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 * //WHAT IS TRUTH?//**

=__Prompts__=

**__Prompt #5 (April 3): Truth in Of Mice and Men__**
====Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men explores themes of dreams, loneliness, equality and relationships that parallel many of the other texts we have read this year. Which theme do you think is most important? What is the "truth" about that theme revealed in the novel?====

====---In __Of Mice and Men__, The theme of dreams was most important. I thought this because it shows that if you want a strong dream to occur, faster you will need every part in accomplishing that dream. Lennie contributed the brawn, Gorge gave the brains, Candy gave the money, and Crooks gave the knowledge. All of these were needed for their farm dream to come true. The truth about dreams is that if want your dream to be smooth you will need every little thing for it to function just right. You will also need to have everything planned out in order to accomplish it. Having a dream is very easy thing to do, but actually accomplishing the dream is the hardest part of it.====

**__Prompt #4 (March 30): Truth in Great Expectations:__**
====Think about the different ways Dickens uses the idea of "expectations" in his novel. What is the truth about our expectations, either those we have for ourselves, those others have for us, or those we have for other people?====

====---Many people have great expectations for themselves, so that are possible and some that the goal is just unreachable. Im my opinion having expectations is setting a goal for yourself that can either be relistic or not, and then you try to accomplish that goal. Many people expect us to do great things like the scientists inventing something new, or someone doing something else, but truly the only real expectations is the one for ourselves because it represents who we are and what we want to accomplish in our life time.====

**__Prompt #3 (January 6): Truth in To Kill a Mockingbird:__**
====Reflect on our reading from __To Kill a Mockingbird__. We looked at issues of education, growing up, justice, fairness, and others. In our writing, we looked for connections between our personal experiences and those of the characters in the novels. What "truths" can be found in this book that relate to our world today?====

---In __To Kill a Mockingbird__ the fairness throughout the story is that the blacks are being persecuted for being black. Tom Robinson is being accused of rape on Mayela Ewell. Even though he is inisent and he knows it most of his sentancing and his later death ends up in the favor of all of the white people there. What they did was not fasir to tom. Many people now are still being accused of something that they havent done based on someones word.

__In this **Prompt //#2// (November 6): Truth in Lord of the Flies:**__
In our reading of William Golding's __Lord of the Flies__, we looked at issues of fear and evil, the "beast within." What can we learn and apply from Golding's work, either on a personal or societal level? What truths did you find in this novel or in our discussions about it?

---We can apply Golding's work because he leaves a message of what society really is and what would happen if it all fell apart. He also shows how we all have a "beast within" and how it takes something for it to come out, and it could be any short happening for it to strike on us. Sometimes it takes stressful, angry emotions, and sometimes it takes certain people to get this beast to come out. In the novel, Jack's "inner beast" comes out when the question of rescue comes up. will they be rescuesd from the island or will they be stranded for ever?

The general term “mythology” encompasses the stories that a culture creates to understand the truth of the world they live in and their place within it. From a personal standpoint, it is about understanding who we are and where we fit in our world experience. What is the "truth" of mythology as we have studied it? What truth have you learned from our investigations? What personal truths have been revealed to you? ---In my opinion, I think truth is about the way you act or tell someone something. If it is truthful or not. You understand what it is, and if you are truthful that means more people will understand and will be able to trust you for it. Like many of the myths, fables, and legends that we have read they are based on how people act and live. Many of the charactors at times were not very truthful to their fellow followers. Even though they might of done the right things at the right time some of the other times they didnt help at all. Like in the "Midas Myth" the nature of the cahractors is revealed by how greedy and selfish they are. Which also applys to what some of the humans do today.
 * __Writing propt //#1 Mythology://__**