1.There have been several instances of fear in "True Notebooks" and "Persepolis" at this point you should be more than half way done reading you text. Provide an example from the midpoint so your text that exempuities an instance of FEAR! Provide the page number and a brief description of this instance of fear.
2. Provide us with a detailed example your fears. How do they affect your life? Where do you think that fear comes from?
Be sure to answer both question or Dolly will kick your butt!!
Mr. Burkert is afraid to put the female inmates together with the male inmates. He believes that the male inmates will try hard to impress the female inmates. He thinks that it will be chaos all over if the female and male inmates are together and it will be hard to contain the situation. This is found on page 116-117.
ReplyDeleteI really don't have any fears. I've been able to overcome all of my fears. One fear that I have is my dreams not coming true. I've been working hard in music since I started in 2003. I've always had dreams of making it big and becoming known all around the world. I dedicate my life and heart to music. If I don't make it then it will feel like my life is over. It will be hard waking up each morning knowing that I failed. I believe that my fear comes from the fact that I've waited so long while all these other artists are making it and are living my dream. This fear just pushes me to work harder and become better. I've improved tremendously over the years. My fear will never make me lose faith in myself.
In "True Notebooks" on many of the inmates have fears and you can tell by their writing. Though many doestn come right off the top and explain their fear but through their writing you can tell by breaking down exactly what they are trying to say. On page 53 Fransico shares a fear. He says that he see the devil coming at full speed on one side and an angel coming at full speed on the other. They begin to fight eachother hoping to win but wen they run full speed into eachtoher they form into one which comes out to be him. With that i feel that fransico fear is his past and his present. He battles the good and the bad trying to win with no thought of who more powerful the good within him or the bad. Everyone has fears its part of life its that emotion that someday you might have to face. For me failure is my fear. I fear losing or not succeding in what i do. This also helps me but at the same time hold me back. It gives me motivation and inspire me to do my best. It helps keep me focused on the true prize which is sucess. Sadly this fear keeps me from trying certain things. By being scared to fail i sometimes dont even try because this fear tells me that I might not like the outcome. I missed out on some great opportunities beacuse of this. I would like to overcome this fear because failing isnt always a bad thing. It can help prepare you for the next time it prepares you and teaches by learning from your mistakes.
ReplyDeleteWhen kevin was about to go to the adult penitentiery,he caught instant fear. I fear, dying early and missing my son's life, losing my son, drugs, being nothing, getting fat, and being miserable. My fears affect everything I do in my life everyday because everyday I do or think things that'll prevent any of these things happening. My fear comes from seeing people in these situations that are unhappy, and I feel for them, so I tell myself I never want to be in any of those situations
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ReplyDelete"I fear that what I'm saying won't be heard till I'm gone.I fear that what I'm trying to do won't be felt until I'm gone."
Victor basically fears that everything he done in life won't be noticed until he dies. He doesn't want that only because he wants people to be able to understand and recognize what he has done. I believe lots of people don't want to be forgotten, then only remembered after they are dead. It doesn't really give them a chance to be noticed for all their hard work that they have done through out life itself. That is one of the fears I read about.
What i fear the most isn't dying only because I know it's bond to happen and it happens to everyone else in th world. (It's pure nature.) The thing I FEAR the most is BECOMING SOMETHING I'M NOT. It doesn't mean becoming a robot or an alien from a different planet. It means that I don't want to become someone else that I am not. I don't want to become the girl that has the worst reputation or known for the worst things anyone has done. I don't want to become the girl that is left alone without any one being there for me. I don't want to be left out in the streets to live without a home. I don't want to become any of that. I can't even think about waking up and having nothing but the person who I became that I'm not. It affects me just by staying who I am today and not changing myself. I really don't know where this fear comes from but it's what I fear the most.
When Tehran was bombed the Satrapi family had fear that they had lost their love ones. So after the bombing they got on their phones immediately to call and make sure that their family was okay, and not affected by the bombing.On page 104 is an example of the situation of the bombing. It shows the family making calls to other family making sure that everyone is alright. When i was younger i used to have a big fear with racoons. Ive gotten over that fear now. My latest fear is someone in my family dying. These fears can affect someones life. Fear can make someone paranoid, and make it hard for someone to move on to the next step in their life. I think fear comes from people thinking too much, people just really not liking something or someone, and people having a feeling that something bad is going to happen. Everyone has their own fears but the only way to get over them is to actually face your fears.
ReplyDeleteMark did not say but in so many words he was afraid of helping out the program. He was worried about a fatherless boy getting attacted to him, and the boys judging him because he's white, which is on page 25. My only fear is to fail, which is probably why i'm scared to succeed. I would hate to feel the feeling of success then out of nowhere I fail. It affects my life, because how can I be successful with the fear of failing. Thats stopping me from pursuing my dreams. I think that this fear comes from my elder family members. They all had dreams of becoming musicians or other things, but most of them regret, they use drugs, theyre doing other things. I cantbe like that.
ReplyDeleteOn page 138, (Persepolis) Marjane was out shopping with the mom her mother gave her, she wanted to go out so bad that day, as she was paying for her items, she heard a big boom! A man told her that the missile exploded in the Tavanir neighborhood, she ran out, forgot her items, and caught a taxi, when she arrived, she pulled up and said on her kept repeating to herself, let them be alive, let them be alive... Then she heard her mom say Marji, they both ran to each other, but she later came to find out that her friend Neda's house fell on her and her family...Examples of my fears are all insects, and being up very high. They affect my life because when I go to Cedar point, I can’t really enjoy it because almost everything consists of being high up and tossed around in the air. I think my fear comes from within, nothing specific, I just get the woozy head, and the nausea feeling, and the turned upside down stomach. It sometimes makes me mad, because when I’m at places like Disney, and cedar point, I try to get on the rides, but then regret it, because it ruins my whole trip, I prefer Disney over Cedar Point any day though...
ReplyDeleteWhat is fear? To be afraid to do something and almost be terrified of this. To avoid this cause you dont know how to approach this. Fear can stare youur right in the face at times and make you feel as little as a grain of dust. Fear is also something that can be dreamt up. For instance when you are a child. You probably was scared of the dark.This is FALSE EVIDENCE APEARING REAL. Which spells out FEAR. In the text there was an instance where fear was present. The family was terrified when the police had harrsased them in the car. This takes place on pg. 108,109 and 110. The family quickly ran upstairs to throw out all the things they weren't allowed to have. The were scared the officer would discover this and torture them. This whole episode of fear diesnt relate to me at all. I dont have physical fears I have one fear. This fear is that I wouldn't make my goals become relality. This affects my life in a positive way because I strive to work harder to accomplish my goals so my fear and I won't ever meet. This fear comes from my strive of making it. It's good to have fears though at times cause it can help make you work harder and think out carefully what you have and must do.
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ReplyDeleteOn page 133 of Persepolis, Marjane gets some gear from her family that they bought from a vactaion. She had on a pair of skinny jeans, "punk Nikes", her veil on incorrectly, and and pins of worldly people on her jacket. Two women from a women's branch come to her and tried to take her downtown to a committee. Usually when people go down there thet are beaten. She was so afraid she lied her way out of the situation. I can't relate to that but I can recall a time I was in fear when the police tried to arrest me. I didn't act scared but I sweating bullets inside. There were two police cars that pulled in front of the house next to mine but I knew they were coming for me because everyone knows the house is vacant. They crept up on me and said " What's up bro", you know, trying to relate to me. They immediatley started putting hand cuffs on me on my own porch. I said " did I do something", but they just rtook my wallet out of my pocket, interrogated me, and left. Running through the grass. My mama doesn't like that.
ReplyDeleteIn persepolis they feared when the Iranians attacked and everything started changing. There were people moving, riots in stores,`and women were getting beat for refusing to where the scarves. They were going through a very scary time especially when they started to run out of foods and gas.pgs.74-76 79-90
ReplyDeleteMy fears are of the future and how scary its seeming to me. It seems like the more we head to the future man is getting smarter and smarter with technology, but im scared of the fact that they will get out of control with their creations and reck a lot in this world that will lead to alot of deaths and alot of materials that will have this world unsecretive.
Page 132-134, Persepolis. Marjane had just bought a Kim Wilde and a Camel CD. She was on her way home when two guardians of the revolution stopped her to antagonize her. They found women who were outside of the line of a proper Muslim woman. They stopped Marjane and immediately started criticizing her "punk" shoes. Marjane insisted they were just sneakers but the guardians were persistent. Marjane had no choice but to lie and say she was on the school’s basketball team. She needed some way to play off wearing the sneakers. Of course they did not believe her. Marjane does not seem to be very good at lying. Then they started questioning her jean jacket. It was stamped with and emblem of Michael Jackson. The guardians claimed the emblem was a sign of decadence. Marjane was in fear they would take her to the committee. She claimed the person on the emblem was Malcolm X, leader of the black Muslims on America. The guardians went on calling her a whore because her scarf was not all the way down and that her jeans were too tight. They finally decided that they were going to take her in. She was absolutely unacceptable. Marjane knew that if she was detained that her parents did not have to be informed. She could be kept for days of endless torture. She was in fear of these awful things so she flipped. She started crying saying her mother had died and her stepmom was cruel to her. She said she would be burned with the iron and thrown in an orphanage. To Marjanes surprise the guardian let her go. Marjane was just relieved that they did not find her tapes.
ReplyDeleteMore than anything in the world I am in fear of myself. I do not know who I am or even what I am capable of. Not knowing yourself is as scary as it can get. It feels like your being followed by a creeper on the street who is breathing down your neck all the time. I try to ignore the fact that I do not know me. I try to focus more on finding out who I am and what I want to be so that this stranger will not be so terrifying to me. Until then he will keep following me. He will surprise me by doing things he has never done before. Some may be good and some may be bad. It will be a combination of both. This fear comes from me struggling with myself. I have trouble finding out why I do or feel certain things. I have been to occupied with other things lately to continue my quest to meet this stranger. Time solves everything. I guess I will just have to wait a while
Page 240 In Persepolis When after spending a few days alone in the street she starts getting sick with a very strong cough. It doesn't stop after a while and starts getting worse. Till one day she starts coughing up blood and soon after collapses in the street. Luckily, she collapsed during the day and is taken to a hospital. This is fear because she has no one to care for her, she's in a town she doesn't know too well, and being on the streets is plain scary when you have no one. Also the fact that she's spitting up blood wondering if she is going to die is a prime example of fear.
ReplyDeleteI have pretty general fears I hate heights but can fight past it if I really need to. I am deathly afraid of spiders to the point where it does interfere with my life. If I'm staying somewhere and know that there’s a spider in the area I will thoroughly check before sleeping in that room. If I don't know where they are or I'm thinking about them I will lose sleep. If I see a spider I will try to avoid it at all costs and if one crawls on me I will freak out like a little Nancy boy. I also have a small case of claustrophobia where I don't like being in enclosed spaces for long periods of time. Where these fears came from? The heights I have a fear of falling and sometimes I feel it’s too dangerous to be up that high. The spiders I have no idea I just hate them so freaking much I guess I was just born with it. The claustrophobia is just that I don't like being held down it makes me feel trapped and I hate that feeling.
There is an instance of fear for everyone in Persepolis. There was one instance for Marjane's mother Taji when her car broke down (pg74) she was threatened by two guys was insulted her because she was not wearing a veil. There was another instance of fear when the Iraqis bombed Tehran (pg80-81) and Marjane's father Ebi was worried that Taji would be upset about it when she was in the shower, she hadn't heard the news yet. Another instance when Marjane had went out to go shopping when she heard the news of a bomb being exploded in her neighborhood (pg 138-142) and it was on her street. She felt so weak because she had thought the worst had happened until she found her momma. Just to realize that her friend’s home had become destroyed and her friend was dead, there was no scream in the world that could relive her of her anger. There are many more than the three I have provided.
ReplyDeleteIn my life there have been instances of fear for me. I almost died from an asthma attack when I was 9. I black out for a long time and woke up to a machine breathing for me. My oxygen was low and my lungs wouldn't work properly. I looked over to see my momma crying, she thought I was in a coma. That was one of the scariest moments of my life. It affected my life tremendously I took my prevention meds everyday (at least for a year). My dad wasn't having this happen to me again so he put me in a tae kwon do classes (I made it to a high blue belt before I stopped for my school step team). I know this fear came from me loving life so much and it was my wakeup call telling me if I don't do something I could pass and not make my mark in life. So that’s why I changed for the better.
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ReplyDeleteIn my book true notebooks the inmates all have a times when they were afraid or in fear of something. One example in chapter 10 pgs 110-111 Patrick find out that’s he has been sentenced for life in jail, as a teenager I would be scared of not seeing nothing outside of the jail for the rest of my life.
ReplyDeleteMy fear would have to be being left alone. I hate being anywhere by myself it feels like I’m the only one left in the world. I try to call my friends to talk, but who wants to talk on the phone all day until someone get home? Not me. I feel lots of anxiety and anxiousness when I’m alone, and I feel like I can hear every little noise in my house. When I move out into my own house as an adult it will affect my life greatly because I won’t want to be home alone. I really don’t know where my fear comes from it’s just something I have, and something I have to deal with
The passage is in "true Notebooks" on pages 139-141. Nathaniel read his story called "The Life I Lived". One day he had ditched school and he was walking home. In order to get home he had to walk through "blood territory". He was a crip. While walking he noticed that a car had stopped and everyone stared at him. One of the bloods had gotten out of the car without him realizing it and hit him. He began running but one of the guys caught up with him. The man started beating him up but as soon as he heard sirens the man ran.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Nathaniel was scared. Of course while presenting his story he did not give off that vibe but anything could have happened. Instead of being beaten he could have been shot then there would be no story for Nathaniel to tell but he has to portray as a tough guy while in the detention center.
One of my biggest fears is heights. It wasn’t until recently that I realized my fear. I hate crossing bridges, looking out of the window while going up an elevator, and going on rides at amusement parks. Whenever I got to six flags I try to conquer this fear but it always wins. I am able to get on the smaller rides but sometimes that is too much for me. I have been learning that my fears of heights are mind over matter. All I have to do is stop thinking and go take a risk.
Chapter 12, page 124 Mark is about to play his cello for the inmates. He's afraid that he won't keep their interest and they'll give him negative feedback. This example of fear is common in everyone, we all have something that we love to do but skeptical to let others know about it. Rejection of that love, which could be in writig, music or even a sport is a rejection of you as a person. Mark had fear of being rejected for the person he is.
ReplyDeleteI only had 2 fears throughout my life, being unhappy forever, being alone and the candyman. Now that I'm older I only have one fear which is being alone, there's a simple resolution to this problem and its being my self. Fear comes from confusion oneself and the surroundings a persons in, we are afraid of what we don't understand.