Point of View

Posted: June 6, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Relationships are complicated. One day boys go from having cooties to being a thing of admiration. Why? Because all the sudden everyone has these wonderful things called hormones pulsing through their veins. Suddenly there is nothing you could want more then to get into someone’s pants.  No one’s thinking straight, so they can’t balance out the feelings and everything else that goes along with sex. People end up finding someone who attracts them and that attraction does last forever, leaving people in relationships that are strong enough to go the distance.

The couple in ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ (1927) by Ernest Hemingway are a perfect example of this. An American finds an attractive girl in Spain and they start a relationship with nothing really in common other than physical attraction. They have completely different views on the world, figuratively and literally. “The girl looked across at the hills on the dry side of the valley and the man looked at her and the table” (Hills Like White Elephants, pg. 213). How can an American city boy share the same morals and values as a country girl from Spain? They don’t, and Hemingway clearly implies that their relationship won’t last very much longer.

To have a solid, lasting relationship people need to be more than just physically attracted to one and another. You have to see the world in the same way. 

Brave New World

Posted: May 19, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Science answers questions and finds the truth. What if the truth wasn’t able to be found anymore, because it frankly was no longer needed? In Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ this is reality. Science took the world so far that it wasn’t need anymore. They developed foods that’s keep people healthier and drugs that keep them from feeling. Now, upon a second look, that isn’t very different then the world today. Manganese nuts to keep people from aging may have just been a creation of Huxley’s imagination but foods around today have been changed to help humans without the public understanding why. Fluoride added in water to prevent cavities, and iodine is added to salt to help prevent mental retardation. Very few people actually know this. As for drugs to stop overwhelming feelings, they already exist today. Drugs like alcohol and cocaine have side effects but in essence are the exact same as soma. Although Aldous Huxley may have made a few exaggerations, in many ways this is the brave new world.