Literature asks us to be philosophical, to think about our place in the world. When we read, one could say we are working toward enlightenment.
What does that word mean to you? Enlightenment. Authentic self?
We will begin this journey with a piece from the 4th century, Plato’s Allegory of a Cave. As you read along with me, think about what you see, both literally and symbolically.
Directions: Please read and study the following from Plato’s Republic, titled, Allegory of a Cave. Next, in this blog space:
Directions: Please read and study the following from Plato’s Republic, titled, Allegory of a Cave. Next, in this blog space:
1) Discuss a personal experience where you experienced liberation from the cave.
2) Describe a character who went through the stages using one of the summer reading selections.
Engage with each other. Use the text. Be genuine and authentic. Think about the value of words by being concise. Think about your audience. Also, revisit the blog. Read and respond to your fellow classmates. Get a dialogue going. Challenge each other. Be bold. Be brilliant.
" And now, I said (Plato), let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground cave, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the cave; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.
- I see (Glaucon).
And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent.
- You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.
Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?
- True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows?
- Yes, he said.
And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?
- Very true.
And suppose further that the prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passers-by spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadow?
- No question, he replied.
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
- That is certain.
And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision, -what will be his reply? And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them, will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?
- Far truer.
And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take and take in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him?
- That is true.
And suppose once more, that he is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent, and held fast until he 's forced into the presence of the sun himself, is he not likely to be pained and irritated? When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see anything at all of what are now called realities.
- Not all in a moment, he said.
He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?
- Certainly.
Last of he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is.
- Certainly.
He will then proceed to argue that this is he who gives the season and the years, and is the guardian of all that is in the visible world, and in a certain way the cause of all things which he and his fellows have been accustomed to behold?
Clearly, he said, he would first see the sun and then reason about him. And when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the cave and his fellow-prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?
- Certainly, he would.
And if they were in the habit of conferring honors among themselves on those who were quickest to observe the passing shadows and to remark which of them went before, and which followed after, and which were together; and who were therefore best able to draw conclusions as to the future, do you think that he would care for such honors and glories, or envy the possessors of them? Would he not say with Homer, Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner?
- Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.
Imagine once more, I said, such a one coming suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness?
- To be sure, he said.
And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the cave, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable) would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.
- No question, he said.
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
(4th c. B.C.)
(From Plato's Republic, Book 7)
- I see (Glaucon).
And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent.
- You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.
Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?
- True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows?
- Yes, he said.
And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?
- Very true.
And suppose further that the prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passers-by spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadow?
- No question, he replied.
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
- That is certain.
And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision, -what will be his reply? And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them, will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?
- Far truer.
And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take and take in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him?
- That is true.
And suppose once more, that he is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent, and held fast until he 's forced into the presence of the sun himself, is he not likely to be pained and irritated? When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see anything at all of what are now called realities.
- Not all in a moment, he said.
He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?
- Certainly.
Last of he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is.
- Certainly.
He will then proceed to argue that this is he who gives the season and the years, and is the guardian of all that is in the visible world, and in a certain way the cause of all things which he and his fellows have been accustomed to behold?
Clearly, he said, he would first see the sun and then reason about him. And when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the cave and his fellow-prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?
- Certainly, he would.
And if they were in the habit of conferring honors among themselves on those who were quickest to observe the passing shadows and to remark which of them went before, and which followed after, and which were together; and who were therefore best able to draw conclusions as to the future, do you think that he would care for such honors and glories, or envy the possessors of them? Would he not say with Homer, Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner?
- Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.
Imagine once more, I said, such a one coming suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness?
- To be sure, he said.
And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the cave, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable) would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.
- No question, he said.
Luke Newton
ReplyDeleteEnlightenment is something almost everyone has experienced at least one time during their life. A time in my own life when I was enlightened was in elementry school when i learned about ancient Egypt and their culture. I learned all about the Inventions the created, and how they made things we still use today. It got me interested in history and it showed me how very different life was 4000 years ago.
For my summer reading book I read Maus, in the book, the main character becomes enlightened to the events of the holocaust from his fathers stories. He learns of the horrors his father faced during the war and how he lived in the Concentration Camp. It taught him about his heritage and what his people have suffered through and what people will do to survive.
Anthony Dimuzio
ReplyDeleteOne time when I was enlightened was when I learned how hot dogs where made. My teacher told my class that hot dogs were not made with just meat and that they have grinded up fat and skin and other things in them. I did not believe that he was telling the truth. A while after that I watched a video on how hot dogs where made and realized that my teacher was telling the truth about all the bad stuff in hot dogs and how they were made.
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout are enlightened that Boo Radley is not the bad guy they think he is. In the beginning and through the middle of the book Jem and Scout think that Boo Radley is a scary bad guy and he wants to hurt them. At the end of the book Boo Radley saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell and they are enlightened that Boo Radley is a good guy and does not want to hurt them.
Sean Curtis-
ReplyDelete1. When I was a little kid, I thought that the Tooth Fairy was real. It was not until one day a friend at school told everyone that they saw their Mom put money under their bed after they lost a tooth. I didn't want to believe it because I always thought that there was a Tooth Fairy and it made me start to question was this story real. It was not until I woke up one the night to my Dad putting money under my bed that made me realize that it was not real.
2. In the book the Giver, a boy named Jonas realizes something that he never believed could be real. When he meets the Giver Jonas learns quickly that his community has lied to him about the way they treat their people. At first Jonas does not believe it but later realizes that it was all true.
Dowol Lee-
ReplyDeleteOne time when I was enlightened was when I realized that the Elf in the Shelf was not real. I was in 3rd grade. I had gotten it a month before Christmas. My parents told me that it would be watching me and be reporting to Santa everyday until the 25th came. It had little beady eyes that looked inside you. It always followed me and showed up randomly in different places. It never blinked and sat there leaning on something. I always read the book and memorized the story. Santa had sent him from the North Pole to make sure I deserved presents. I quickly realized it was all fake, because i picked it up and hid it from my parents. It never showed up again.
This summer I read Ready Player One. One time when he was enlightened was when he first found out about the OASIS. A virtual place, where anything is possible. The main character, Wade Watts, first found out about it, at school. He hated his school life. So when he saw that there was a way he could go to school in a different way, he took it right away. He was amazed at the possibilities beyond the school system, and was immediately addicted to it.
Michael DiCenzo-
ReplyDeleteOne time when I was enlightened was when I found out that santa wasn't real. I was in 4th grade when my friend told me that Santa wasn't real and it was your parents who put the gifts under the tree. I kinda believe my friend because when my parents and I went to the mall there was always a Santa you could take pictures with and I was kinda suspicious of that because he's supposed to live in the North pole. So I asked my parents about if he was real and they told me he wasn't real. So I had a hard time keeping that secret and I told my younger cousin that he wasn't real and like in the cave story he didn't believe me.
The book I read this summer was Ready Player One. I felt that the main character was enlightened at the beginning of the book because he saw the “OASIS” as this great thing where everyone could be together and be connected and there was unlimited resources. But at the end of the book he felt that it wasn't as great as he thought it was. The main character decides to give up on the “OASIS” and never gone on it again.
Olivia Dionisio
ReplyDeleteOne personal experience where i have experienced liberation from the cave was when i found out that the tooth fairy was fake. I was outside with my brother and some family friends and my brother was on a tree swing and fell off on his head and his tooth fell out. My friend Riley and I couldn't find the tooth so my step mom just gave us money and told us to tell him that the tooth fairy gave it to her cause there was no tooth.
A character that went through the same stages is Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird. She was enlightened when she discovered that Tom Robinson was only being convicted as guilty because of his race and not the evidence.
Jacob Moore
ReplyDeleteMy personal experience for being enlightened was when I was eight years old and I had no clue or suspicion that santa or any of the made up holiday people were fake. But the day after easter my brother had found a bag of candy that had all the same things that had got put inside our easter baskets. After we had figured out that the easter bunny isn't real we interrogated our parents about santa and everyone else and that's when they told us that none of the holiday mascots were real. After that I kindof wondered what elese adults were keeping hidden from us.
I chose Ready Player One as my summer reading book and the main character Wade Watts is actually a really good example of enlightenment. Wade grew up living in a place with drug usage,crime and other things everywhere but he was all conceald from it at a young age because of a virtual reality system that basically took you into a new life. But as Wade got older he realalized what was going on around him and how horrible things really were but eventually he was able to get over it.
Jacqui
ReplyDeleteA personal experience I had that was similar to the prisoner coming out of the cave was when I found out I was moving. At first I was in denial, even though I wanted to move, I didn’t believe I would be leaving my hometown of 9 years. I had moved before when I was three but I only remember specific moments. After a while everything started to make sense and I understood it was true. I was really happy and love my new town.
A character going through a similar simulation of the allegory of the cave is Jem realizing how to be different than the rest of his racist and prejudice town. He disagrees with most of his sisters, Scout, opinions and starts making opinions of his own. He takes after his father Atticus by his peaceful and equal ways. Throughout the book you watch Jem change and discover his own ways.
Robbie Mahlebjian -
ReplyDeleteAn experience that I had when I was enlightened was when I figured out that there was a genocide against my people (Armenian). As soon as I knew this I started looking up this topic and learning new things about it. I was in the cave thinking “ok I’m Armenian I don’t care” but when I found out about this I was liberated and free.
The summer reading book I read was Maus. It is about Art Spiegelman's father telling the story about how his father survived Auschwitz. In the story there is a lot of tragedy like the father’s first born child getting mercy killed by his caretaker, and his wife killing herself because the tragedy she has been through. In the story at first Vladek (the father) is seeing all these nazi flags going up but he thinks nothing of it. This is when Vladek is in the cave not seeing the bigger picture but further along the story he quickly gets enlightened that the nazi’s are taking jews into camps and making them work then killing them in horrible ways.
Jillian Boyer
ReplyDeleteThe most important time that I went through the stages of enlightenment in my life is when I found out we were moving to Andover. I started in the cave, as a prisoner, believing that I would stay in Littleton forever. My parents were the ones making my shadows, as they did not want to tell me we were moving until the end of my school year. When I first stepped out of the cave, my parents became the enlightened people and tried to explain to me the truth. The truth was, we were moving. At first, I did not react well, the same way the prisoner did not believe the enlightened man. But after I spent much time running the idea through my mind, I started to think about how life would be like in Andover. After a few days, I decided it was time that I should tell my friends, and my my last goodbyes. This was obviously met with negative reactions from my friends just like when the prisoner went back to his friends who were still in the cave.
For summer reading, I read Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. In this book, one of the characters, named Dante, is someone who thinks doing things like drinking and smoking are really cool. This can be seen as when he is in the cave, a prisoner to the opinion that he has received from the ‘cool’ kids at his school. Later in the book, he moves out of state and he tries all the things he never had the option to do before. Through letters he sends back home, you can see that he ends up disappointed in himself for doing these things. That is his enlightenment, he finds out after he tries these things that they are not for him at all.
Griffin Littlewood,
ReplyDeleteI was enlightened when I found out Santa wasn’t real. It started off in first grade when I was in gym class my friend T.J who now lives in Texas was trying to convince me that Santa wasn’t real and I denied it as every kid would. I then go home and contemplate about what he said earlier. I ask my teammates at hockey practice later that day and most of my team said yes then some said no. Before I go to bed I hung out with my Dad. Then, when i went to bed my Dad came in to say goodnight. I then ask the question if Santa is real my Dad said no. I was in shock I was enlightened and that’s my moment of enlightenment.
I read Unbroken it was about an olympic athlete and veteran Louis Zamperini. This is about his journey as a soldier in the US military and is incredible survival story. So one day Louis was flying in a Deathtrap Plane they were called that because they were incredibly unsafe. His crew was assigned a normal normal mission but then an engine failed causing a crash into the water. Louis was one of the only survivors. He was enlightened when one of the final men left died he was enlightened after he swore to god he would worship him for the rest of his life if he let Louie live and this was his moment of enlightenment when he ended up surviving.
Hanna Saad
ReplyDeleteIn “Ready Player One” Wade Owen Watts aka Parzival had a time of enlightenment. When he completed the perfect game of pacman he got a token that he did not know the meaning of. Then while trying to open up the crystal gate everyone died except him and a few sixers that were outside the range of the cataclyst. Wade was in the blast zone but he survived since the token he achieved at the arcade which gave him an extra life, then after he realized what happened he completed his quest.
My moment of enlightenment is when I learned that Christopher Columbus was not the great sailor who found America and made peace with natives in the New World. When I was enlightened I refused to agree with that statement but then realized that was the truth. Then after a while I accepted that as the truth.
Xingyun Pan
ReplyDeletePlato’s “Allegory of a cave”
1) Discuss a personal experience where you experienced liberation from the cave.
When I was small, I thought that the moon is made out of silver. A chinese theory says that a goddess steal the magical medicine and flew to the moon. She found out that the moon is made out of silver and she made a palace of those silver called”Guanghan Palace”.She live in the palace and a lot of rabbits on the moon and repent of her mistake. After I grew up and learn about moon in our science class. I found out that the moon is made out of mud and dusk. There are no palace,silver or rabbits on the moon, not even a creature. I just can’t believe it at first, I think they made the film up. But later I found that is the truth. When I am trying to tell those things to the smaller kids,they just can’t handle it and one even started to cry.
2) Describe a character who went through the stages using one of the summer reading selections.
I actually did not read any book in this Summer. We are too busy to move to America. But I had read a book before. The character in the book is too tired of the homework and teachers just can’t wait to grow up, he tried a lot of ways to made himself looks like a adult. After he tried out “the life of a adult”, he founds out that adults life is way more harder than a children’s life.But he just can’t explain to his friends why is it better to be a student. His friends didn’t experienced those things and can’t feel what he’s feeling.
Celia Hoffman
ReplyDeleteCelia Hoffman
I think growing up is an enlightenment. While you’re young, you're a prisoner of your own ignorance. Beliefs like Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are your shadows. When you're enlightened you’re in disbelief at first but then you quickly realize the new reality. You try to tell your community of peers and they are in disbelief of your new knowledge because they have not yet been enlightened.
Offered from the Handmaid’s Tale faced a situation where she had to re-enter the cave when she had already been enlightened. After an enlightened life, Offered and all other woman were suppressed by the new government. She slowly realized she had to accept her new life of being a prisoner.
Suhani Karki
ReplyDeleteA personal experience where I experienced enlightenment is when I found out I was moving countries. I was raised in one country my whole life, and I knew very little about others surrounding it. Just like the men in the story who were chained to see the shadows in front of them their whole life. When I moved, it was very challenging to fully adapt to the new US environment that I knew nothing about, rather than the country I was raised 12 years in. Just as when the man "Plato's Allegory of the Cave" walks out of the cave and suffers pain, and the sun's glare disturbs him. But a few months after I moved, I gained more knowledge, and I felt like sharing my experience with other people that have also just moved. Just as the man in the story grows accustomed to the sight of the upper world, I slowly got accustomed to the new country that I can now call my home.
In Ready Player One the main characters name is Wade. Most of Wades friends are all virtual, and he has never seen them in real life, only on the OASIS gaming screen. Just like the men in the story who had been chained up to the wall to look at the shadows of puppets. On the other side of the OASIS, are other people controlling their avatars, like the men controlling the puppets in "Plato's Allegory of the Cave." Soon after Wade meets the people behind the screen in real life, he finds out that they aren’t all who they say to be. In the end, he gets accustomed to the people in real life with the avatars in the game just as the man in the story get accustomed to the sight of the upper world.
Nick Entner,
ReplyDelete1. A personal experience of mine that I felt liberation from a cave is when I first got my phone because I realized what it is like to be able to communicate over long distances. I felt like I could find and do anything I wanted. A phone now a days is a very big recourse. I then I found out why everyone loves phone so much. When you don’t have a phone you don't know what it is like to have the whole world at your fingertips.
2. In the book “Ready Player one” Wade Watts experiences liberation from the cave when he finds how to get the first key it the cave. He was thrilled to get this clue when he found out. Everyone was stuck on the clue. Then when he found out it was on the planet Ludos. Once he was Able to find it the character when over a great change in feeling better about himself. This also made the contest interesting again.
Yasmiin Ali,
ReplyDeleteWhen I got my first iPhone I obviously was curious in the media. I started seeing the news and the gossip about different celebrities. However, when I go to the tragic and sad parts in the media I realized the world is not as happy as it seems to be. When I was young I thought that the world was a happy, genuine, okay place, and to be honest I never really thought about what might be going on outside my hometown. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners only see shadows and what's in front of them up until they’re let out into the real world. I wasn't let out into the real world till I was told what was true and what was fake.
Ready Player One:
Wade Walter is the protagonist in Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Wade lives in a virtual world. Wade knows what happens outside the screen but not as much as he thought he did. When Wade was the first to find the first key that opens the first gate. He didn't think that people would try to kill him. Wade knew that the government and the OASIS had information of him like where he lives and what his real name and birthplace. However, he didn't think that that was going to be used against him in a way that would kill a lot of people. Once the OASIS leader wanted Wade to help them win the scavenger hunt, Wade knew something was up. He realized that what he saw on the screen was not true. The OASIS before Halliday was told to be a perfect system and will never do harm. The OASIS now without Halliday find people and kills them before they have a chance to find the golden egg. Wade's perspective of The OASIS changed as he tried to find the golden egg against them. Just like how in Plato's Allegory of the Cave when the prisoner realized what he saw on the walls were shadows and not real. Wade started to understand what was real and what was fake.
Shruthi Saravanan
ReplyDeleteTimes, where I felt enlightened, was realized how big and small things in life were. I learned that outer space is huge and it’s filled with so many unsolved mysteries and that we didn’t even know exactly how long the universe and that it could go on infinitely. I also found out that there things as small as cells and even atoms which we’ve never actually seen before and we assume how it looks like with some scientific information because we haven’t invented a microscope advance enough to see them.
This summer I read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. In the book, the character Ari (Aristotle) thinks that only finding the truth of big secrets like about the universe are the types of secrets that matter and that might affect him and others. Then eventually he gets enlightened by Dante who shows Ari that people who matter to us in life are like the universe and finding out who they are and all the secrets they hold is a bigger thing than finding the truth of the universe itself.
Dylan Brenner
ReplyDeleteOne time when I was enlightened was when I found out that the Tooth Fairy wasn’t real. I always thought it was real until my sister told me that my mom was putting money under my pillow and writing me notes. I never wanted to know that the tooth fairy was fake because I always thought it was real. One day I decided to look at the note a little closer and there I noticed that the handwriting looked exactly liked my moms. Later, I found out that the tooth fairy was actually my mom.
In the book To Kill A Mockingbird Jem and Scout were enlightened when they found out that Boo Radley was a nice guy not a bad guy. All the way through the beginning and middle of the book both Jem and Scout thought that Boo Radley was a bad guy and was trying to hurt them. It turns out that at the end of the book he was the one that saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell.
Evan Lin
ReplyDeleteOne time I experienced enlightenment was when I realized the Tooth Fairy isn't real. When I lost a tooth in 1st grade, I told my friends about it, and they told me to put it under my pillow so the tooth fairy could give me money. That night I put the tooth under the pillow, and the next morning, the tooth was still there, and there was no money.
In The Giver, Jonas becomes enlightened when he experiences colors and feelings. Before he only saw everything in black and white. He also sees what "release" actually is.
A time of enlightenment in my life would be when someone showed me how to correctly do a math equation.
ReplyDeleteIn the Book (I’d prefer to go with the movie) Ready Player One, Wade undergoes challenges to earn 3 keys. When Wade goes to watch the videos of the developers before the Oasis was made, he realizes quite a few things about the developers
myalee r.
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