We started the week off the same way we always do; by watching and listening to a spoken word poem. This poem specifically really piqued my interest. It was called, The Gift by Desmond Spann. It was about how we, as the youth of the world, are not the future of the world. But rather we are the present. I interpreted it to mean that we must live for who we are today, for our dreams today, not for ten years from now. Don’t wait for the perfect timing. Take the chance. Don’t wait for tomorrow. I took it to mean that we cannot be so focused on what is to happen that we are waiting for it to happen. I enjoyed it a lot.
On Wednesday, we started Oedipus by Sophocles. I thought the book was extremely intriguing. Basically, it was about a king who was trying so hard to avoid a prophecy. The prophecy claimed that he would kill his father and then marry and father his mother’s children. In his desperate efforts to avoid this prophecy, he ended up making it come true. He ran away from his parents, blindly killed his father when his father and some other people jumped him, and married a woman whom he had not suspected was related to him. This all relates back to when we were studying elements of fiction and would fit in the situational irony category I believe. I also think it fits into modern day situations, not because often men are prophesied to kill their father and then father their mother’s children, but because when you try to avoid something so specifically, it usually ends up happening. Like, my mother told me that my phone insurance was up and would not cover me if I broke my phone again and to not break my phone, so of course, two weeks later, though I tried so hard not to, I smashed my screen.
On Wednesday, we started Oedipus by Sophocles. I thought the book was extremely intriguing. Basically, it was about a king who was trying so hard to avoid a prophecy. The prophecy claimed that he would kill his father and then marry and father his mother’s children. In his desperate efforts to avoid this prophecy, he ended up making it come true. He ran away from his parents, blindly killed his father when his father and some other people jumped him, and married a woman whom he had not suspected was related to him. This all relates back to when we were studying elements of fiction and would fit in the situational irony category I believe. I also think it fits into modern day situations, not because often men are prophesied to kill their father and then father their mother’s children, but because when you try to avoid something so specifically, it usually ends up happening. Like, my mother told me that my phone insurance was up and would not cover me if I broke my phone again and to not break my phone, so of course, two weeks later, though I tried so hard not to, I smashed my screen.