Winny Chan PD 2 Blog #1 - 9/13/19

Hi all,

My name is Winny Chan from 2nd period Modern Mythology class and today we learned that some people can easily rationalize saving one person and leaving the other to die while some people couldn't choose between which person to save. I know for me specifically I couldn't really decide between which one of my parents I would save because both are equally important to me. Towards the end of the class, we had a particularly deep conversation about what people consider good and bad. I'll use what I learned when I ever need to save someone and I feel bad for not being able to that.

Now onto the lesson.

Aim: How does The Road ask its readers to explore the extremes of violence and compassion?

Do now: Write down the names of the two most important people in your life? My Mom and Dad

How do you rationalize?

You are in a circumstance where you can only save one of the two people you wrote down. They are both begging for their lives; sacrificing yourself so they both can live is not an option, neither is sacrificing both.

What do you do?

See I can't really choose between my parents because both have great qualities.

Exploring the Boy’s Compassion

We are encountered with several circumstances where the boy shows unyielding compassion: the man struck by lightning, the dog, the other boy.

What are we supposed to understand about the boy’s compassion?

The boy has youthful naive innocence because he doesn’t know about the way things have changed and how there are bad people in the world and if he shares his things then he won’t have enough to stay alive.

*Mrs. Fusaro has an interesting morning routine, but that is a story for another day.*

Violence… it gets pretty ugly out there

“Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplement consort of catamites illclothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each” (92)

A view of an apocalyptic future, but how is it compared to now?

We had a deep, deep discussion of whether or not you would help someone who had made a bad decision and whether or not that makes you a bad or good person.

Some would not save a person who had clearly made a bad choice because once they were saved they would go and do the same bad choice again. 

Some would save the person because that scare from the bad choices would maybe scare them enough to stop them from doing it again.

For example, if someone overdosed and someone saved them, they would go and have another overdose. But someone who maybe eats 10 cheeseburgers a day and gets a heart attack and gets saved, they might come to the realization that this really isn't healthy and they shouldn't do that anymore.

That is the end of the lesson and hopefully, you learned something today.

Bye and see y'all next time.