Submitted by: Submitted by jeff05srt4
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Category: English Composition
Date Submitted: 02/07/2014 07:39 AM
Jeff Gardner
English 111.10
January 15, 2014
50 GSS #1
It seems to me that this story is very confusing and makes you scratch your head at what the reader is trying to say. It talks about a lot of things, a hedge, a dusty path, being in water, fish, people conversing, a pedometer that doesn’t move. I guess its talking about life, how great it can be and how we forget what its truly like to live the simple easy life. You can take one path, the path that hurts you as it seems he likes to take. In this path the thorns of life scratch at him and bring him down. Instead of going on through the paths of life it seems the hedge he wants to take is the end of the road path. It feels like he wants to give up instead of fighting along. When it seems like it is the end of the road, he has been reborn and has been given a new chance. This new chance is the other path, this path seems so delightfully perfect. Everything here is perfect. In a sense I think he feels like it is a dream. As if it is too good to be true. For some reason he seeks to escape from it not knowing that it really is great. This path is also easy to accomplish at times. From this point it seems he is intent on doing things his own way. He does not want help from others. Others offer food but he does not want to take it. And they also offer flowers but does not want them. He discards them after he is alone. Sounds like he is rejecting the modern world he is in.
It sounds like these gates that the author speaks of are types of dreams. One is false dream, where most of us lead up to. We dream about things that do not matter. We follow these ivory gates, these dreams that don’t really lead to happiness, we think they do of course. The author is trying to tell us that there are other gates that we should open up. These gates are honestly more important. It is in this dream that the author loses consciousness realizing that he is in his brother’s arms. He first realized that his brother had wasted his...