Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 252 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Killing vs Waiting to die
The importance of this topic is irrelevant, it's up for debate or debating purposes. As much as I liked the intriguing, intricate outer works, and dynamics of the film production processes we went over as well as the other happenings, something else caught my interest in our first class session. What leads to my inquiry, "Which would you rather or prefer? Having to kill people or having to wait to be killed?" is our Professor mentioning super heroes got me to think about the fairly new movie Batman vs Superman. I thought about Superman telling Lois, 'no one stays good in this world', before he goes off to kill the monster. In that I thought about what it would take to kill someone. Then I thought about Superman's death in the movie and how it would be to know all along when ones day of reckoning leading to death would come. I linked the two and by debating which can be worse, I debated which is worse and came to a conclusion that killing people is easier than the other. Observing and making connections can lead to refinements and/or broaden perceptions. Knowing how certain functions work really didn't interest me much before our first class session and although I may try to put forth the effort, going forward I think that it won't. Maybe I'll go through some changes and change up a bit.
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Hm.... Is "killing people" the same as "kill[ing] the monster"? Let's be exact in our wording to avoid misunderstandings, etc.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think dying would permit someone's authenticity. When I think about it "Your nobody until someone kills you" comes to mind. Superman isn't a self-proclaimed God. God's aren't known for dying much. Killing people has it's own complexities where exactness would belittle my input although I did catch on possibly to what may have been left out of the set of parameters. I'm bludgeoning advices to be thoroughly expressed. Waiting to be killed is Superman.
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