Not So Sure...

In our literature circle discussion on Friday, it was pretty much more of the same. In all honesty, I find the lit circle discussions irritating because we haven’t really worked out a system to actually discuss the topic. It’s really more of a Lit Circle Argument than anything else. More often than not, your opinion on the matter at hand is brutally rebutted and you are told point-blank that you are wrong. No matter how logical what you said was. On that note, I’ll head into the topic of the discussion itself. This week, we were asked to focus more on level three questions, or, in layman’s terms, questions that apply in everyday life. As I noted earlier, we discussed many of the things this week that we did last week, however, we attempted to apply our earlier musings to something closer to reality. Questions like “Why don’t some parents (who no longer actually love each other) get divorced even if staying married has a more negative effect on them and their children?”, “Why do so many schools have to cut their budgets?”, and “Why isn’t art really appreciated in schools anymore?”. These are some pretty interesting questions, but I’m not sure that they are the right kind of questions for Literature circle discussions seeing as there are a whole host of answers for each, so we can’t ever really discover the solutions, which is what we’re aiming for, right? Ask a question that relates to your book and reality, then find a way to answer your question, thus solving one more of the great mysteries of the world. Something I’ve always wanted to learn is how we think. Not what we think or why do we think, but how. How do we understand words in our head? How do we build images of things that are there? How the hell do our minds work? What overly complex math equation holds the answer? See there is a question that we would all love to have answered, one of the biggest mysteries of the world. If we can’t even answer our small lit circle discussion questions, how are we ever to answer bigger ones like that? Yeah, I understand that this post is about a million years late posting-wise, but I suppose it’s a good thing I still got it done.