Kody Bell, War of the Worlds, Period 3, Post 3
“It is just, O God!” he would say, over and over again. “It is just. on me and mine be the punishment laid. We have sinned, we have fallen short. There was poverty, sorrow; the poor were trodden in the dust, and I held my peace. I preached acceptable folly-my God, what folly!-when I should have stood up, though I died for it, and call upon them to repent-repent!. . . Oppressors of the poor and the needy . . . ! The wine press of God.” (page 161)
While I was reading through this section of the story I found this quote and i thought, “This man has accepted his fate and is willing to die. At first I thought, why? Why would you want to give up when you had lived literally 10 yards from the Martians’ camp for days and now your just going to give up. Why? Then I thought about it for a little while and I thought’ Maybe he has nothing to go back to when this is over. Maybe he feels he has no purpose to live.” But why would you go this long and just decide that it is over.
If you would have been in this same position would you have done the same thing? If not what would you have done and why?
Category: Per 3 WotW Illum 5 comments »
March 1st, 2009 at 8:47 pm
This is a really good question Kody! I am really impressed.
I am always looking at the glass as half full. I am a very confident person, if you havent already noticed. If there is a challenge I do everything that i possibly can to achieve it and then do more, just to make sure that I fully accomplished. “If life gives me lemons I turn them into strawberry lemonade.” So to answer your question, no, there wouldn’t have even been the question in my mind of giving up.
Abbey Stefanides
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Thank you Abbey for feeling that this was a good question and i have to agree with you that there is no reason to ever just think your life is over.
Kody
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
The reason the curate was so hopeless is that he feels God has left him. He thinks that he is going to die no matter what he does because it is “God’s will”. So put yourself in his shoes. If you felt that you were going to die and it was out of your control completely, would you want it to be long and drawn out, or would you want it to end quickly? That is why the curate gave up like he did.
Personally, i would not have given up on my life in this situation or any. I am just offering a different perspective.
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Ditz ^
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:40 pm
I think I would not want to die. You may have a point, Kody, that the curate has nothing to go back to if he lives. If I were in that position, I think I would view this ordeal as a life changing one. If I survived, I would take my survival as a second chance at life; to be able to live it out to the fullest. I like Abbey’s ’strawberry lemonade’ quote and I agree with it. Look on the bright side of things and make it even better.
-Paula