JOHNNY POINT YOUR GUN

At the end of the novel, Joe realizes that the reason the doctors have sedated him with the dope is because they don't want to help him. They don't care if they can communicate with him or that he's truly amazing because they are more concerned with their wars. They believe if Joe is allowed to make contact in the world with other people, then they would know the true horrors of war. His testimony would touch others and make them question their curiosity of why this man is this way, and is this really the conscience of war. Of course they government and all the promoters and drafters of war wouldn't like that, and they would begin to refuse to go to war. And of course you need a lot of men to go to war. I think that at the end of the novel Joe also points out that the human race is a peaceful race and they want to live. But they will take up arms and "point the gun" if they have to. But it won't be for a silly war that all the promoters and drafters had made them be involved in before, but a war against those who are doing the promoting and drafting. They will do this because they want to maintain life and peace and they will go to any cost because they will always fight for life.

Yes, I agree with Joe's desires. When he goes on the rant at the end of the book about how he wants to tell the church, school children, working men, women in schools, and the men in congress about himself and what he's been through, if i was in the same position, I would want the same thing too. Like i've said in previous blogs, Joe is like amazing and I would have already gone crazy. I wouldn't be able to be absolutely alone in the world that long without any source of communication, and not go crazy. I agree with Joe's desire when he says that he doesn't even have to tell people about what he's been through and showcase himself, but that he just wants the comfort of knowing he doesn't have to be alone the rest of his life, locked up in his own body, and being denied the right to keep in touch with other people and be able to feel actual sunshine on the small amount of skin he has. If I was in a similar situation, of course, without a doubt in my mind would i want the comforts of people around. I would ever want to be by myself for that long. I can't really even imagine what it would be like to be in that situation because it's hard to imagine not being able to go without body parts and functions that I am so used to having.

Yey to Marrwage!

I think this example is very relevant to the subject f same sex marriage. When the Justices were trying to figure out what role marriage plays in a society, they examined the four attributes a marriage should have,and they figured that marriage can't be denied by the government because it's so important. I thank he uses this example rhetorically because after he explains the situation of the individuals who were denied the right to get married, he reveals that they were prisoners. But now or in that particular instance, prisoners are now allowed to marry. So then it raises the question well why can't homosexuals?" It's as if homosexuals ave been placed under the status of a criminal.What they are doing is so wrong that felons have more of a right to legal binding than they do.

No no To Marrwage!

In his metaphor about the two planes, Dr. Wade Horn is trying to make the reader understand how a child growing up in a single parent home compares to a child who grows up in a two parent home. The plane that reaches its destination safely, signifies how children growing up in a two parent home are more times than not, going to end up being successful. The other plane gets to it destination, but definitely less often than the other one. This signifies children who grow up in single parent homes that can turn out to be successful, but usually less often than a two parent household.

Bashing by Appearance

I feel like Vasquez discloses the sexual orientation of Mickey and Brian, after she explains what happened to them, for effect. When I was first reading their stories I was thinking "oh well they must have gotten beaten up by gaybashers because they were gay". No way am I saying that that was right for those people to do that, but I thought the bashers thought Mickey and Brian were gay because they saw stereotypical "gay" characteristics in the two men. But when Vasquez said that both men were attacked were straight I thought, "whoa, wait a minute". It just showed me that people stereotype things as gay or lesbian characteristics, and if people deviate from any of the "normal" perceived characteristics that a man or woman should have, then they are placed under a label. Anyone, no matter of sexual orientation, can be hurt by these false perceptions.

Lessons Learned

Do all your chores before you do anything with your friends;don't put perfume or anything with perfume on your skin, because you know you breakout; Don't ever stay in an abusive relationship; don't ever let a man hit you; stand up for what you believe in, you need to wear a dress to church;"But I want to wear my basketball shorts and t-shirt"; I don't care, you need to look like a little girl; fix your hair and put lipgloss on when you go out; when you go to an even that's not very important you don't have to worry about looking nice; don't let little boys feel up on you, if one does, have the backbone to say stop; don't be alone with a boy in his room; "But he's just my friend, I don't like him"; it doesn't matter, he's still a boy and they only have one thing on their minds;make sure you wash everyday; make sure you eat green vegetables, because those are the best for you; you don't need to date, but you need to court; "But I'm almost 18 years old"; it doens't matter; you shouldn't drink; you shouldn't drink and drive; you shouldn't go to parties where there's drinking; you should go to parties where there's provocative dancing and all those girls are grinding up all in those boys' crotches; go to church.

Frontiersmen!

Obviously, Elizabeth Gilbert thinks Eustace Conway is the last American man because he lives in the woods. duh. But what else makes him the last American man you may wonder? Well Gilbert says that Eustace is not only living in nature, but he's also one with it. He thinks, breathes, and has kind of become nature. His ideals are mostly centered around nature and how to survive as the men who lived so long ago in this country when it was new, fresh, and untouched. Eustace is by no means a moder man in the sense that he has not become European. He is totally self sufficient if he wants to be, he has the capability to make, fix, or do anything from his hands, and he gets mostly everything he needs from nature itself. He is not dependant on electronics to get things done, he believes in hard, honest work, and hasn't grased onto the notion that women aren't always going to be submissive. He is still thinking in circles, not in boxes. Eustace doesn't have the sentimental value that a lot of people have now a days, becuse he is still like those first settlers who did anything, and everything that it took to survive. No matter how grotesque or unpleasant, Eustace Conway got what needed to be done regardless. He isn't weak.