DUTIES IN LIFE 

    

           Sometimes in life people believe it's there duty to find the truth out even when sometimes it's best to just leave things unknown and just move on in life. We sometimes think knowing everything is best. Well sometimes it can be good and it can be bad to think it's your duty to do these this. In the book 12angry men the judge makes the jury duty to do this to know everything that has went on during the crime scene learn every fact and to use it to judge someone's fate. He does this by saying "It's now your duty to sit down and try and separate the facts from the fancy". This is an example of having the duty to know everything as a good. This is example of a good because I'm our court of law this is how we judge weather someone in this case should be sent to the death or let free. So if we was to just not know everything we would just be sending people away and choosing their fate without using or knowing the facts to the situation. But one bad example of people thinking its duty to know everything is in Edipus.in the story Edipus killed  his father and did exactly what the prohet said he was going to do . But in the story he was so focused on trying to find out who killed his dad and send him away for doing so that he was really the one and instead of listen to him wife/mother and just taking over the kingdom and just runing it right .he decide he had to know even thou his life was perfect and set he had to know and he wide up finding out that he was really the one that did it. This example shows how when people think it's their duty to know all of the facts that it can go bad instead of just living and continuing to do right by everyone. Do you think knowing everything can be a negative in someone's life? And do you think that knowing to much can be bad and change your fate badly?

FATE

         On Friday Mrs.momreo showed us some examples of blogs and once was on this book 12 angry men that I am currently reading and in the blog the main topic was fate and how is our fat really in our hands or in the hands of other . It also connected to another book we read Oedipus and in this book his fate was decided by others. But I think our fate is destined by a series of people who we have never met nor have in connections too or a connection to each other.  In the book 12 angry men the boy who is being prosecuted is being judge by the 12 jury who gets to choose his fate; weather he goes to the electric chair or is set free due to what they believe is right. With out him knowing the boy at all. But this not what I a, talking about the men not knowing the boy but how the men in the story never met each other before seen each other nothing but have the fate of another human in there hand. At the end of the movie they all walk out of the court house and as all of the jury is leaving #9 catches up with # 8 and asked him " What's your name. Jury #9 answer McCardle and#8 introducers him self as Davis" just reminded us that people who don't know each other can control other fate. Just as in Edipus the 2 shepards men who never knew each other controlled Edipus fate by not killing him and , giving him a second chance in life just as the 12 angry men gave the boy another chance to live. These two story's both have people who don't know each other crossing paths in another person life to decide the fate of the main character .changing the the characters life with each decision that these stranger make.

Do you think other people who you may never meet help choose your fate? And do you think everyone fate crosses panther with someone else's ?

book preview

12 angry men
in this book 12 angry men it takes place in  new York city court in1957.it starts with us learning about the cause and if the defendant is found guilty then he will be sentenced to a mandonatry sentence of the death penalty. Then the jury comes in complaining  about how hot the room was that they just left. The defendant was accused of killing his father and the 12 jury voted guilty except the 8 man who voted not guilty .which means they have to discussed the case again making other act crazy because they are probably tired of being ther.so they go back to talk about it and they go around the table saying why they thing he is guilty .while going around a teaming up on why the defendant is guilty happens happens between 3rd and 10th man but the 10th man is what I want to talk about during his rally with the 3rd man he reveals that he is really racist against the defendant and that making it why he thinks he is wrong so I have a question is judging a person character by there skin right and not by their character ? and does this type of thing happen in court a lot where people get found guilty due to there skin? I think that this happened more than we think ok some people do commit crimes but I don't think someone who is racist should be on the jury determine someone's life having another human being life in there hands and destroying it by sending them to jail all because you hate a person skin color due to past experience and judging a person while you have no clue their character . in this book so far by what I read seem to have the same problem that continue to happen today in court. they have gotten better at it in our day and age with more checks so a person wouldn't be judge and looked at differently but only focused on the case and those type of thing not his background or his skin so he wouldn't be judge differently but this book is good so far and I do recommend it to another person who like shows like law and order and crime type of shows.

Social levels 

In the story "Kaffir Boy" something happens that i have had felt before. in the story it is about a boy who lives in Africa and the school he goes to is for black and the kids who has less money and he explains how people make him feel about going there and that the white school is better because they have more money . well in the story he was really giving examples how he is nothing compared to this white people. in the beginning he realize how they are better the schools what they wear , how they get bused to school they have a pool cross guard they live in big house all that how they doesn't  have to go mow people lawns rake leaves and water flowers and be called names. so through the story he just like they are better than me him by giving him easy to read books because his mind is smaller and incapable of reading all this till his he start second guessing it .the are they better than us because they have this and i do not? the passage wasn't big enough for me to find out if the boy ever realize just because they have material things doesn't mean they are better than you. and i have learned that already. i was told before that i wasn't going to be nothing because i went to a black school and the education wasn't good and it was violence and gang activity i believed it for a second then as soon as i learned that just because a person was giving this doesn't mean he is going to have it that easy later in life because it was giving to them. the person wont know what hard work is because something was giving to them while because i didn't have it and i was always working for it then i will know what it is to do hard work. but in this story is also shows social level just like the last story. it showed what social level the blacks was on compared to the whites and how they blacks look at the white as they are lucky and i wish i was them and how the whites looked at a lower social level shocked in surprised they lived like this. do you think social levels matter on how we view people before we even get to know them ?

The Stolen party

In the story "the Stolen Party" there was a lot that happen but the main thing about this story that pops up is how would someone feel if they thought they was at an event for one reason as a guest but was really invited just to be entertainment and another thing that pops up is how was the Rosaura was so strong not to speak her mind and her feeling about all of it and in the story they compare her to the monkey in a cage and how she is stuck on that social level as a servant as the monkey was to the magician. this had to deeply offend Rosaura and her mother.i do not understand how people just because you have money can think you are better higher than someone to the point where you can just hurt someone feeling and make them feel like less of a person but to be exact be compared to a monkey. because somewhere down the line your family was always rich. in this story this made me feel weird and just made me realize that if i ever get rich i will never treat someone like less of a person how they did her. no matter how big i get that we are all humans. another thing that i realize in this story is social levels how just because she is the maids daughter they can be friends because shes not on their level she is  just seen as the maids daughter. social levels should never depict who your friends are. i could be a have billions doesn't mean i can be friends with someone who is middle class or is on  welfare money should never be how you judge a person character. Rosaura could have 1 dollar to her name but be the greatest person in the world. that another issue i seen in the story. this story shows you a lot with out you even know a lot of in time problems how people get treated everywhere daily. do you think what happened in this story is right? how she is treated right?

Gender Roles 

Gender roles. do you think because you are a man that you can be a stay home day that you have to be so called manly and go out and be the bread winner and be the only one to provide. that women cant go out in the work force and make more than the man and let the man take care of the kids.women have to cook clean and raise the kids by her self, this is so called gender roles is not  right everyone can do anything man or female and in the story's we have been read there is endless examples of gender roles but the story where gender roles is the main topics is "Girl" by Jamaica 

Kincaid. this story is about how a girl is growing from a girl to a woman and on her way through growth , her mother is teacher her things she cant and shouldn't do because she is a girl. so in the beginning of the story her mom was teaching her proper  edict how to walk and that girls go to church on Sundays but also how girls shouldn't  play with boys in the dark because it not lady like. so the next phase in the girls life is teenage like 17 and 18 years old the typicality age where girl and boys start to like each other and show emotion. well her mother let her know that you shouldn't show to man boys attention because you do not want people knowing you are a so called hoe and that if you finally find the right guy that he should only benefit you and that through all them year when she was younger she was just prepping g her to be a great wife how to clean iron cook sweep the corner of the house etc. all because  this is what girl do so through the story her mom was prepping her to do what people girl should do which was putting her in a typical gender role she didn't teach her to go for what she wants and how to do hard work gets success in anything she taught her to be a stay at home mom because that is what society thought women should do which is a gender role.would you teach you daughter to just do that how to serve a man or will you teach her how to be independent and how to go get what she wants? 

In this book a lot goes on but the whole book has a theme and I think the theme of my book has to do with religion and how the government is trying to confine people to one religion and not let people have freedom to believe what they want to such as Marjane who believes in God and has strong faith in God . Her government also try to cover up the wrong that there doing in their country such as them making there women cover up there identity so it's like it they connect so the same way there covering up what's the truth they make their women cover up there true look and identity .this book has slot of themes but I don't thinks it's right how governments can do this to people like they don't have no morals or care about no one feelings or well being they are monsters . If this was you and you had to run a government could you make people live this way or would you give them freedom with some type of rules just to keep order ?