Existensiella frågor, Religion

1. Varför är vi här? Är meningen given eller måste vi finna den själva? Eller finns det ingen mening alls med livet? Jag tror absolut att det finns en mening i livet och varje människa måste själv ta reda på vad just du vill göra här i livet. Ingen föds till att bli bättre än någon annan, alla har lika stor chans att bli vad man vill. Dock kan man känna sig kapabel till olika saker och man föds med olika talanger, personlighet och gåvor. Det är bara du som kan bestämma över dig själv, man kan aldrig äga någon annan. Visst att man kan få hjälp av vänner, familj, lärare osv som kan hjälpa dig en bit på vägen och även fast familj och vänner alltid finns där och ställer upp för dig så är du i slutändan själv och det är bara du som bestämmer hur långt du tar dig i livet.

2. Varifrån kommer vi och världen? Är vi här av en slump eller finns det tex något/någon som ligger bakom? Jag tror delvis på bigbang, jag tror att för x antal miljoner år sedan uppkom världen på något sätt och sen dess har naturen själv "uppfunnit" jorden. Jag tror ockspå Gud på ett sätt, fast kanske inte som många andra tror på det. Det kan absolut vara skönt för de som tror på Gud att kunna prata och be "honom" om råd och förlåtelse men enligt mig så, som jag skrev i första svaret, kan du inte lita på att någon annan ska klara livet åt dig, man kan inte göra dumma saker och sen gå och bikta sig tex. 

3. Vart tar vi vägen efter döden? Jag tror på reinkarnation, jag tror på att man har flera liv efter detta och "återföds" till något annat. Jag tror absolut inte att allt är slut, mörkt och tyst efter att man dör, någonting händer. 

Book Review

The Hunger Games book review

1. Find one conflict in the novel. How does it play out?
In the beginning of the book, Katniss gets in to a huge problem and she have to make probably the biggest decision in her life.
First you should know that this book takes place in the future. Every year twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the hunger games. They’re stuck in a big area and the only rule in this game is to kill or be killed. Therefore, of twenty-four people only one comes out alive.
A few days before the games begins the queen travel around the country and have a lottery in every district that’s decide who’s going to the game. This year when the lottery takes place, Katniss and her family gets in a big chock. It’s Katniss little sister Primrose name that shows up.
In this lottery there is no free options, if you’re name is on the little white paper then you have to participate in the Hunger games. But you have one change to get out of it and that’s if someone are willing to take your place. For about 10 seconds Katniss have to decide if she let her little sister to the game or if she’s willing to offer her own life for Primrose. In this case, Katniss freaks out and steps forward to take her sisters place.  

This is one of many problems in this book. Katniss has been close to death before and for her, survival is second nature. Even dough she does think she’s going to die, she will do this for her family.

2. Choose five sentences from different parts of the book that you find important. Write them out and explain why you think they are important. ‘’Katniss, the girl who was on fire’’ I think this sentence is important for the book because that’s almost why Katniss wins the game in the end. In the beginning of the games, she get up dressed in a dress made of fire, which get her all the attention and many people want to see her get out alive. 

“You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.” I remember this sentence because it made me think. Think what she really wanted to say with these words. I think what’s really means is that Katniss isn’t a brutal murderer. She got in to this game because she protected her sister and she will do whatever to stay alive. But in this scene of the book, she has to either kill the boy who’s live in the same town as she do and also he is totally in love with her. She isn’t going to let this boy to die because if she do, well maybe she survive the game but for the rest of the life she’s going to see herself as the one who killed the boy who’s in love with her.

“We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.” I choose this sentence because I think almost everyone have had this thought sometime in his or her life. Just leave everything behind, run away and start a new life.  And in this case, if Katniss would have done this, she’ll never would have gone to the Hunger games, but on the other side her little sister would. And she hadn’t had the change to stop it.

“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.” This is a sentence that’s been saying right after Katniss meets this boy, Peeta, from her own district and both of them decides to work together inside the area. I think this is very important for the book because without their cooperation, they will never survive this thing.

“We had to save you because you're the mocking jay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.” This last sentence I have to write down because this is the scene when Katniss wins over all king and queens. Every year there is just one person who scurvies the Hunger games. But this year, Katniss were able to get both her and her friend Peeta out of the area alive. Because of some poisoned berries, she tricked the whole community and made the ’’boss’’ let both of the out, because otherwise, no one would get out.

3. What is the message of the book?

It’s quiet a hard question to answer about this book because there really isn’t a clear message. Not all books have secret message like that. But I think that the message of the hunger games, not necessarily the whole book but just the games themselves is all about war. The main thought about this games were that the big rebellion that the districts had against each other would disappear by taking their children once a year and make them kill each other. But as you can hear, this sounds really like a bad thing to do so of course this just lead an even bigger war (witch you can see in the following books). And also you keep thinking through the book how the government is able to do this. Just go around the country, pick up children and young boys and girls and force them to either kill or get killed, while they’re on live TV. That’s just disturbed. And maybe you can see this in the real world in some countries where to government have to much power to do whatever they want. 

The Hunger games, is the best book a ever read and also the film is excellent, it’s a very good story and much entertainment. But when you think a little bit deeper and think about the actually message of the book you realize it’s totally sick, I mean what if this would be real? It would start a war.

Ghost World

1. Describe Enid, describe Rebecca. At the start of the story, why do you think they are friends? Why does their friendship deteriorate throughout the film? How have they both changed by the end of the story? 

Enid and Rebecca are two 18-year old girls who has recently graduated high school. 

Enid is a very strange character in a way that is hard to describe. She´s cynical and bitter and she criticizing almost everyone the meets. 

Rebecca, seems to be more normal than Enid. She has a more mainstream personality and enjoy things that most teenager enjoys to do.  

I think Enid and Rebecca becomes friends in the first place because they both are a little bit strange, like outsiders. In the beginning of the movie you can see that they are very best friends and they seems to have a good friendship. But through the film you can see that Enid is actually mean to, not just to Rebecca, but almost everybody around her. She´s also very immature and doesn´t have any future plans, while Rebecca starts to build up an adult life after high school with a job, apartmant etc. In the end of the movie you can see that she has change from a high school student to someone that actually can take care of her self. She´s starting to grow up, wich you cannot say about Enid. Thats way i think their friendship ends. 

2. Seymour says, “It’s simple for everyone else- give ‘em a Big Mac and a pair of Nikes, and they’re happy. I can’t relate to 99% of humanity” Is Seymour right, or is he overly cynical? Have you ever felt the way he does?

I think he´s right in some way. Sometimes you can feel that everybody is just so stupid and doesn´t get anything. Some teenagers today just wants expensive things like the newest iphone and designer clothes and then they think life will be alright. But then I think many people realize that you need moore than things in life. You have to think of who you are and what you will do the rest of your life. In the way Seymour sees it I think he is a little over cynical because he is very bitter and doesn´t enjoy anything in life. Of course you should enjoy that nice new bag you bought and things like that but a think that everyone also need to think about what is really the important things in life?

6. Is Ghost world a comedy? How is this film different from comedies that you are accustomed to viewing?

I didn´t see this film as a directly comedy. Its not a comedy that I'm use to see, you know the ''i-lough-so-much-i-fall-of-the-chair'' comedy. But when I think about it afterwards, sure it was some scenes that I laught, but I also think that its i movie where you need to think, really think whats happening and it isn´t that obviously funny but if you really get the story I think it can be a funny story in some way. But I self doesnt think it was that hilarious.   

Life In The Underworld

I don't think that a book like this would be published today, its hard to believe that any publisher would read this kind of things and then just publish the book like it's nothing to worry about. After all that Jews been through with the world war two, its a very hard thing to call someone ''a jew'' over and over again and I understand that many people pay attention to it. Why not just call him by his name? What he's been doing through the story has nothing to do with he's being a jew.
If it would be published i don't think many people would have accepted this and it propably would be a big discussion and huge conflicts between people.

In the book, Fagin describes him in a certain way that i think is totally unnessesary. Today we live in a world were religion and ethnics shouldn't effect your living in any way. And in the book its not really that he call him a jew, its how he do it, a description like the one in the book would lead to huge discussions in the world today. It would be a question about racism.

However, descriptions about jews in this book aren't ok.