1.Something I learned, which I more really took a new perspective to is the simplicity of the Boxcar Children and the box-man's life. At first I saw it under a negative light, but during and after the discussion it took a more positive tone. As he is simple and content while everyone else is buzzing around busy and unable to enjoy the simplicity of life.
2. I wish that we had actuallky discussed how the back round of the author matter to the story. The author said that she worked at a law firm for only two years before she became a full time writer. Law Offices are always filled with people doing every sort of imaginable task. However, the author herself chose to be in a more solitude environment by becoming a writer. Writers typically spend a lot of time with their pencil or computer drafting their essays or books. Sometimes they simply sit alone lost in their thoughts and emotions about their soon to be, or a work they would like to begin. Thus praising the Box-man for chosing his own solitude is an interesting choice since it seems to relate so much to her own life.
3. One question that i still have lingering in my mind is how the author creates so much about the box-man? As well as why was the femine example of solitude not homeless? Perhaps to emphasize how much she did not chose solitude, that she was simply forgotten by all of her friends and family.
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ReplyDeleteI felt the same when I first read the article. It was inconceivable to me how solitude could almost be pleasant. Though my perspective has changed a little, I still prefer people vs. desolation. I wish we would have discussed the background of the author too. Your interpretation of her two years spent at the law firm before she became a writer never occurred to me. I think the author creates so much about the box man through her regular examination of him, and her goal to convince the reader that one can be content in solitude. As for your question about the feminine example not being homeless, I have no idea, but I agree that it may be because she has family and friends who have forgotten her.
ReplyDeleteI think your points about the author's background and her own feelings on solitude are extremely insightful. Possibly her choice to be a writer is a less extreme version of the Box Man's chosen loneliness. For your question about the reason for the two women not being homeless, I'm not completely sure, but I think it may be to emphasize the fact that their condition is unchosen. While the Box Man could accept help yet refuses, the two women appear to be offered little escape from their solitude.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your wish that we had talked more about the authors background and how it influenced his story. Maybe the death of his brother hand a profound influence on this short story?
ReplyDeleteI believe your point concerning the author's background is spot on. I think being surrounded by lawyers who probably are very well off, at least materially, might have influenced her study on loneliness and simplicity of life.
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