Bumping Into Mr Ravioli Analysis

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First of all, parenting has many different methods, but sometimes things can be separated out of one’s hand and it can lead to unexplainable situations. In “Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli”, Gopnik in a sense is separated from his daughter Olivia because of the lifestyle he lives in New York City. If he were to be able to escape the busyness “bubble” and pay attention towards his daughter maybe she would not feel that way at all. According to the text, “Busyness is our art form, our civic ritual, our way of being us” (Gopnik, 160). This shows how the system of being busy all the time has blocked the other important events in one’s life like parenting and seem to care for one particular goal that busyness has caused. It is important to have a balance

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