Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
"So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the faces of life. The comfortable people only want wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality." (Pg. 83)
This passage is significant to me because it makes me sad to think that anyone could be so ignorant as to fear or hate books. However, it shows the truth about many people. For example, like the fact that some people don't want to go too deep into truth. They will only scratch the surface and think they have found meaning. These are the people that fear books. They fear and hate books because they fear and hate knowledge and meaning. These ignorant people know that there is real knowledge out there, but they choose to ignore it. Instead, they try to find meaning in cheap and fast entertainment, knowing deep in their hearts that what they see and hear is not true. It makes me angry to look at those people, to see them ignore the treasure that books hold. However, I also pity them for their ignorance. They know that there is knowledge in books, but they think their kind of knowledge, the fast and cheap entertainment, can equal it.
They fear and hate reality. Books to them are cannons loaded with gun powder. The fuse that will make their "knowledge" and "reality" crumble into dust is when somebody opens their eyes and says, "We've been blind. This isn't true. We know nothing about meaning or reality." To prevent this from happening, they purposely blind themselves from truth. It's very sad to see people such as these. They think that ignoring books altogether will make everyone happy, by making everyone on earth have the same opinion. It doesn't work that way, though. Knowledge and reality cannot be stopped. Even though it is ignored, its presence can always be felt. This presence is what, I think, causes the fear and hate of books. The presence that their fake knowledge will be destroyed is what causes their ignorant fear and hate.
"So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the faces of life. The comfortable people only want wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality." (Pg. 83)
This passage is significant to me because it makes me sad to think that anyone could be so ignorant as to fear or hate books. However, it shows the truth about many people. For example, like the fact that some people don't want to go too deep into truth. They will only scratch the surface and think they have found meaning. These are the people that fear books. They fear and hate books because they fear and hate knowledge and meaning. These ignorant people know that there is real knowledge out there, but they choose to ignore it. Instead, they try to find meaning in cheap and fast entertainment, knowing deep in their hearts that what they see and hear is not true. It makes me angry to look at those people, to see them ignore the treasure that books hold. However, I also pity them for their ignorance. They know that there is knowledge in books, but they think their kind of knowledge, the fast and cheap entertainment, can equal it.
They fear and hate reality. Books to them are cannons loaded with gun powder. The fuse that will make their "knowledge" and "reality" crumble into dust is when somebody opens their eyes and says, "We've been blind. This isn't true. We know nothing about meaning or reality." To prevent this from happening, they purposely blind themselves from truth. It's very sad to see people such as these. They think that ignoring books altogether will make everyone happy, by making everyone on earth have the same opinion. It doesn't work that way, though. Knowledge and reality cannot be stopped. Even though it is ignored, its presence can always be felt. This presence is what, I think, causes the fear and hate of books. The presence that their fake knowledge will be destroyed is what causes their ignorant fear and hate.
1 comment:
I just love the way Ray writes. Don't you think this quote is totally poetic? Mrs.Mc.
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