Fear+Reflection

 __**Fear Reflection**__ We're all afraid of something; it's natural and it's human. The things that we're all afraid of are different from person to person, and a person can be afraid of many things, like in the poem by Raymond Carver, or only one thing, such as ourselves as Marianne Williamson says. One of the things that have caused fear is simply change. Americans have especially been fearful after the 9/11 attacks and some even when Obama became president (while others cheered). However, one thing we should all remember, is that no matter how scared we are, we should never let fear take over us. We should never be afraid to live, because then, we're just hiding from, hence the picture of the person looking through the crack. I chose several quotes from The Bluest Eye because I thought that book, out of all the ones we've read this year, represented fear the most. In these quotes, I've interpreted fear of of being "ugly," fear of being alone, though he says he's lost his fear of being whipped, and finally, fear of not belonging. Fear should be something we strive to control, and it's interesting the idea of fear being a knob we can turn off and on (image by Dinty Moore). We shouldn't fearless, because that would be unrealistic, but again, we should not let it guide us in life; we would never accomplish anything.

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