It was not until i turn 16 that i decided to find my mother. I didn't know why i waited so long, maybe because there was a reason why we were meant to be apart. It was when i found the letter that arrived to me about a year late, that made me want to see her. it had a return address of some small town in Montana.
I ran down the streets of the city looking for somebody,anybody. i reached towards her shoulder and grasped it hard, shocking her , dropping her purse. i grabbed it with out even blinking or thinking, ran faster then ever towards an ally , where she couldn't find me. It was then that i saw the 100$ laying in her wallet , calling out to me, telling me that i have enough money now to take a train up to Montana.
I was walking down the streets of this small town not knowing where to go next. i looked up at the house numbers waiting until i reached 225. it wasnt until 30 minutes later that i reached the abandoned looking house. my feet were covered in dust,water driping down my forehead. i was nearvous, what would my mom think when she sees me, when she finds out im sick of doing too much drugs, when i tell her im homeless, that i steal? i was scared.
i rang the door bell, no answer. rang again, no answer. The next door neighbor started yelling at me to leave, theres no point of trying, that no one lived there any more. i started walking up her lown. i needed to know more, i didnt just travel a day to come to no one.
She invited me in for some tea, i accepted even though I'm not much of a tea drinker. Her name was Madison, and had buitiful strawberry blonde hair, i wondered if my mom looked like her aswell. We sat and talked for awhile until she felt confterble enough to tell me the truth, that she died. The truth hurt so bad, i didnt know how to react. i was shocked, i wanted to be upset , but it was hard, i only knew her for what, a 4th of my life? it was hard to sit there and be mortified and remember our memories together, but we didnt have any, or at least i didnt remember.
The door bell inturupted us, Madison excused herself and opened the door, standing on the other side was a boy about my age and an older man. She gave a kiss to each, and they all laughed with joy. She brought them over towards me , and introduced them " This is my son Jacob , and my husband John". This wasnt exactally what i wanted to hear at the moment , i was in a moment where i wanted my family , and not to see some other perfect one. i smiled and asked to use the bathroom , Madison pointed me in the direction upstairs.
As i was walking towards the stairs, i heard them whispering... mostly about me i guessed. the first door to my right up the stairs was their room, i could tell, the lace white window drapes, and bedding that look like it belonged to a grandma. i walked in trying to stop myself, trying to leave my past behind, but i couldnt , i stole something. it was a little white handkerchief that i could tell was old. i tend to take things that are nothing, but mean alot to that person. i dont know why, maybe because i want to get a feel about the person, see who they are.
NOTE: That was my introduction to my story , i know that i could write on forever but this is something i need alot of time to write , so instead of writing a million pages, for the rest of the story im going to outline it out in detail, what happens next, why, etc.
- Scene 1-3 = Everything above written [ 1- doorstep, neighbor calling in, 2-talk over tea, the truth, 3- introduction to family, stolen handkerchief]
-Scene 4= Goes back downstairs, the family offer to drive him to the train station so that he can make the next train. He tells them that he doesnt have enough money , that he thought he was coming here to live with his mother. They invite him to stay at the house, in the guest house until he finds a way to get money, job etc.
-Scene 5= Jacob sets up bed,etc in guest house for Chris (the boy). They end up talking about Chris's lifestyle vs. Jacobs, they realize how different they are. Jacob is easily amused by how Chris is such a "bad boy" and is jelous in a way . at the end of the night you can tell that they like eachother alot and enjoy eachothers company, become friends off the bat.
-Scene 6= Father takes Chris to the local diner to be a bus boy, make some cash for the train. He never worked in his life, always stole money, so big change for him. He starts right there on the spot. and everyone looks at him like hes some weird creature, he feels unconfortable and runs out.
-Scene 7= He runs out and starts walking and ends up on this open feild. He lays down and just stares at sky thinking. a couple hours later the father comes and finds him , telling him that he got a call from the diner saying that he left in a rush. They sit and talk , Chris doesnt know how John got his life story out of him but he does. Chris feels releaved because no one ever asked about his life, it was a good way to just pour out everything. John talks to Chris about staying for the whole summer that it might teach him lessons.
-Scene 8= At night hangs out with Jacob and all this friends, they all dont beleive he can do all this bad stuff, they walk down street and ask for him to break in to a car, he does it they are all facinated. they ask him to break in a house he says no. Jacob starts wanting the attention too , he starts to try and be bad, from being this perfect little boy.
-Scene 9= Mom gets pissed that her son [Jacobs] turning into a bad boy, she wants Chris to move out but the father disagrees and fights with mom .
-Scene 9= Chris feels bad he runs away, he doesnt want to cause all this trouble for the family, he realized the damage he did on Jacob.
-Scene 10= THe father finds him at the train station about to sneak onto the train without paying, but he tells him to come back home , that its his house now. that he needs the help of a family with him , that thats what hes missing in life.
-Scene 11= Chris comes back home and gets the job back and starts wearign all new clothes, treatign the mother wih respect, not teachign JAcob any more bad things, etc.
THE END .
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
MY STORYYYY-draft 1
It was not until i turn 16 that i decided to find my mother. I didn't know why i waited so long, maybe because there was a reason why we were meant to be apart. It was when i found the letter that arrived to me about a year late, that made me want to see her. it had a return address of some small town in Montana.
I ran down the streets of the city looking for somebody,anybody. i reached towards her shoulder and grasped it hard, shocking her , dropping her purse. i grabbed it with out even blinking or thinking, ran faster then ever towards an ally , where she couldn't find me. It was then that i saw the 100$ laying in her wallet , calling out to me, telling me that i have enough money now to take a train up to Montana.
I was walking down the streets of this small town not knowing where to go next. i looked up at the house numbers waiting until i reached 225. it wasnt until 30 minutes later that i reached the abandoned looking house. my feet were covered in dust,water driping down my forehead. i was nearvous, what would my mom think when she sees me, when she finds out im sick of doing too much drugs, when i tell her im homeless, that i steal? i was scared.
i rang the door bell, no answer. rang again, no answer. The next door neighbor started yelling at me to leave, theres no point of trying, that no one lived there any more. i started walking up her lown. i needed to know more, i didnt just travel a day to come to no one.
She invited me in for some tea, i accepted even though I'm not much of a tea drinker. Her name was Madison, and had buitiful strawberry blonde hair, i wondered if my mom looked like her aswell. We sat and talked for awhile until she felt confterble enough to tell me the truth, that she died. The truth hurt so bad, i didnt know how to react. i was shocked, i wanted to be upset , but it was hard, i only knew her for what, a 4th of my life? it was hard to sit there and be mortified and remember our memories together, but we didnt have any, or at least i didnt remember.
The door bell inturupted us, Madison excused herself and opened the door, standing on the other side was a boy about my age and an older man. She gave a kiss to each, and they all laughed with joy. She brought them over towards me , and introduced them " This is my son Jacob , and my husband John". This wasnt exactally what i wanted to hear at the moment , i was in a moment where i wanted my family , and not to see some other perfect one. i smiled and asked to use the bathroom , Madison pointed me in the direction upstairs.
As i was walking towards the stairs, i heard them whispering... mostly about me i guessed. the first door to my right up the stairs was their room, i could tell, the lace white window drapes, and bedding that look like it belonged to a grandma. i walked in trying to stop myself, trying to leave my past behind, but i couldnt , i stole something. it was a little white handkerchief that i could tell was old. i tend to take things that are nothing, but mean alot to that person. i dont know why, maybe because i want to get a feel about the person, see who they are.
NOTE: That was my introduction to my story , i know that i could write on forever but this is something i need alot of time to write , so instead of writing a million pages, for the rest of the story im going to outline it out in detail, what happens next, why, etc.
- Scene 1-3 = Everything above written [ 1- doorstep, neighbor calling in, 2-talk over tea, the truth, 3- introduction to family, stolen handkerchief]
-Scene 4= Goes back downstairs, the family offer to drive him to the train station so that he can make the next train. He tells them that he doesnt have enough money , that he thought he was coming here to live with his mother. They invite him to stay at the house, in the guest house until he finds a way to get money, job etc.
-Scene 5= Jacob sets up bed,etc in guest house for Chris (the boy). They end up talking about Chris's lifestyle vs. Jacobs, they realize how different they are. Jacob is easily amused by how Chris is such a "bad boy" and is jelous in a way . at the end of the night you can tell that they like eachother alot and enjoy eachothers company, become friends off the bat.
-Scene 6= Father takes Chris to the local diner to be a bus boy, make some cash for the train. He never worked in his life, always stole money, so big change for him. He starts right there on the spot. and everyone looks at him like hes some weird creature, he feels unconfortable and runs out.
-Scene 7= He runs out and starts walking and ends up on this open feild. He lays down and just stares at sky thinking. a couple hours later the father comes and finds him , telling him that he got a call from the diner saying that he left in a rush. They sit and talk , Chris doesnt know how John got his life story out of him but he does. Chris feels releaved because no one ever asked about his life, it was a good way to just pour out everything. John talks to Chris about staying for the whole summer that it might teach him lessons.
-Scene 8= At night hangs out with Jacob and all this friends, they all dont beleive he can do all this bad stuff, they walk down street and ask for him to break in to a car, he does it they are all facinated. they ask him to break in a house he says no. Jacob starts wanting the attention too , he starts to try and be bad, from being this perfect little boy.
I ran down the streets of the city looking for somebody,anybody. i reached towards her shoulder and grasped it hard, shocking her , dropping her purse. i grabbed it with out even blinking or thinking, ran faster then ever towards an ally , where she couldn't find me. It was then that i saw the 100$ laying in her wallet , calling out to me, telling me that i have enough money now to take a train up to Montana.
I was walking down the streets of this small town not knowing where to go next. i looked up at the house numbers waiting until i reached 225. it wasnt until 30 minutes later that i reached the abandoned looking house. my feet were covered in dust,water driping down my forehead. i was nearvous, what would my mom think when she sees me, when she finds out im sick of doing too much drugs, when i tell her im homeless, that i steal? i was scared.
i rang the door bell, no answer. rang again, no answer. The next door neighbor started yelling at me to leave, theres no point of trying, that no one lived there any more. i started walking up her lown. i needed to know more, i didnt just travel a day to come to no one.
She invited me in for some tea, i accepted even though I'm not much of a tea drinker. Her name was Madison, and had buitiful strawberry blonde hair, i wondered if my mom looked like her aswell. We sat and talked for awhile until she felt confterble enough to tell me the truth, that she died. The truth hurt so bad, i didnt know how to react. i was shocked, i wanted to be upset , but it was hard, i only knew her for what, a 4th of my life? it was hard to sit there and be mortified and remember our memories together, but we didnt have any, or at least i didnt remember.
The door bell inturupted us, Madison excused herself and opened the door, standing on the other side was a boy about my age and an older man. She gave a kiss to each, and they all laughed with joy. She brought them over towards me , and introduced them " This is my son Jacob , and my husband John". This wasnt exactally what i wanted to hear at the moment , i was in a moment where i wanted my family , and not to see some other perfect one. i smiled and asked to use the bathroom , Madison pointed me in the direction upstairs.
As i was walking towards the stairs, i heard them whispering... mostly about me i guessed. the first door to my right up the stairs was their room, i could tell, the lace white window drapes, and bedding that look like it belonged to a grandma. i walked in trying to stop myself, trying to leave my past behind, but i couldnt , i stole something. it was a little white handkerchief that i could tell was old. i tend to take things that are nothing, but mean alot to that person. i dont know why, maybe because i want to get a feel about the person, see who they are.
NOTE: That was my introduction to my story , i know that i could write on forever but this is something i need alot of time to write , so instead of writing a million pages, for the rest of the story im going to outline it out in detail, what happens next, why, etc.
- Scene 1-3 = Everything above written [ 1- doorstep, neighbor calling in, 2-talk over tea, the truth, 3- introduction to family, stolen handkerchief]
-Scene 4= Goes back downstairs, the family offer to drive him to the train station so that he can make the next train. He tells them that he doesnt have enough money , that he thought he was coming here to live with his mother. They invite him to stay at the house, in the guest house until he finds a way to get money, job etc.
-Scene 5= Jacob sets up bed,etc in guest house for Chris (the boy). They end up talking about Chris's lifestyle vs. Jacobs, they realize how different they are. Jacob is easily amused by how Chris is such a "bad boy" and is jelous in a way . at the end of the night you can tell that they like eachother alot and enjoy eachothers company, become friends off the bat.
-Scene 6= Father takes Chris to the local diner to be a bus boy, make some cash for the train. He never worked in his life, always stole money, so big change for him. He starts right there on the spot. and everyone looks at him like hes some weird creature, he feels unconfortable and runs out.
-Scene 7= He runs out and starts walking and ends up on this open feild. He lays down and just stares at sky thinking. a couple hours later the father comes and finds him , telling him that he got a call from the diner saying that he left in a rush. They sit and talk , Chris doesnt know how John got his life story out of him but he does. Chris feels releaved because no one ever asked about his life, it was a good way to just pour out everything. John talks to Chris about staying for the whole summer that it might teach him lessons.
-Scene 8= At night hangs out with Jacob and all this friends, they all dont beleive he can do all this bad stuff, they walk down street and ask for him to break in to a car, he does it they are all facinated. they ask him to break in a house he says no. Jacob starts wanting the attention too , he starts to try and be bad, from being this perfect little boy.
big revelation trope essay draft 4
This semester we are basing out class around Revelations. In my opinion , a Revelation is something that causes a change in someone, a slogan that you live by. its a new insight that changes the world and how you see it. in some cases, its something that has been covered from the "divine". Some examples that i came up with about Revelations is; experiencing death, childbirth,Martin Luther king, and many more.
A Revelation that i experienced is... when my dad found out that he had skin cancer, it changed everything. the doctors told him that theres a huge chance that i am immune to get it too if I'm in the sun too much. so it changed the way i see my dad and the way that i am when i go to tropical places, or anywhere with sun. this changed my life , and the way i see things.
In most Revelation stories, theres a Trope. A trope is the element in a story that creates the story...it sets the tone... something the repeats itself.Some elements that build up for a Revelation trope are; the reveler,the leader, the profit,the dumb masses...aka silent majority, the oppressor, the oppressive situation, the obstacles to the Revelation, the message, ETC. For example , in a movie Foxfire we saw a clip in class, and in this movie, Rita is the "silent one", she doesn't speak up for herself, shes the typical silent person that most movies have. Some other movies that have Revelation tropes are; Notes from Underground, Matrix, 1984, The Odyssey, Breakfast Club, most Disney movies, ETC.
Something that i would like to quote is, Andy's version of the key element of a Revelation trope... " the ignorant are in a unacceptable/oppressive situation when a prophet/reveler tries to share the message that connects the dots in a new way and offers a vision of a redeemed world but there is an opposition to the message/prophet drama occurs." I like this because it sets out everything and the elements in a Revelation trope in a simple way..that i can understand it .
RANDOM THOUGHT: In class when we talk about Revelations and tropes, its so weird to think about it. its weird to think about it because it makes it feel like the worlds changing so much and so fast. it makes it feel like that in a couple years who knows where we'll be. it feels like theres so many different Revelations popping up that slowing changes the way people view the world. i just hope that everything wont get TOO out of hand !
One thing that i noticed about profits , is that they are usually attractive, or look different, catches someones eye. i think they make the profits like this in movies and books, etc . because in real life, most people wouldn't exactly look up to an un-attractive normal person. [ as rude as that sounds ... its true :/ ]
I think that i look at the Revelation in THE MATRIX a little differently then others. i think that the Revelation in this movie , is just overall how Neo has to make the biggest decisions on his own . the fact that he had to pick either one or the other pills, which would change the way he saw EVERYTHINg in his life, was a huge decision that he had to make. Just watching him make that decision kind of made a Revelation in my mind. that part of the movie stood out to me because i tried to put myself in his shoes, and think "what would i do", to tell you the truth , i have no idea what i would do , i would be in a very difficult position. It made me realize that everyone around you are giving you SO MANY different opportunities to you, they are opening so many doors for myself, but i don't do anything about it, i don't make action . this reminds me of a quote in the MATRIX " I'm trying to free your mind from you, I'm showing you the door but you have to walk through it ...." this fits perfectly with the situation because hes giving him an opportunity but YOUR the one that has to take it in and walk through the door !
Another connection i made to Revelation tropes, is to the book THE WAVE. This book about a small town school, in this school theres a teacher that decides that he wants to do an experiment since the kids don't get the whole Nazi era. This experiment was called the wave, and it ended up going wrong. all the kids in this cult group named THE WAVE became like Nazi's and didn't know their way out. This story is a Revelation because everyone thought that its impossible to start a cult group as bad as the Nazi's , that it wouldn't repeat its self in history. But in the end, it did happen and everyone was shocked ! it was definitely a Revelation to everyone in the story, and even to me because it scared me , that it can actually happen , it was very realistic! in this book , Ben is Profit/Leader, Robert Billings is the silent masses/Outcast, Laurie is the popular one, and the rest of the school is the followers. I mention this because it shows that in most books its like this, theres the different characters and where they stand in the book, and most of the time is always the same!
In the famous story "Emperor's New Clothes" , its about this emperor who needs this amazing new suit of clothes made for him . These tailors tell him that " it is invisible to anyone who is too stupid and incompetent to appreciate its quality". They are talking about the fabrics of the clothes, if you cant see them , your stupid. So the emperor goes out to greet everyone, and he is naked. Only one little boy says something. he screams out saying "the emperor is naked! ". And that's when the Revelation starts. This was a Revelation for the emperor because he realized in the end how stupid he was , and that he couldn't believe that he believed those tailors. This story opens up my eyes , and makes me realize that there are so many people that wont say anything, if its out of their place, or makes them look stupid. they would rather keep quite that save someone from embarrassment or maybe something even worse.
MY 1st REVELATION STORY IDEA (not final one..scroll down for final one):
In class you asked us ; what Revelation story would make a good film? so we thought of different ideas. at first i thought that the story of The Wave would make an interesting movie, but then when i thought about it , its so chiche to make a movie about teachers and students, i wanted something different. i have another story in mind, but I'm not sure what exactly the Revelation is going to be and the profit, but its definitely a story that would open up teenager's eyes. the story is about this small suburban high school, with the jocks and teenagers, and all the clicks. in the story there is this one guy who is the most popular of them all, and is a huge player. It turns out that he has HIV , but doesn't tell anyone . he continues to have sex with all the girls in the school , and gets away with it all . in the end the girls in the school come to find out that they had gotten HIV, and then that's where i am at . like as i said, I'm not sure what the Revelation is , but if i saw a movie like this it would really open my eyes and change the way i see things. because i feel that so many people these days are getting diseases and dieing at very young ages, sooner or later every ones going to catch something from someone , then we are going to pass it on to our children, and everyone will be dieing at the age of 20 . i think that's a Revelation right there.
MY FINAL REVELATION STORY :
here are some notes on my final story.
- its going to be about a troubled boy coming from New York City and goes to a small town in Montana to find his mother but finds out that she died years ago.
- spends the nights sleeping in the town because he came with out money to go back home.
- gets taken in by the "perfect" family , he learns alot from them.
- the father of the family is the prophet , teaches this troubled boy alot.
- their son also learns alot from troubled boy, that life's not always supposed to be perfect.
- son turns out to be a little troubled himself. learns bad from the boy
- troubled boy learns alot and turns out to be a good boy, learns alot about life.
- fathers prophet by spending a day together, talk alot, ask questions,
- i think that my story will be a sneaking revalation because since hes a "bad" boy this idea of him turning good sneaks upon him but he really doesnt take it in.
- prophecy- "WE ARE ALL ONE" . this message is going to be sent by the father . telling the boy that even if you homeless and we are rich, we are still one. you can become like me, we are all capable to be a better person.
"WE SLEEP,THEY LIVE"
--In class we watched a movie called "They Live", and it had the prophecy of "we are all one" , in this case that all colors are one.
-- the trope in this movie is about the homeless people that the society's trying to put down. that they are put last AFTER everyone else. this trope reminds me of "The Matrix" because they are similar in the since that its "THEM" against "EVERYONE ELSE". [ "NEO" against the "WORLD".... "HOMELESS" against "EVERYONE ELSE IN SOCIETY"].
--in the movie the sunglasses reveal the truth, which is the revalation. When you look through the glasses everyone looks black, meaning every ones one.
-- one thing that i realized while watching this movie and the matrix is that right before the person has its Revelation, , they freak out. Neo threw up in the matrix, and the man in "they live" killed all the police.
-- the American flag being hung everywhere in the scenes i think connects back to the fact that every ones one. they keep on wanting to remind everyone that they all live in ONE country and that even if your Spanish, french , etc. that you are all AMERICAN because you in AMERICA now , not Mexico, France, Brazil, etc.
-- in the movie whenever the character would take off the glasses it would hurt. it shows that Revelations are thrilling but once you take it off, stop it, its hard and rough to go back to your old life, your everyday life before you realized this Revelation.
A TROPE:
* THE AWAKE VS. THE ASLEEP
*THE AWAKE= the people who are aware of whats going on , they know "whats up"
*THE ASLEEP= the people who are clueless about whats going on. they don't know "whats up".
* In "They Live" the people that are asleep are the people of the town...everyone that doesn't know about the glasses, the truth, are asleep. Then the people that are awake are the ones who use the glasses, that know the revelation.
* there are the masses that slowly increase in awakeness as everyone helps them realize the "truth". its not always just the prophet who gets everyone to realized this revalation!
To connect this to another story... in the WAVE, i thought the awake was the girl and the asleep was the whole school including the prophet; Ben. they were all asleep cause they all didn't realize that this experiment was like the Nazi's. And this girl was the only one against it.
JAIL MOVIE/GEORGE CARLIN:
Jail Movie--> In this jail movie that Andy showed us in class, There is a prisioner that is a comeidian and jokes about life. the one thing that he said that was the revelation was ; " its a new millinium". it kind of remindes me that one person can go into jail one year and not know what its like on the outside decades later. Hes stuck in the year that he arrived at jail in.
George Carlin--> George Carlin is a comedian that mocks America and the society. The quote that he said that stood out to me was ; " life is worth loosing". His message is that America's nice but we have these flaws. Some of these flaws is that America is like one BIG shopping mall, and every ones overweight. Everyone just shops and eats, and the one place where they have that 2-in-1 is a shopping mall, which in Carlin's words "is America". Carlin makes it funny by relating it to the way people act and even the way i act. its like a reality check , but in a hilarious way somehow. It like people are living this life that they don't even realize, and then theres the people like George Carlin that actually TALKS about their lives, and its shocking, you have no other way to react but to laugh, even ifs its the sad truth.
A Revelation that i experienced is... when my dad found out that he had skin cancer, it changed everything. the doctors told him that theres a huge chance that i am immune to get it too if I'm in the sun too much. so it changed the way i see my dad and the way that i am when i go to tropical places, or anywhere with sun. this changed my life , and the way i see things.
In most Revelation stories, theres a Trope. A trope is the element in a story that creates the story...it sets the tone... something the repeats itself.Some elements that build up for a Revelation trope are; the reveler,the leader, the profit,the dumb masses...aka silent majority, the oppressor, the oppressive situation, the obstacles to the Revelation, the message, ETC. For example , in a movie Foxfire we saw a clip in class, and in this movie, Rita is the "silent one", she doesn't speak up for herself, shes the typical silent person that most movies have. Some other movies that have Revelation tropes are; Notes from Underground, Matrix, 1984, The Odyssey, Breakfast Club, most Disney movies, ETC.
Something that i would like to quote is, Andy's version of the key element of a Revelation trope... " the ignorant are in a unacceptable/oppressive situation when a prophet/reveler tries to share the message that connects the dots in a new way and offers a vision of a redeemed world but there is an opposition to the message/prophet drama occurs." I like this because it sets out everything and the elements in a Revelation trope in a simple way..that i can understand it .
RANDOM THOUGHT: In class when we talk about Revelations and tropes, its so weird to think about it. its weird to think about it because it makes it feel like the worlds changing so much and so fast. it makes it feel like that in a couple years who knows where we'll be. it feels like theres so many different Revelations popping up that slowing changes the way people view the world. i just hope that everything wont get TOO out of hand !
One thing that i noticed about profits , is that they are usually attractive, or look different, catches someones eye. i think they make the profits like this in movies and books, etc . because in real life, most people wouldn't exactly look up to an un-attractive normal person. [ as rude as that sounds ... its true :/ ]
I think that i look at the Revelation in THE MATRIX a little differently then others. i think that the Revelation in this movie , is just overall how Neo has to make the biggest decisions on his own . the fact that he had to pick either one or the other pills, which would change the way he saw EVERYTHINg in his life, was a huge decision that he had to make. Just watching him make that decision kind of made a Revelation in my mind. that part of the movie stood out to me because i tried to put myself in his shoes, and think "what would i do", to tell you the truth , i have no idea what i would do , i would be in a very difficult position. It made me realize that everyone around you are giving you SO MANY different opportunities to you, they are opening so many doors for myself, but i don't do anything about it, i don't make action . this reminds me of a quote in the MATRIX " I'm trying to free your mind from you, I'm showing you the door but you have to walk through it ...." this fits perfectly with the situation because hes giving him an opportunity but YOUR the one that has to take it in and walk through the door !
Another connection i made to Revelation tropes, is to the book THE WAVE. This book about a small town school, in this school theres a teacher that decides that he wants to do an experiment since the kids don't get the whole Nazi era. This experiment was called the wave, and it ended up going wrong. all the kids in this cult group named THE WAVE became like Nazi's and didn't know their way out. This story is a Revelation because everyone thought that its impossible to start a cult group as bad as the Nazi's , that it wouldn't repeat its self in history. But in the end, it did happen and everyone was shocked ! it was definitely a Revelation to everyone in the story, and even to me because it scared me , that it can actually happen , it was very realistic! in this book , Ben is Profit/Leader, Robert Billings is the silent masses/Outcast, Laurie is the popular one, and the rest of the school is the followers. I mention this because it shows that in most books its like this, theres the different characters and where they stand in the book, and most of the time is always the same!
In the famous story "Emperor's New Clothes" , its about this emperor who needs this amazing new suit of clothes made for him . These tailors tell him that " it is invisible to anyone who is too stupid and incompetent to appreciate its quality". They are talking about the fabrics of the clothes, if you cant see them , your stupid. So the emperor goes out to greet everyone, and he is naked. Only one little boy says something. he screams out saying "the emperor is naked! ". And that's when the Revelation starts. This was a Revelation for the emperor because he realized in the end how stupid he was , and that he couldn't believe that he believed those tailors. This story opens up my eyes , and makes me realize that there are so many people that wont say anything, if its out of their place, or makes them look stupid. they would rather keep quite that save someone from embarrassment or maybe something even worse.
MY 1st REVELATION STORY IDEA (not final one..scroll down for final one):
In class you asked us ; what Revelation story would make a good film? so we thought of different ideas. at first i thought that the story of The Wave would make an interesting movie, but then when i thought about it , its so chiche to make a movie about teachers and students, i wanted something different. i have another story in mind, but I'm not sure what exactly the Revelation is going to be and the profit, but its definitely a story that would open up teenager's eyes. the story is about this small suburban high school, with the jocks and teenagers, and all the clicks. in the story there is this one guy who is the most popular of them all, and is a huge player. It turns out that he has HIV , but doesn't tell anyone . he continues to have sex with all the girls in the school , and gets away with it all . in the end the girls in the school come to find out that they had gotten HIV, and then that's where i am at . like as i said, I'm not sure what the Revelation is , but if i saw a movie like this it would really open my eyes and change the way i see things. because i feel that so many people these days are getting diseases and dieing at very young ages, sooner or later every ones going to catch something from someone , then we are going to pass it on to our children, and everyone will be dieing at the age of 20 . i think that's a Revelation right there.
MY FINAL REVELATION STORY :
here are some notes on my final story.
- its going to be about a troubled boy coming from New York City and goes to a small town in Montana to find his mother but finds out that she died years ago.
- spends the nights sleeping in the town because he came with out money to go back home.
- gets taken in by the "perfect" family , he learns alot from them.
- the father of the family is the prophet , teaches this troubled boy alot.
- their son also learns alot from troubled boy, that life's not always supposed to be perfect.
- son turns out to be a little troubled himself. learns bad from the boy
- troubled boy learns alot and turns out to be a good boy, learns alot about life.
- fathers prophet by spending a day together, talk alot, ask questions,
- i think that my story will be a sneaking revalation because since hes a "bad" boy this idea of him turning good sneaks upon him but he really doesnt take it in.
- prophecy- "WE ARE ALL ONE" . this message is going to be sent by the father . telling the boy that even if you homeless and we are rich, we are still one. you can become like me, we are all capable to be a better person.
"WE SLEEP,THEY LIVE"
--In class we watched a movie called "They Live", and it had the prophecy of "we are all one" , in this case that all colors are one.
-- the trope in this movie is about the homeless people that the society's trying to put down. that they are put last AFTER everyone else. this trope reminds me of "The Matrix" because they are similar in the since that its "THEM" against "EVERYONE ELSE". [ "NEO" against the "WORLD".... "HOMELESS" against "EVERYONE ELSE IN SOCIETY"].
--in the movie the sunglasses reveal the truth, which is the revalation. When you look through the glasses everyone looks black, meaning every ones one.
-- one thing that i realized while watching this movie and the matrix is that right before the person has its Revelation, , they freak out. Neo threw up in the matrix, and the man in "they live" killed all the police.
-- the American flag being hung everywhere in the scenes i think connects back to the fact that every ones one. they keep on wanting to remind everyone that they all live in ONE country and that even if your Spanish, french , etc. that you are all AMERICAN because you in AMERICA now , not Mexico, France, Brazil, etc.
-- in the movie whenever the character would take off the glasses it would hurt. it shows that Revelations are thrilling but once you take it off, stop it, its hard and rough to go back to your old life, your everyday life before you realized this Revelation.
A TROPE:
* THE AWAKE VS. THE ASLEEP
*THE AWAKE= the people who are aware of whats going on , they know "whats up"
*THE ASLEEP= the people who are clueless about whats going on. they don't know "whats up".
* In "They Live" the people that are asleep are the people of the town...everyone that doesn't know about the glasses, the truth, are asleep. Then the people that are awake are the ones who use the glasses, that know the revelation.
* there are the masses that slowly increase in awakeness as everyone helps them realize the "truth". its not always just the prophet who gets everyone to realized this revalation!
To connect this to another story... in the WAVE, i thought the awake was the girl and the asleep was the whole school including the prophet; Ben. they were all asleep cause they all didn't realize that this experiment was like the Nazi's. And this girl was the only one against it.
JAIL MOVIE/GEORGE CARLIN:
Jail Movie--> In this jail movie that Andy showed us in class, There is a prisioner that is a comeidian and jokes about life. the one thing that he said that was the revelation was ; " its a new millinium". it kind of remindes me that one person can go into jail one year and not know what its like on the outside decades later. Hes stuck in the year that he arrived at jail in.
George Carlin--> George Carlin is a comedian that mocks America and the society. The quote that he said that stood out to me was ; " life is worth loosing". His message is that America's nice but we have these flaws. Some of these flaws is that America is like one BIG shopping mall, and every ones overweight. Everyone just shops and eats, and the one place where they have that 2-in-1 is a shopping mall, which in Carlin's words "is America". Carlin makes it funny by relating it to the way people act and even the way i act. its like a reality check , but in a hilarious way somehow. It like people are living this life that they don't even realize, and then theres the people like George Carlin that actually TALKS about their lives, and its shocking, you have no other way to react but to laugh, even ifs its the sad truth.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Big Revelation Trope Essay -DRAFT 3
This semester we are basing out class around Revelations. In my opinion , a Revelation is something that causes a change in someone, a slogan that you live by. its a new insight that changes the world and how you see it. in some cases, its something that has been covered from the "divine". Some examples that i came up with about Revelations is; experiencing death, childbirth,Martin Luther king, and many more.
A Revelation that i experienced is... when my dad found out that he had skin cancer, it changed everything. the doctors told him that theres a huge chance that i am immune to get it too if I'm in the sun too much. so it changed the way i see my dad and the way that i am when i go to tropical places, or anywhere with sun. this changed my life , and the way i see things.
In most Revelation stories, theres a Trope. A trope is the element in a story that creates the story...it sets the tone... something the repeats itself.Some elements that build up for a Revelation trope are; the reveler,the leader, the profit,the dumb masses...aka silent majority, the oppressor, the oppressive situation, the obstacles to the Revelation, the message, ETC. For example , in a movie Foxfire we saw a clip in class, and in this movie, Rita is the "silent one", she doesn't speak up for herself, shes the typical silent person that most movies have. Some other movies that have Revelation tropes are; Notes from Underground, Matrix, 1984, The Odyssey, Breakfast Club, most Disney movies, ETC.
Something that i would like to quote is, Andy's version of the key element of a Revelation trope... " the ignorant are in a unacceptable/oppressive situation when a prophet/reveler tries to share the message that connects the dots in a new way and offers a vision of a redeemed world but there is an opposition to the message/prophet drama occurs." I like this because it sets out everything and the elements in a Revelation trope in a simple way..that i can understand it .
RANDOM THOUGHT: In class when we talk about Revelations and tropes, its so weird to think about it. its weird to think about it because it makes it feel like the worlds changing so much and so fast. it makes it feel like that in a couple years who knows where we'll be. it feels like theres so many different Revelations popping up that slowing changes the way people view the world. i just hope that everything wont get TOO out of hand !
One thing that i noticed about profits , is that they are usually attractive, or look different, catches someones eye. i think they make the profits like this in movies and books, etc . because in real life, most people wouldn't exactly look up to an un-attractive normal person. [ as rude as that sounds ... its true :/ ]
I think that i look at the Revelation in THE MATRIX a little differently then others. i think that the Revelation in this movie , is just overall how Neo has to make the biggest decisions on his own . the fact that he had to pick either one or the other pills, which would change the way he saw EVERYTHINg in his life, was a huge decision that he had to make. Just watching him make that decision kind of made a Revelation in my mind. that part of the movie stood out to me because i tried to put myself in his shoes, and think "what would i do", to tell you the truth , i have no idea what i would do , i would be in a very difficult position. It made me realize that everyone around you are giving you SO MANY different opportunities to you, they are opening so many doors for myself, but i don't do anything about it, i don't make action . this reminds me of a quote in the MATRIX " I'm trying to free your mind from you, I'm showing you the door but you have to walk through it ...." this fits perfectly with the situation because hes giving him an opportunity but YOUR the one that has to take it in and walk through the door !
Another connection i made to Revelation tropes, is to the book THE WAVE. This book about a small town school, in this school theres a teacher that decides that he wants to do an experiment since the kids don't get the whole Nazi era. This experiment was called the wave, and it ended up going wrong. all the kids in this cult group named THE WAVE became like Nazi's and didn't know their way out. This story is a Revelation because everyone thought that its impossible to start a cult group as bad as the Nazi's , that it wouldn't repeat its self in history. But in the end, it did happen and everyone was shocked ! it was definitely a Revelation to everyone in the story, and even to me because it scared me , that it can actually happen , it was very realistic! in this book , Ben is Profit/Leader, Robert Billings is the silent masses/Outcast, Laurie is the popular one, and the rest of the school is the followers. I mention this because it shows that in most books its like this, theres the different characters and where they stand in the book, and most of the time is always the same!
In the famous story "Emperor's New Clothes" , its about this emperor who needs this amazing new suit of clothes made for him . These tailors tell him that " it is invisible to anyone who is too stupid and incompetent to appreciate its quality". They are talking about the fabrics of the clothes, if you cant see them , your stupid. So the emperor goes out to greet everyone, and he is naked. Only one little boy says something. he screams out saying "the emperor is naked! ". And that's when the Revelation starts. This was a Revelation for the emperor because he realized in the end how stupid he was , and that he couldn't believe that he believed those tailors. This story opens up my eyes , and makes me realize that there are so many people that wont say anything, if its out of their place, or makes them look stupid. they would rather keep quite that save someone from embarrassment or maybe something even worse.
MY 1st REVELATION STORY IDEA (not final one..scroll down for final one):
In class you asked us ; what Revelation story would make a good film? so we thought of different ideas. at first i thought that the story of The Wave would make an interesting movie, but then when i thought about it , its so chiche to make a movie about teachers and students, i wanted something different. i have another story in mind, but I'm not sure what exactly the Revelation is going to be and the profit, but its definitely a story that would open up teenager's eyes. the story is about this small suburban high school, with the jocks and teenagers, and all the clicks. in the story there is this one guy who is the most popular of them all, and is a huge player. It turns out that he has HIV , but doesn't tell anyone . he continues to have sex with all the girls in the school , and gets away with it all . in the end the girls in the school come to find out that they had gotten HIV, and then that's where i am at . like as i said, I'm not sure what the Revelation is , but if i saw a movie like this it would really open my eyes and change the way i see things. because i feel that so many people these days are getting diseases and dieing at very young ages, sooner or later every ones going to catch something from someone , then we are going to pass it on to our children, and everyone will be dieing at the age of 20 . i think that's a Revelation right there.
MY FINAL REVELATION STORY :
here are some notes on my final story.
- its going to be about a troubled boy coming from New York City and goes to a small town in Montana to find his mother but finds out that she died years ago.
- spends the nights sleeping in the town because he came with out money to go back home.
- gets taken in by the "perfect" family , he learns alot from them.
- the father of the family is the prophet , teaches this troubled boy alot.
- their son also learns alot from troubled boy, that life's not always supposed to be perfect.
- son turns out to be a little troubled himself. learns bad from the boy
- troubled boy learns alot and turns out to be a good boy, learns alot about life.
- fathers prophet by spending a day together, talk alot, ask questions,
- i think that my story will be a sneaking revalation because since hes a "bad" boy this idea of him turning good sneaks upon him but he really doesnt take it in.
- prophecy- "WE ARE ALL ONE" . this message is going to be sent by the father . telling the boy that even if you homeless and we are rich, we are still one. you can become like me, we are all capable to be a better person.
"WE SLEEP,THEY LIVE"
--In class we watched a movie called "They Live", and it had the prophecy of "we are all one" , in this case that all colors are one.
-- the trope in this movie is about the homeless people that the society's trying to put down. that they are put last AFTER everyone else. this trope reminds me of "The Matrix" because they are similar in the since that its "THEM" against "EVERYONE ELSE". [ "NEO" against the "WORLD".... "HOMELESS" against "EVERYONE ELSE IN SOCIETY"].
--in the movie the sunglasses reveal the truth, which is the revalation. When you look through the glasses everyone looks black, meaning every ones one.
-- one thing that i realized while watching this movie and the matrix is that right before the person has its Revelation, , they freak out. Neo threw up in the matrix, and the man in "they live" killed all the police.
-- the American flag being hung everywhere in the scenes i think connects back to the fact that every ones one. they keep on wanting to remind everyone that they all live in ONE country and that even if your Spanish, french , etc. that you are all AMERICAN because you in AMERICA now , not Mexico, France, Brazil, etc.
-- in the movie whenever the character would take off the glasses it would hurt. it shows that Revelations are thrilling but once you take it off, stop it, its hard and rough to go back to your old life, your everyday life before you realized this Revelation.
A TROPE:
* THE AWAKE VS. THE ASLEEP
*THE AWAKE= the people who are aware of whats going on , they know "whats up"
*THE ASLEEP= the people who are clueless about whats going on. they don't know "whats up".
* In "They Live" the people that are asleep are the people of the town...everyone that doesn't know about the glasses, the truth, are asleep. Then the people that are awake are the ones who use the glasses, that know the revelation.
* there are the masses that slowly increase in awakeness as everyone helps them realize the "truth". its not always just the prophet who gets everyone to realized this revalation!
To connect this to another story... in the WAVE the awake i thought was the girl and the asleep was the whole school including the prophet; Ben. they were all asleep cause they all didn't realize that this experiment was like the Nazi's. And this girl was the only one against it.
A Revelation that i experienced is... when my dad found out that he had skin cancer, it changed everything. the doctors told him that theres a huge chance that i am immune to get it too if I'm in the sun too much. so it changed the way i see my dad and the way that i am when i go to tropical places, or anywhere with sun. this changed my life , and the way i see things.
In most Revelation stories, theres a Trope. A trope is the element in a story that creates the story...it sets the tone... something the repeats itself.Some elements that build up for a Revelation trope are; the reveler,the leader, the profit,the dumb masses...aka silent majority, the oppressor, the oppressive situation, the obstacles to the Revelation, the message, ETC. For example , in a movie Foxfire we saw a clip in class, and in this movie, Rita is the "silent one", she doesn't speak up for herself, shes the typical silent person that most movies have. Some other movies that have Revelation tropes are; Notes from Underground, Matrix, 1984, The Odyssey, Breakfast Club, most Disney movies, ETC.
Something that i would like to quote is, Andy's version of the key element of a Revelation trope... " the ignorant are in a unacceptable/oppressive situation when a prophet/reveler tries to share the message that connects the dots in a new way and offers a vision of a redeemed world but there is an opposition to the message/prophet drama occurs." I like this because it sets out everything and the elements in a Revelation trope in a simple way..that i can understand it .
RANDOM THOUGHT: In class when we talk about Revelations and tropes, its so weird to think about it. its weird to think about it because it makes it feel like the worlds changing so much and so fast. it makes it feel like that in a couple years who knows where we'll be. it feels like theres so many different Revelations popping up that slowing changes the way people view the world. i just hope that everything wont get TOO out of hand !
One thing that i noticed about profits , is that they are usually attractive, or look different, catches someones eye. i think they make the profits like this in movies and books, etc . because in real life, most people wouldn't exactly look up to an un-attractive normal person. [ as rude as that sounds ... its true :/ ]
I think that i look at the Revelation in THE MATRIX a little differently then others. i think that the Revelation in this movie , is just overall how Neo has to make the biggest decisions on his own . the fact that he had to pick either one or the other pills, which would change the way he saw EVERYTHINg in his life, was a huge decision that he had to make. Just watching him make that decision kind of made a Revelation in my mind. that part of the movie stood out to me because i tried to put myself in his shoes, and think "what would i do", to tell you the truth , i have no idea what i would do , i would be in a very difficult position. It made me realize that everyone around you are giving you SO MANY different opportunities to you, they are opening so many doors for myself, but i don't do anything about it, i don't make action . this reminds me of a quote in the MATRIX " I'm trying to free your mind from you, I'm showing you the door but you have to walk through it ...." this fits perfectly with the situation because hes giving him an opportunity but YOUR the one that has to take it in and walk through the door !
Another connection i made to Revelation tropes, is to the book THE WAVE. This book about a small town school, in this school theres a teacher that decides that he wants to do an experiment since the kids don't get the whole Nazi era. This experiment was called the wave, and it ended up going wrong. all the kids in this cult group named THE WAVE became like Nazi's and didn't know their way out. This story is a Revelation because everyone thought that its impossible to start a cult group as bad as the Nazi's , that it wouldn't repeat its self in history. But in the end, it did happen and everyone was shocked ! it was definitely a Revelation to everyone in the story, and even to me because it scared me , that it can actually happen , it was very realistic! in this book , Ben is Profit/Leader, Robert Billings is the silent masses/Outcast, Laurie is the popular one, and the rest of the school is the followers. I mention this because it shows that in most books its like this, theres the different characters and where they stand in the book, and most of the time is always the same!
In the famous story "Emperor's New Clothes" , its about this emperor who needs this amazing new suit of clothes made for him . These tailors tell him that " it is invisible to anyone who is too stupid and incompetent to appreciate its quality". They are talking about the fabrics of the clothes, if you cant see them , your stupid. So the emperor goes out to greet everyone, and he is naked. Only one little boy says something. he screams out saying "the emperor is naked! ". And that's when the Revelation starts. This was a Revelation for the emperor because he realized in the end how stupid he was , and that he couldn't believe that he believed those tailors. This story opens up my eyes , and makes me realize that there are so many people that wont say anything, if its out of their place, or makes them look stupid. they would rather keep quite that save someone from embarrassment or maybe something even worse.
MY 1st REVELATION STORY IDEA (not final one..scroll down for final one):
In class you asked us ; what Revelation story would make a good film? so we thought of different ideas. at first i thought that the story of The Wave would make an interesting movie, but then when i thought about it , its so chiche to make a movie about teachers and students, i wanted something different. i have another story in mind, but I'm not sure what exactly the Revelation is going to be and the profit, but its definitely a story that would open up teenager's eyes. the story is about this small suburban high school, with the jocks and teenagers, and all the clicks. in the story there is this one guy who is the most popular of them all, and is a huge player. It turns out that he has HIV , but doesn't tell anyone . he continues to have sex with all the girls in the school , and gets away with it all . in the end the girls in the school come to find out that they had gotten HIV, and then that's where i am at . like as i said, I'm not sure what the Revelation is , but if i saw a movie like this it would really open my eyes and change the way i see things. because i feel that so many people these days are getting diseases and dieing at very young ages, sooner or later every ones going to catch something from someone , then we are going to pass it on to our children, and everyone will be dieing at the age of 20 . i think that's a Revelation right there.
MY FINAL REVELATION STORY :
here are some notes on my final story.
- its going to be about a troubled boy coming from New York City and goes to a small town in Montana to find his mother but finds out that she died years ago.
- spends the nights sleeping in the town because he came with out money to go back home.
- gets taken in by the "perfect" family , he learns alot from them.
- the father of the family is the prophet , teaches this troubled boy alot.
- their son also learns alot from troubled boy, that life's not always supposed to be perfect.
- son turns out to be a little troubled himself. learns bad from the boy
- troubled boy learns alot and turns out to be a good boy, learns alot about life.
- fathers prophet by spending a day together, talk alot, ask questions,
- i think that my story will be a sneaking revalation because since hes a "bad" boy this idea of him turning good sneaks upon him but he really doesnt take it in.
- prophecy- "WE ARE ALL ONE" . this message is going to be sent by the father . telling the boy that even if you homeless and we are rich, we are still one. you can become like me, we are all capable to be a better person.
"WE SLEEP,THEY LIVE"
--In class we watched a movie called "They Live", and it had the prophecy of "we are all one" , in this case that all colors are one.
-- the trope in this movie is about the homeless people that the society's trying to put down. that they are put last AFTER everyone else. this trope reminds me of "The Matrix" because they are similar in the since that its "THEM" against "EVERYONE ELSE". [ "NEO" against the "WORLD".... "HOMELESS" against "EVERYONE ELSE IN SOCIETY"].
--in the movie the sunglasses reveal the truth, which is the revalation. When you look through the glasses everyone looks black, meaning every ones one.
-- one thing that i realized while watching this movie and the matrix is that right before the person has its Revelation, , they freak out. Neo threw up in the matrix, and the man in "they live" killed all the police.
-- the American flag being hung everywhere in the scenes i think connects back to the fact that every ones one. they keep on wanting to remind everyone that they all live in ONE country and that even if your Spanish, french , etc. that you are all AMERICAN because you in AMERICA now , not Mexico, France, Brazil, etc.
-- in the movie whenever the character would take off the glasses it would hurt. it shows that Revelations are thrilling but once you take it off, stop it, its hard and rough to go back to your old life, your everyday life before you realized this Revelation.
A TROPE:
* THE AWAKE VS. THE ASLEEP
*THE AWAKE= the people who are aware of whats going on , they know "whats up"
*THE ASLEEP= the people who are clueless about whats going on. they don't know "whats up".
* In "They Live" the people that are asleep are the people of the town...everyone that doesn't know about the glasses, the truth, are asleep. Then the people that are awake are the ones who use the glasses, that know the revelation.
* there are the masses that slowly increase in awakeness as everyone helps them realize the "truth". its not always just the prophet who gets everyone to realized this revalation!
To connect this to another story... in the WAVE the awake i thought was the girl and the asleep was the whole school including the prophet; Ben. they were all asleep cause they all didn't realize that this experiment was like the Nazi's. And this girl was the only one against it.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Live Prophet Essay
Now we've seen all of these prophets within all of these movies and books, so now its time for my to evaluate my own life, and figure out who's MY prophet.
I would say that my prophet is; Andy in last semesters class. Last semester was when we were doing the “ Insight Into Daily Life” unit, and that's when I realized that he was a prophet in my eyes.
After taking this class I changed so many different things about myself for the better. This class made me realize so many things about myself, and I wouldn't be able to do that with out Andy's help and lessons, which is why I think of him as a prophet. I also believe that I had a “mini” revelation while taking this class. I don't exactly know how to describe what the revelation was but it just changed the way that I interacted with others. It was a revelation to me because I realized that, thanks to this class, the way I interact with others could change the rest of my life. Like for when I go to college I know have skills to take with me to interact with others, I now know how to be a good listener and give good feed back which will lead to having many friends in college. And that its self I think is a revelation for myself because I think friends is a very important aspect in life. I also think that in order to succeed in life you need to have good communication skills. And now I know that I have all of these skills, thanks to Andy. I also believe that Andy is a live prophet for many of his students.
In our situation I would say that Andy is the “teacher/leader” type of prophet, and that I am the silent mass, I am the quite student that doesn't say much. In my situation I don't talk as much, I just take in everything that he teaches us and take it further by using it in my daily life.
I would say that my prophet is; Andy in last semesters class. Last semester was when we were doing the “ Insight Into Daily Life” unit, and that's when I realized that he was a prophet in my eyes.
After taking this class I changed so many different things about myself for the better. This class made me realize so many things about myself, and I wouldn't be able to do that with out Andy's help and lessons, which is why I think of him as a prophet. I also believe that I had a “mini” revelation while taking this class. I don't exactly know how to describe what the revelation was but it just changed the way that I interacted with others. It was a revelation to me because I realized that, thanks to this class, the way I interact with others could change the rest of my life. Like for when I go to college I know have skills to take with me to interact with others, I now know how to be a good listener and give good feed back which will lead to having many friends in college. And that its self I think is a revelation for myself because I think friends is a very important aspect in life. I also think that in order to succeed in life you need to have good communication skills. And now I know that I have all of these skills, thanks to Andy. I also believe that Andy is a live prophet for many of his students.
In our situation I would say that Andy is the “teacher/leader” type of prophet, and that I am the silent mass, I am the quite student that doesn't say much. In my situation I don't talk as much, I just take in everything that he teaches us and take it further by using it in my daily life.
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