I am writing blindly

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1. Growing up we all heard stories. Different types of stories, some so realistic, we cling onto them farther into our lives. Stories let us see and even feel the world in different prespectives, and this is becuase of the writter or story teller. We learn, survive and entertain our selves using past experiences, which are in present shared as stories. This is why Roger Rosenblatt said, "We are a narrative species." 2. The three incidents of people writing stories in terrible situations that Roger Rosenblatt shared are; JAL airliner going down in 1985, the last occupants of Warsaw Gettho, and Jean- Dominique Bauby finishing his autobiography after his stroke. One story I recieved from a terrible situation is my cousin's sucide note. Other situations that I could think of are if somone was lost in the wild, stuck on an unknow island, after discovering a government conspiracy they find them selves locked in a completely isolated prison, ancient egyptian time a king ordered his servant to be burried with them. 3. Roger Rosenblatt believes writing is freedom. Writing a sentence and never knowing what it will lead to, the reader reading each sentecne not knowing what will come next. It is an adventure for both the writer and reader. He also thinks we write to find god in every sentence but god always lives in the next snetence. This might mean that there is a smililarity between trying to find god in life and writing the next unknow sentence. This is because we might be looking for God now but God lives in few seconds into the future. The moment you stop living, searching, writing, the chance of finding God is lost. If living and freedom aren't the same thing, then I don't know what living is. 4. Growing up as parents, gaurdiants an... ... middle of paper ... ...uld not have chatted with my family and friends, I dont think I would have lasted for this long. I also like to draw, write songs and dance, all of which involve a type of storytelling. So writing and storytelling is my life. 8. Roger Rosenblatt in his last praragraph clearly explains what he means by saying, "I am writing blindly. Like everyone else." He explain that we don't really know why we bother to speak or share stories, besides the fact that we feel lonely. It also ties to how he thinks we write every sentence to find God but we never do. But if we never do find god, why bother wrtiting the next sentence or why bother saying the next story. So basically he is saying, humans don't know why they do anything besides the fact it gives comfort and pleasure. This applies to anything we do. Almost like we are forever seaching our own approval of our lives. Blindly.

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