one scene from the play

    In the really end of play, Poozo and Lucky meet with the two again. However, it seems that they have forgotten they met each other yesterday, and they are disable now. Pozzo becomes blind and Lucky becomes dumb. Didi and Gogo keep asking Pozzo why and when he and Luck became blind and dumb. Pozzo avoids answering at the beginning , and gets angry about that question. He responded by asking the two if knowing the day is necessary. My questions are:

1: What their blind and dumb really mean?

2: Why they have never expressed any disappointing of their disabilities?

3: Why they forget Didi and Gogo even they just met yesterday?

4: Are they suffering ?

5: Why Didi and Gogo are interested in their encountering?

6: Why Pozzo avoid answering?

7: Why Pozzo and Lucky are still being together like Didi and Gogo?

8: Why Pozzo is so mad while being asked?

9: What is “one day” meaning in Pozzo’s talking?

10: Why Gogo forgets Poozo after meeting immediately?

11: Are these “Yesterday, Today, or Tonight” really meaning yesterday, today or tonight?

Questions about Godot

1. My favorite character is Meaning. 

2. “Waiting”. 

3. Since I finished reading the book, I have been thinking that whether their waiting is significant or not. At the beginning I ridiculed their naive behavior. However, look back the whole play, their “friendship” touches my heart. In the book, early Didi thought Gogo was gone for ever, but Gogo wasn’t and Didi said ,“Together again at last!” (P1) Through the development of plot, they have never ever abandoned each other. 

4. In act 1, they hadn’t noticed that why they were waiting, waiting for what. In act 2, they figured out their waiting wasn’t meaningless

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5.During this story, the “waiting” is acting like the process of our life, Godot is like the dream we have, or the goal we would like to achieve. Even thought the dream might be illusory, the goal may be unachievable, that doesn’t matter. The most important part is the process, the waiting. Their waiting seems meaningless, but they actually enjoyed the views,  felt the changes of world, and improved their thinking through waiting. 

Answer the questions about Waiting for Godot

1.The two guys on the video are like Vladimir and Estragon. If we stand on the Galaxy, a pretty faraway distance, we will delimit that they are an insignificant dust. However, once we stand on their inner heart, a closest position to touch their thinking, we will worship them as divine as a god. We always stand on the side where we think we are supposed to be, to survey others’ opinions. It’s not fair for both. Too far away or too close are not objective. So we are unable to catch the essence of an event. In other words, we should not judge anyone else on the side we are standing on.

2.Pozzo and Lucky are compared to Capitalists and workman during old era. Ostensibly, Pozzo is the host of Lucky, he has the right to command Lucky doing everything he wants. “Shall we have him dance, or sing, or recite, or think, or-” (p30) In fact, Pozzo is being limited by Lucky, without him Pozzo can not do anything even carry a baggage which is meaning taking care self. And also while falling into dilemma in the end, pozzo must count on Lucky in order to go forward.

3.Didi is usually more wisdom than Gogo.

Gogo is more negative than Didi since he always repeated “Nothing to be done.”

4.They are talking about a same purpose, waiting for Godot, a pointless purpose.

5.In our life, we are accustomed to waiting, waiting for something that we except, but never take any meaningful action to achieve that goal. We might ridicule Gogo’s negative, but aren’t we acting like him?

6.It’s actually about our style of life.

We would like to catch the meaningful of life, but time goes through we are waiting like the two re-ask themselves what they are doing on the play.

We should dominate ourselves in stead of counting on anyone else like Poozo has to depend on Lucky.

Is chasing a goal more important than a nice relationship between family or friends? During the play I see the answer is No. The two Sarcasm each other always but never abandon opponent ever.

7.It’s sad that I’m not able to figure out the connecting between the play and the word “insecure”

Climate changes

Climate doesn’t equal to temperature. The change of several temperatures will only affect a small area, but climate changes will beget many serious problems on our earth.

 There are some reasons to cause climate changes, but the origin is targeted to human activities. Scientists have approved that: “If there were more carbon dioxide, the surface would warm.” (P63) Forming Carbon dioxide by the factories which produce their products through burning fossil fuels makes our atmosphere became unstable to increase the probability of extreme weathers happening and results global warming.

“In the context of climate variation, anthropogenic factors are human activities which affect the climate. The scientific consensus on climate change is "that climate is changing and that these changes are in large part caused by human activities," and it "is largely irreversible ” （http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change）

       However, the fact that climate changes hasn’t been mentioned frequently. There is part of a conversation by White House “science deniers”.

“Absolutely, let’s listen to scientists, absolutely, let’s work with job creators,” Jindal said. “But let’s not do so in a way that hurts our economy.” Asked about his personal views on climate change, he said he believed that the climate is “always changing.” 

（http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/bobby-jindal-white-house-science-deniers-111003.html）

He didn’t answer the question straightforwardly, and paid the attention to economy instead of scientific conclusion.

Companies and government might hide it in order to keep their benefits. “Despite the attempts of the American oil and coal industry to obfuscate the scientific fact, people are waking up.” (73)

HW due 9/8 3 topics

1.America and other developed countries consume most resources. (P46-47)

"While the average citizen in those countries eats less meat each year than the average American house cat."

2.One of Climate changes' result: atmosphere is becoming thiner。（66-67）

“The sky is actually falling."

3. We, humans have been trying to control nature since "Stone Age". (P144)

"in a few parts of the world some tribes began to dominate nature, to intervene in restructuring their surroundings , to begin converting huge amounts of land from natural forest into grazing or farming land, thus producing even human food."