Pressure :(

parents - one who we just have to listen to
schools - expected to have good grades
friends - doing things we don’t really want, influences

Most of the time I will follow through with these “pressures” but sometime when it is too much I will rebel. There are certain limits to my endurance, also what I think would be the best for me. As I grow older, less and less things would control me, I like to think independently.

I get to be Thoreau!!

That Keatting guy, he sounds very much so like me yet how is he so small and moving in that box thing. (Due to technology differences) Those kids that he taught, they are like my Ellen, a student of us transcendentalists. WAIT!! Did they took MY ideas and put it into that box?!?! Outrageous. It was nice to see many "understood" our teaching but that one guy Neal who had misinterpret it and had committed suicide. Too bad for him I guess, he could of had a luxurious life. Though many did got my concept and I was surprise to see the "inner light" above them as I watch this box with moving pictures.

Thoreau's Society

Thoreau was an unusual person yet he and the "unusual English teacher" had an unusual common. Though both had unusual actions, they were both significant to the theme of the play/movie. Thoreau who likes to does things backward and Keatting who had his unusual ways of teaching; ripping pages out of books, standing on desk, and marching around the courtyard. No other teachers would teach like him. Yes they are weird, but with these weird ideas, society was able to change through history.