Hinduism

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Mythology of Hinduism #3

I really need somebody to translate all of these things that this Watts fellow is saying. He seems to be speaking in a whole different language. I liked the way Mr. Farrell tried to explain Hinduism a lot better. This guy seemed to use metaphors and similies the whole way through the podcast. He was explaining how they believe that God created the west world, but then he says that he is still playing with the east world or something like that. I really don't know what that means. I think it means that he is still in the process of making it, but I'm not sure.

Theme

I would have to say that one of the themes that keep popping up, is the theme of parent child relationship. It seems in all of these stories that all of the kids have a bad relationship with their parents. In "The life you save may be your own", at first you think that the old lady takes very good care of her daughter and protects her. It ends up though that she trusts some random guy with her daughter, and the daughter ends up getting ditched. In "Book of the Dead", the father throws out the sculpture that the daughter worked very hard on. The story "Rules of the Game" has a parent that seems to be more of a chess drill sergeant than a parent. The story "Teenage Wasteland" has parents who work so hard to try to get their son to succeed, but their son will just not cooperate.

Book of the Dead

"Book of the Dead" is really weird their is not much else to say. It was a little weird that she made the statue naked, but I got past that part. This girl seems like a person who lets their emotions out through art. She must have been pretty good if somebody wanted to buy the sculpture. Even though the dad did not think he was worthy enough have a statue of him, I think he should have talked to the daughter about it instead of throwing it in the lake. It was pretty noble of them to visit the lady though instead of just blowing her off. I didn't like this book as much as the others, but it was not horrible.

Teenage Wasteland

Wow! This story made me so mad. I really did not like Donny at all. Daisy seemed like a caring parent and all she wanted was for her son to do good and school and be a good student. Donny does not need a tutor to do good in school he needs to quit being so lazy. Their is only one name for the character Cal in this story and that is, hippy. He thinks that not being so hard on Donny will take some stress off of him and make him better in school, but it had no affect on it. I do not think that Cal actually taught Donny anything and the only thing they did was just hangout the whole time he was over their. This is why he wanted the teachers to call him instead of Donny's parents so they wouldn't find out. At the end of this novel I really hated Cal and Donny, and I am glad that Donny ran away, because he probably ended up being a bum preaching his hippy ways, and that is what he deserves to be, a bum. I felt bad for the rest of the family, because they all had to suffer just because Donny is lazy.

Rules of The Game

This story was much better than "The life you save may be your own". It actually made sense and it was not weird and random. I thought it was pretty cool that the little girl was beating all of the older people. I did not like the fact that the mother pushed her daughter so hard. She seemed to be abusing her in a way. This reminds me of when parents push kids while they are doing something that they really like, for instance sports. Sometimes the parents push the kids too hard and the kid ends up hating what he loves to do. The mother at times seemed wise, and I almost started to like her, but then I was reminded of how she pushes her child to hard. She pushes Waverly so hard that she even runs away from her mother after leaving a shop. I guess I cannot really blame, because she has been through so much and is fed up with it. She probably could have solved it in a more civilized manner, but then again she is very young. I did not really get what the ending meant I am not sure if their was some sort of symbolic meaning to it I just didn't get it.

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

This was a very odd story for me to read, and I am going to tell you why. First off this guy just randomly shows up to the house and the old women and girl seem to have really no problem with it. He starts talking to them like he knows them or something, and at this point I was trying to figure out if he did know them. Then, I find out that he wants to fix the house. So, he goes about fixing the house. At first I thought maybe he was just a nice guy and he wanted to just fix the house for free, then I began to think that he wanted a place to stay. After awhile the guy has fixed numerous amounts of things, and then the old lady asked Mr.Shiftlet to marry her daughter. This seemed so weird, I mean she not even known the guy that long and she wants to give him her daughter. This was just so weird, because the old lady was so protective over the daughter, yet she gave him to a person who they have known for a short period of time. Mr. Shiftlet agrees to marry the daughter and, he takes some money and a car from the old lady to go on a "honeymoon". I really didn't think he had any intentions of staying with the daughter for very long, and when they got to a restaurant and she fell asleep, Mr. Shiftlet took off. This kind of made me mad, because the daughter did not do anything to deserve this. Then he picks up the kid and they insult each other's mothers and then the kid jumps out. I just found this to be very random, and I really didn't think it fell into the story very well. I would have to say that I did not enjoy this story very much just because it was very weird and random.