that cares about absolutely nothing! I'm interested to see how the books end because maybe his interactions with Raymond will give him some type of feeling which will lead to him building emotions. 

Is life really meaningless?

My life? Hmm my life is complictaed, I am a teenager trying to fit in yet be unique. If what  Bernard said is true “Everything is the same, even if it’s different.” then are my long mornings of trying to find the right outfit useless? Is all the time i spend shopping just meaning less? Even though i don't want to... i have to agree with Bernard's statement. I spend so much time trying to be different when in the end there is one more person in the world who dresses just like me and acts just like i do so in the end my act of trying to be unique in my style and actions is meaningless. 

Day after day i sit in classrooms in order to learn pointless things... such as how do shapes effect a building, how does the mood of the book change the characters emotions? Honestly some of the things taught in school are just pointless and i will not use most of it in my future. But if those things don't matter to me how do i no what i say to my friends don't matter to them. I sometimes go off for walks to look up at the sky and think about life. I think about all the conversations i had that day and analyze them. I try to figure out what made me have that conversation and in the end i come to the conclusion that none of them mattered and i only had them to get my energy out and talk.  

Day after day Albert sat on a rock protesting why they should leave the marsh as it was. He made poems tried getting existentialism detectives to help him find his meaning in life and nothing really seemed to change the mind of the cooperation. Albert sitting on the rock was one of the most pointless/ meaningless things because it didn't help him accomplish anything he just got degraded. In the end Albert helped dawn find her true self and helped her realize she didn't need to follow the picture perfect scene to love herself. 

After watching I love Huckabee's i came to the conclusion that my life is not meaningless just some of the things i do and participate in are meaningless and don't effect me in the long run. 

 

HW 3 comments on richard's post

I like how you gave your opinion about mulitple topics and not just one. Your thoughts were very insightful and i agreed with them. You should try and open you ideas by using some quotes to back up you ideas... weather you agree or disagree with the quote it will make your argument a lot stronger. 

Your thoughts about the ethic's of freedom brought up everything we discussed in class and showed how you payed attention and you backed up your opinion nicely. 

Your statement "But if we are fully free then our society wouldn't have any type of consequence." Really made me think how no matter how hard we try we are held back by society and there rules... which can't be bended or broken in anyway. 

You should once again reread over your work for punctuation and spelling mistakes, but overall i think this post was better then your last. Keep up the good work i can't wait to read your next post.

HW 3 comments on jacara's blog

I really liked how you started your post. Your really grabbed my attention and you didn't just make a statement without backing it up. Your sense of humor and affection when talking about how the question " are we free" really bothers you... it made me laugh out loud.

I disagree with your statement "I don't think there is such thing as complete happiness" because someone can be comeptley happy when there really withdrawn into something they love... such as spending time with someone they love, playing there favorite sport or just laughing really hard till they cry. There is always something that makes someone completly happy in my opinion. 

We haven't really discussed the opposite point of view in class. Like how can some one achieve total happiness by relying on someone or external things. Your blog brings up many points to discuss during class.

I really enjoyed reading this blog it brought me in a lot more then your past one. Keep up the good work.

post # 3

Banach's lecture was over whelming but very powerful. He opened up my mind to many things such as are we really free or are we controlled by everyone or everything we do. How we can be the only ones to find happiness and we are basically alone in this world. I agree with some of his ideas but disagree with others.

I think that as people/ humans we are never free. There is always one person who will be higher then us telling us what to do. As kids we have our parents telling us what to do at home and during the day we have teachers who tend to get us in trouble if we don't act a certain way. When we grow up we will always have a boss who will tell us what to do. If we don't have a boss we will have our conscious which will control us into doing the right thing most of the time. If we don't then the law/ police are after us and we are controlled even more. In my opinion i don't think we are ever truly free, we are always constricted by some rule or law that keeps us from being free and doing what we truly  want to do. 

A big topic during Banach's lecture was happiness. "The existentialist's secret of happiness, then, is to get ones value from within oneself" This means that the only way you are going to be truly happy is if you get it from your own self, such as your own heart, soul, thoughts..etc. I agree with this quote because who else knows you like more then yourself? No one which means if you make yourself happy and not worry about people judging you and classifying you, you will find true happiness in yourself. 

If we rely on other's to make us happy all the time we will suffer. " The Existentialist enjoins us to be ourselves and make the source of our nature and values our own internal decisions.." Why base our happiness of external things, when there are internal things that make us a lot more happy. We should be based off authenticity not how we fit in with a certain group of people!