Reading this allegory enabled me to reflect. Of course, while reading all of our texts, there has been some critical thinking involved in each. I enjoyed reading it. Plato causes you to think critically because of being interested and not because of being asked too. I enjoyed his views on how being enlightened can have pros and cons. I liked the picture I got to mind when he portrayed would it would be like to be enlightened and to go back to where one came from and from being in darkness and experiencing light.
It seems that when you have been naive, whether it be in certain areas of your life or because of being sheltered, and you are introduced to the light of knowledge and truth, that things would become better and clearer. Sometimes, I believe Plato was inferring, that you can lose sight of the value of being enlightened and mistake it for being better than someone else or rather, the people that are in the position you were once in.
He brings up politics , as he was very involved in this area during his time, and he goes off on the limb with the bold statement to say that the enlightened are the leaders. That statement holds a lot of truth. But even those politicians lose sight to the problems that once hindered them.
While it seems confusing, Plato made a lot of points that have to do with today's society.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Buffalo Gals
Buffalo Gals challenged me to think beyond what I was reading. I had to think about who coyote was and what she represented. Humans and animals are very alike in many ways. This story showed that animals have lives and families just like humans do. It showed how they helped and loved each other. They have emotions and struggles like humans have. The story really showed these similarities.
By the end of the story, the little girl was able to see the animal world and the human world as the same. She learned to give respect to living things. Unfortunately, she was also able to see the evil in the world when coyote was killed. She didn’t want to go back to world she came from where humans were all that mattered. She had been enlightened and inspired by her new life. The animals had taken her in and became her friends and family. She had suffered so much already, why would they make her go back?
I think the story was very good although a little strange. It was meant to make us think and to look at the situation with an open mind. Talking, fully dressed animals don’t really exist but the point was to show the reader a new world. The child was able to accept, fit in, and eventually love this world. It showed that if you are open-minded, new worlds may be possible to find.
By the end of the story, the little girl was able to see the animal world and the human world as the same. She learned to give respect to living things. Unfortunately, she was also able to see the evil in the world when coyote was killed. She didn’t want to go back to world she came from where humans were all that mattered. She had been enlightened and inspired by her new life. The animals had taken her in and became her friends and family. She had suffered so much already, why would they make her go back?
I think the story was very good although a little strange. It was meant to make us think and to look at the situation with an open mind. Talking, fully dressed animals don’t really exist but the point was to show the reader a new world. The child was able to accept, fit in, and eventually love this world. It showed that if you are open-minded, new worlds may be possible to find.
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