As can be seen from the quote that Ben provides, the notion of good in the book is the ability to love. The language in the quote excites the reader and it gives an impression of eagerness and a fast paced scene for the characters. It actually reminds me of picking my boyfriend up from returning from deployment - anxious, excited, and blurred in memory all at once. I think the quote is really hits home on the happy ending because even the dog is excited that Mr. Murray is home.
This also relates to the position I am taking for my final paper - the idea of the meaning of life - and that is being able to spend the most amount of time as possible with the few that we love. And that love in this world is what makes the human race possible.
A second reading from the book that relates to the authors notion of evil would be on page 150 when Meg and the other characters go to the building where IT is. “…at the end of the street was a strange, domelike building. Its walls glowed with a flicker of violet flame. Its silvery roof pulsed with ominous light. The light was neither warm nor cold….Meg could feel a rhythmical pulsing. It was pulsing not only about her, but in her as well, as though the rhythm of her heart and lungs was no longer her but was being worked by some outside force.” This shows that society or conformity is the evil in this book. By conforming and doing as one is told – evil encompasses the world, and no one is unique anymore. This also goes with the theme of US/Them/It. Us are the people we love and care for. Them are the other people that we don’t really know but still know that they are human. And It is conformity and societal norms which seek to confine people.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Good vs. Evil
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I totally agree with you here when you say that love is what makes the human race possible. I think that its hard for some people to find the ability to love others when they havent had love in their lives. I also like the point you bring up about seeing your boyfriend at the airport. There are so many different emotions that are going around at times like those and its important that you let them all sink in and let yourself feel them too. I also agree with the quote you chose and how you backed it up. Alot of people conform to what society believes to be right, even if what that is is evil. People get so wrapped up in what everyone else thinks is right that they dont do the good thing, the thing they know that in the end will last and amount to great deals of happiness.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the part of conforming and doing as one is told. I would say that people are still unique but I would agree that the world we currently live in is not as unique as it used to be. Conforming to expected and accepted behavior is a reoccurring theme that is becoming more and more popular.
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