How wonder leads humans to success

How wonder can lead people to success

Created By Jonathan Raclin

     A high school student suffers a lot of stress and responsibilities from school. Success comes with organization and comfortability are crucial to have. Students, every day or week should dally amongst each other, and themselves, am I placing myself in a position to succeed? For myself, I recently asked myself that question and replied with negative comments because my workspace set up at home is inconvenient and uncomfortable. I came up with a way to fix this issue, which is to buy a new working desk. I then was able to asses that something so simple as a desk could affect my disposition, my organization, and most importantly my grades. I also took away that a new study area would lead to more productive working, which in turn would lead to a better understanding of the material I was learning. Through my better understanding, my grades would improve because of the increase of knowledge that I was able to allow myself to gain. In the novel Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, the main character John pays more than  $60,000 to climb Mount Everest. While on the mountain, the viewers on the bottom of the mountain witnessed the weather building up on the mountain and started to ask questions as if the climbers were becoming scant. The viewers asked questions like "... had climbers on the upper mountain not heeded the signs" (Krakauer 8). The viewers on the bottom of the mountain asked questions just like me, so they could better inform their selves to succeed. It is also important to ask your self-simple questions because not only can you better inform your person for the future, but you can lead yourselves or others into new experiences.
     By asking ourselves questions we not only can better inform our selves to succeed but we can gain advantages that lead to new experiences. I keep that thought in my head a lot when I am about to travel so that I can better inform myself to prepare for different kinds of travel. If I were to go on a summer trip to try and visit the orangutans on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, I would ask myself what kinds of transportation I was going to use so I could better inform myself of what to bring or even what to wear. I might have to bring a machete to hewn through the ground brush. Ask these questions I was able to travel to new places fully prepared, and ready to use all my five senses to understand and remember the moment. In, Into Thin Air, the author states that "... for more than a decade it remained an ambition" (Krakauer 23). Krakauer shows a great example of what can happen when you don't ask your self-question. If the author would have asked himself if he could do it, and if he motivated himself to go, a decade would not have had to pass. Just like in the movie, The Martian, Mark Watney questions himself with accretion but waits to do so. Another example of how questioning is so important, and how something as simple as asking yourself if you could do it, could lead to brand new and excited experiences maybe even joined with orangutans.
     Not only do we need to experience and live in a timely manner but we need to preserve the earth for future generations. There are questions we can ask today that could lead to discoveries which would benefit the planet. Improvements are necessary for air quality, safety, and defense, as well as, population control. Asking ourselves is this good for the environment, would be a life changer because most people thinking that question would respond with no, no it is not, which therefore take another poisonous fume producing toy or object to rest. Our earth is being poisoned by our mere presence and will not survive for too much longer if we don't start asking yourself guiding questions. Another area of concern would be safety and defense against and with other nations. The U.S. has had a conflict with North Korea for example, and it is critical that us citizens of the U.S. to ask ourselves could this start a deadly battle. Nuclear warfare is not off the table, so it is crucial for the U.S. to remain bonded with other threatening nations. Population control is also another area of concern because the birth rate vs. the death rate is very unequal. At one point in time, there will be too many people on this earth, and natural causes with start to take place. If scientists or mathematicians don't find proof, and solutions to population growth, the earth will be taken other entirely by humans.

This open door represents an opportunity for someone, something to walk, nigh, or move through. But why? Why is because there is opportunity that you could become wiser, more mature, or even gain an experience from. Humans view this "opportunity" as wonder. Humans see this door through wonder and through question alike; what is on the other side, or what would happen 

Glossary

1) Dally
Definition = To talk or converse lightly
Affixes and roots = none
In Text = "Four hundred feet above, where the summit was still washed in bright sunlight under and immaculate cobalt sky, my compadres dallied to memorize their arrival at the apex of the planet..." (Krakauer 11).

2) Nigh
Definition = To go, come, or draw near to (a person, place, etc.); to approach closely
Affixes and roots = none
In Text = " None of them imagined that a horrible ordeal was drawing nigh" (Krakauer 11).

3) Accretion
Definition = The process of growing by organic enlargement
Affixes and roots = tion
In Text = "The actual particulars of the event are unclear obscured by the accretion of myth" (Krakauer 15).

4) Hewn
Definition = to strike, with a cutting weapon.
Affixes and roots = none
In Text = "Its proportions are too chunky, too broad of beam, to cruelly hewn" (Krakauer 17).

5) Scant
Definition = existing or available in inadequate or barely sufficient amount, quantity, or degree.
Affixes = none
In Text = "Their knowledge of the deadly effects of extreme altitude was scant and their equipment was pathetically inadequate by modern standards" (Krakauer 17).

Bibliography

    "dally, v." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/46982. Accessed 16 November 2018.

    "nigh, v." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/126957. Accessed 16 November 2018.

    "hew, v." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/86561. Accessed 16 November 2018.

    "accretion, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/1239. Accessed 16 November 2018.

    "scant, adj. and adv." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/171918. Accessed 16 November 2018.

     Brack door, Pop Up Stores, https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&as_st=y&hl=en&tbs=sur%3Afc&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=e9PuW4q0IcLGjwTE5YuQBw&q=open+door&oq=open+door&gs_l=img.3..0l10.34663.36410..37595...0.0..0.126.796.4j4......2....1..gws-wiz-img.....0..0i67.i4wfZPHh91A&scrlybrkr=d7db031c#imgdii=dE28HdM0hmicDM:&imgrc=3QjX2g0P4hrkxM:

    Krakauer, John, Into Thin Air, Villard, 1997, novel

Blog part 5 - 6 OMAM

I think Curly's wife decided to confide in Lenny because she knew that Lenny was mentally challenged. Curly's wife was confiding in Lenny about how exactly Curly's hand was broken. She thinks that she knows but Lenny doesn't tell her. I think Lenny didn't tell her because saw that nobody else was telling her so he thought that if he did he would get in trouble.

Jon Raclin

Part 5 Question 2

I think what was ironic about the description of Curley's wife's death was the opposite of both what you would think of death and how she looked and acted when she was alive.  The description of her - pretty and simple, with rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly.  Curley's wife always looked for attention but now the ache for attention was gone from her face.  The irony is that one might not think a dead person would look so peaceful; but, Curley's wife, dead, covered in hay, looked peaceful yet alive.

Part 5 Question 6

The lie that George tells Slim is that Lennie would have gone South because they came from the North. This is a lie because if something ever happened to them on the Ranch, George told Lennie to go to the brush that they had stopped at on there way to the Ranch. The brush is therefore North because that's were they came from. This made me think that they might actually try to buy a house and live by themselves. It also made me think about why George wouldn't lead them to him because Lennie is such a pain to George. After reading chapter 6, I could see that his plan was to kill Lennie in the Brush by himself. He wanted to be able to kill him because he was his friend and would like to have done it himself. He would have felt like Candy and his dog if he wouldn't of done it himself.

Part 5-6 Lennie and Curely's Wife

       In part 5, Lennie and Curelys wife become part of the climax of Steinbeck's, Of Mice and Men. Part five starts with Lennie in the barn with his pup. Lennie slapped his pup when it looked like it was about to bite him. He was arguing with the dead pup and grew angry at the pup for dying. Curely's wife then came in and wanted to talk to Lennie. He started to obey George, but she convinced him to talk to her. She expressed that she was lonely and wanted to talk to other people than Curely. She then explained how her mother was horrible to her and whenever a large opportunity for her her mother denied it because she thought she was too young. She then explained how she met Curely and married him to get away from her mother. She then questions Lennie about the dead pup. He explains how he likes to pet soft things and she lets him pet her hair. He starts to mess her hair up and she screams. Lennie instinctively holds onto her hair in shock. He tells her not to scream putting his giant paw over her mouth and neck. He then shakes her and accidentally breaks her neck and kills her. I believe this is the climax of the story because it causes George to go with all the men and kills Lennie. Once Lennie had done this there was no turning back before he would've been tortured or killed.

Question 1: Lennie and Curlie's Wife

Lennie and Curly's wife were both part of a big scene in part 5 in Of Mice and Men. First, Curly's wife tells Lennie about her past, and tells him about her childhood and later life. Curly's wife first says that when she was younger, many people asked her about joining shows and movies, but her mother rebuffed the invitation. First, an actor asked her to join a show with him but her mom did not allow her to because she was too young. She says how if she went along with him she would be living a completely different life. Another time an actor told her how she was a natural in acting and how she could be in movies. He told her that he would write back to her once he got to Hollywood, but she did not get the letter. She supposes that her mom stole the letter so she did not know. Instead of following her dreams, she married Curly so she could be somewhere she could achieve something and not be completely restricted. She then tells Lennie that she does not even like Curley, she admits that this is the first time she had told someone. She says how she could be living a much better life if she had followed her dreams and become an actor. I believe that Curly's wife confessed this to Lennie because she trusts and and feels that he would not tell anyone. She believes that Lennie would have no reason to tell anyone and would just probably forget because of his memory and childish mind. She also told him this because she needed to admit this to someone in order for her to feel better about the situation. She is also struggling with loneliness in a place where she is only allowed to talk to Curly. She believes that talking to Lennie will give her someone to talk to that she knows will not tell Curly. Next, Lennie tells her how he likes to pet soft things. Now Curly's wife says how she has nice and soft hair and tells Lennie he could touch it. Lennie touches it and then she jerks back over fear of messing it up. Lennie freaks out and grasps on. In response, Curley's wife screams and to prevent the men from hearing, he covers her mouth and shook her. She then broke her neck and died.

Chapter 5 and 6 Question 1

Curleys wife tries to talk to Lennie, but Lennie refused saying that George would get very mad at him. Curleys wife keeps trying to convince Lennie to talk to her, but he wont listen so she starts talking anyways. Lennie is baited in and begins to listen, Curleys wife talks about her childhood and how she had a dream of being an actor but her mom always prevented her from doing this. Her mom would not let her follow her dream so she ended up marrying Curley. I think Curleys wife opened up to Lennie because Lennie is a safe person to talk to and he will not share it with anyone else. I also think Curleys wife desperately needed to tell someone so it would make her feel better. After Curleys wife speaks Lennie starts to talk about how he likes to pet things and that is why he wants the rabbits. When Curleys wife listens to how Lennie likes to stroke things she says she likes to stroke her hair to make it very nice. She tells Lennie to feel her hair and Lennie begins to stroke her hair and she says do not mess it up. Lennie keeps holding on and Curleys wife gets frustrated and screams and tries to wiggle out of Lennies grasp. Lennie also gets scared and grabs onto Curleys wifes hair and does not let go. Lennie tries to calm down Curleys wife by shaking her head and when he does this he snaps her neck and Curleys wife goes limp and is suddenly dead.