I'm not really sure where I'm going with this. As I retrace the steps we've taken in class, I've been trying to recapture the emotions that I've felt in the characters that we've gotten to know over the past couple of months. What I'm sensing in this experience is a great deal of confusion amongst the stars of our stories. They're all searching for their ground, their own solid foundation.
It's the motivation of each of our main characters to erase uncertainty from their lives. The two best examples in this course are "Blankets" and "American Born Chinese." Born into the eye of a social storm of chaos, both main characters (Jin, and Craig) struggle to go against the current of their peers' influence to define themselves, rather than be defined by everyone else. I feel like this would provide an excellent opportunity to also incorporate American values and traditions as stated by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his work, "Self-Reliance." These characters may not get society all the time, but they are developing a good understanding of themselves. This internal relationship and it's vulnerability to the judgment of society is what I desire most to further explore this semseter.
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Everyone in society goes through this personal struggle. Everyone struggles to find themselves. Society is always telling people how to act and to look so it is very hard to go against societies beliefs.
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