Eclipse

I'am now on page 270 of Eclipse, and like always: ITS AMAZING. But I recently read one line in my book that is extremely captivating and am sure we can all relate to.

"I knew exactly what I wanted, but I was suddenly terrified of getting it" (Meyer 269).

I thought this quote is very infallible statment that i think anyone can relate to. (why is my comp. being so slow?- it is typing the words like 5 words after I actually type...oh there we go. nvm) In the novel, this quote convey's Bella's sudden ambivalence towards her situation. Ever since she met Edward, she has wanted to become a vampire. This is always been her goal and she had always knew that to become one of "them" was her ultimate destiny. But to become a vampire meant giving up her mortality. And as the imminent day of her change grew closer, Bella started to get anxious. She started to think about her life as a human being and all the intricacies of human life that she would be giving up. Bella then started asking her self questions. "Why was I panicking now? What should it frighten me that it was here?" (Meyer 268).
I think this situation happens to all of us. We plan on doing something and for the time being it is pretty far off in the future. However, as we approach our deadline, things start to enter our minds and play with our thoughts. Our conscience speaks and feeds us lots of advice that we may have never thought of before. As the event gets closer we have second thoughts and often get terrified. But in the end, either you follow through with your decision or you don't and you turn out content or learning from your mistakes.

Euthanasia

So, my ethical issue is Euthanasia and this is certainly not the first time I have encountered the topic. But as I read an eclectic array of views about this act, I am starting to form my own opinion. One comment though, I think that doctor-assisted-suicide and Euthanasia are pretty much interchangeable. Too many references are made to both within the same context that I think ultimately they both come down to one thing: the act of ending another person's life.
One of my positions on this is that if the patient is mentally competent and is in a lot of pain, more than any drug could cure, the patient ultimately has the right to choose to die. Additionally, if the patient is terminally ill and cannot speak for themselves, I think it is perfectly acceptable to have a trusted family member to decide their fate.

eclipse#2

" And yet ,with a strange, sudden intensity, that's exactly what i wanted. I wanted to talk to a normal human girl-friend. I wanted to moan a little bit, like any other teenage girl. I wanted my problems to be that simple. It would also be nice to have someone outside the whole vampire-werewolf mess to put things in perspective. Someone unbaised." (Meyer 135)

As a resuly of Bella's recent problems in her fictional-type world, she is thoroughly spent. Physically, she is inept to function with life's daily activities, but mentally Bella is a totally different person. A part of her is always with Edward, attached in all the petty ways that define love. Subconciously, Bella is connected with Jacob, as a friend who she she will never separate from and therefore communatively in love with. This struggle, as well as the additional conflict of watching out for herself as a greater war rages on is why this quote is so significant. I think that for once, Bella wants to step away from her life and be normal. Like many people do when life gets to tough, they see another person living a simple life and wish they could fill their shoes. For a moment, Bella contemplates her wish to be disassociated from the vampires and werewolfs and instead affliated with the sterotypical problems associated with teenagers. However, she doesn't want to leave her world completely. I think Bella wants to look at her capricious situation from another perspective so that the decisions she makes will be 100% justified and innocuous.

In class...

In class we are writing a research paper on ethical issues. There are many things in the world that are right or wrong. There are also many actions that are justified and unjustified. So, picking a topic for this paper was pretty hard for me. There were so many choices that i couldn't eliminate any because i was so intrigued by them all! But one won out in the end. I'm pretty sure im choosing Euthanasia. I've heard of it through the news and past readings but i think this time, I will really go in depth and learn things that I haven't considered or heard of. This paper will aslo give a good view on sides of the issue and maybe even help me create my own view of this issue.

eclipse

I just finished reading the first chapter of eclipse and i must say that it is very entertaining! Bella has this huge conflict and I can already sense it escalting. All throughout the last book, I knew that eventually Bella would be in great danger and now her time has come. She is looking for support in her friends but some of her friends want to be more than what she can commit. It is hard for her to choose because whenever you have a descion to make about your life, all possilbe choices seem like good ones. Now which one will Bella choose?
I'm predicting, that in the end, she will choose which ever one her heart leads her too. Granted, ,this is the vaguest possible answer, but I think that inside all of Bella's extrenal clumsiness and unqie personality, she knows that whatever she chooses will have consequences and benefits.

All my sons.

I really liked this book. I love reading Arthur Miller's plays because they are short yet hold a lot of action. On the outside, the play may seem simple and unassuming but in reality they have a lot of meaning under the surface. Once you BROACH the subject of the character's conflict, you then can truly say that you have read the book.
This book holds a major internal conflict: the conflict between what is right and what you want at the moment. We see 2 characters experience ambivalent feelings. Chris, in Act I, has decided to marry Ann. However, his dad feels that it would be wrong and his mom's heart would be broken. He feels that it is ok to marry Ann because Larry is wrong yet he doesn't know if it is the right thing to do because it might cause a lot of hard feelings also on Ann's side of the family.
We see Joe experience this conflict during the War when he makes the decision to ship the faulty warheads. At them time, he was acting on a whim and it was a quick decision he had to make in the heat of the moment that he believed was the right thing to do. However, the right thing to do was to not ship the faulty warheads because he needed to realize the magnitude of the stiuation he was in and that he really had the lives of many soldiers in his hands.