Blog #7: Citizenship and commitment

Before I start talking about if these values are or aren’t in the story i am going to explain the meaning of each value. Citizenship has the meaning of state of living in a particular area or town and behaving in a way that other people who live in that área will expect you, and the value of commitment means the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause activity, or to be dedicated to do something ,etc. The Raven is a poem that can be also considered as a story about a man trying to forget a lost love but he never succeeds, and this story has a dark mood and depressing theme. In my personal opinion, one of these 2 values is in the story. The reason why i am saying there is one value in this poem is because i believe it is represented like in an abstract way that is not literally mentioned in this poem. The reason why i am saying there is only 1 value is because there is a lack of citizenship that is very characteristic in a grieving process. As we read “The Raven” the author Edgar Allan Poe shows us this lack of citizenship by making the main character in a very depressed way and he is showing how big is the sadness the author is feeling. The reasons i believe commitment is in this poem is because we can infer that the main character is very commited with his lover, we can infer this because we see the depression he is feeling and how sad he is feeling because of the fact that his lover named lenore is dead. Another way i can see commitment in this story is in the fact that the raven is very commited to stay in the house of the author and is stubborn to say just one Word that is “nevermore”. As i read this spectacular poem that is called “The Raven” i can notice that the author that is in a very depressed tone and this causes the value of citizenship to be missing in this story because as we read we see that the main character is like closed in his feelings because of lenore´s recent death. Also in this poem we can see the value of commitment in another aspect that is when the main character is trying to understand why is the raven saying the Word “nevermore” and where did this raven come from. His commitment in making the questions and trying to understand everything. In conclusión this poem i believe has the value of commitment because of all of the details that make this poem to be depressing and because of the many questions the author have, for example when the main character is trying to understand the reason why this raven is in his chamber door saying the same Word over and over, and when he starts trying to understand if this raven is a celestial being, if is coming from hell or if this raven is his dead lover called lenore. And the reason i believe in this poem there is not citizenship is because of the fact that in the definition of citizenship we say that is the state of living in a particular área and behaving in a particular way that people in that área will expect you and in the poem we see that the main character is very depressed and emotionally closed because of the fact he is very sad by the reason of his lover “Lenore” death and his inside battle trying to deal with the pain he feels because of her lost.

Blog #6: patience and caring

The value of patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate, problems, or delay without becoming annoyed or anxious, and the value of caring means displaying kindness and concern for others. Like showing interest to someone. These two values are in the story in different parts and also in different ways, this story makes the readers to be not be afraid of being themselves and makes us feel comfortable  with what we think, and with who we are. The author focus a lot on the effects of self reliance, and this makes people to develop and accept their own culture. Self reliance makes us be patient because we must not discriminate any other person and is an example of caring because we must care about ourselves to be self reliance. the fact that he says we are free to practice any religion is an patience, every single person in the world is free to show his culture and be proud of it, being patient with this means respect them, don't judged and as they accept their own culture, we don't have to be afraid of who we are, we must love ourselves, just as Emerson invites us to do with our own culture, Truth is within one’s self. Emerson says that reliance upon institutionalized religion hinders the ability to grow mentally as an individual. Also Emerson mentions that citizens control the government so they have control. He also mentions “History cannot bring enlightenment; only individual searching can.” this sentence is an example of caring, because it show us that we need to search our enlightenment just to let ourselves be happy. Emerson wrote how the community is a distraction to self growth I believe he means with this that community with their distractions and their bad things and with people judging is not a good place to be self reliant cause this type of things affects us.  This would help the people to not change their beliefs just because other people aren't patient with them or just didn't care enough about humans.  Emerson with makes us think about what might we need  to think or what we need to do, without caring about someone else's opinion, he also said that the people don't have to be conformist but they need to look to big things and be happy and always go for more and explore ourselves and personalities. Emerson in this story has the message of being caring everywhere you have to be caring with others and with ourselves, he states many times that is not bad that we are different but we need to be ourselves even if people says that is wrong we truly belief is right. In my opinion, to be self reliant is to be comfortable and happy with who you are and don't let the society changes your way of being, but to reach that we need patience and caring not just with others and ourselves, we need to  value what others feels or what they think. I like this story because it really makes me think and analyze many aspects of my life