December First!

Wow. Just wow. This story is completely different than anything I have ever read before. I definitely was not expecting all the turns the story took either. I don’t really know what to think. I was trying to figure out the significance of the child in the room, and my mind kept on changing as the story progressed. At first I thought maybe it represented all that is bad in the world. We just try to tuck it all away, or sweep it under the table instead of really acknowledging that it is there. And then when the author said this:

“It is the existence of the child, and their knowledge of its existence, that makes possible the nobility of their architecture, the poignancy of their music, the profundity of their science.”

my mind changed again. It confuses me. I feel like I’m so close to what I’m trying to think, and yet I just can’t quite get it out. Does that make any sense? It kinda reminded me of the hope thing we briefly talked about earlier in the class. How there is really no point of hope if you never go through trying times. So like, there really is no bliss without the badness of life or pain. So that was another thought that ran through my mind.

Then what is going on with this town? I feel like they’re crazy! I mean, I guess I understand what he was trying to do. He was just trying to make us picture our own perfect world, right? Then.. BAM! the child comes into the mix. Then he talks about people just walking out of this perfect little town. But then they walk into something even better? How is that possible?

Obviously, it was a very different story than most. Or at least most that I have read. I am excited to hear what everyone else has to say about it tomorrow though. And after we discuss it, I will probably have more clarity on the whole thing.