When I think of Justice in the Return of the King I think of Arragorn, frodo, Legolas, and Gimli. Those four charaters are the peace keepers of the book and have one goal in life. Destroy the ring and Stop Sauron, from taking over the world and wiping out the human race.
Justice is doing the right thing, and I think tolkein is using these characters to tell us that we should well, do the right thing, but in a different way. I think each character is and allagorical. For example: Aargorn, the soon to be king, is trying to tell us that we should give up many things to be able to help others. arragorn gave his life to help the entire human race. And Frodo, the "ring bearer" who is destined to throw the ring into Mt. Doom, Is trying to tell us that no matter who you are, Wheather our the most important person in the world, or the random guy on the street, you should try to do what you can to make this world a better place.
Although there are these people out there who try to do the right thing, there are also does selfish people who only care about themselves. These are the "Justice blockers" I guess in the real world. But in the book
Sauron is the main thing blocking Justice. He is the evil Eye that wants to have the ring of power and get his human form back. These people in the book and in the real world are called the evil characters but are they really? Is there a such thing as evil? Or are these people really just things that Just don't want justice in this world. Is that what makes a person evil? The definition of evil is Wicked and cruel. But are these people really cruel? Do they torture anybody? I think they're just selfish people who want power.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
The Return of the King- Trust, what and who to believe in.
In my book The Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkein war is probably the largest issue being that the trio of Lord of the Rings is a fight between Orcs and humans. But if you look deeper into the book you will find that this war has started because of betrayal.Tolkein shows us this by making Saruman betray his apprentice Gandalf and helps Sauron create a army of Orcs to aid him in getting the ring and wiping out the human race.
Betrayal is a huge issue in this world, whether it be between friends, relationships, or allies of war. Betrayal isn't good for yourself or the other person(s). Many issues of trust have come up not only in this book but in the other 2 also. Several times has someone gone mad for the ring, and turned on all of his friends and allies. Just one of the many situations is when Boromir tried to kill Frodo so that he could control the ring and it's magical but evil power.
Another issue is trust. Trust sort of corresponds with Betrayal because when somebody betrays you it completely ruins the trust between you and that person. but in other cases there was no betrayal but the thing was evil all along. Take Smeagol for example. He was alternating his emotions to make him both good and bad, but eventually his bad side took over and bit Frodo's ring finger off making Smeagol and the ring fall into mount doom. But anyway Frodo trusted Smeagol to lead him and Sam to mount doom where they could dispose of the ring but at the right moment Smeagol leaped up at his chance and turned on Frodo for the ring.
Sam never trusted Smeagol but Frodo was too blind to see that all Smeagl wanted was the ring. Frodo therefore Trusted Smeagol to guide them more than Sam to believe. This shows that everyone , not only Frodo should be careful who's life they put their hands in.
Tolkein was a genius to be able to put these issues in the book along side war without messing up the entire book.
Betrayal is a huge issue in this world, whether it be between friends, relationships, or allies of war. Betrayal isn't good for yourself or the other person(s). Many issues of trust have come up not only in this book but in the other 2 also. Several times has someone gone mad for the ring, and turned on all of his friends and allies. Just one of the many situations is when Boromir tried to kill Frodo so that he could control the ring and it's magical but evil power.
Another issue is trust. Trust sort of corresponds with Betrayal because when somebody betrays you it completely ruins the trust between you and that person. but in other cases there was no betrayal but the thing was evil all along. Take Smeagol for example. He was alternating his emotions to make him both good and bad, but eventually his bad side took over and bit Frodo's ring finger off making Smeagol and the ring fall into mount doom. But anyway Frodo trusted Smeagol to lead him and Sam to mount doom where they could dispose of the ring but at the right moment Smeagol leaped up at his chance and turned on Frodo for the ring.
Sam never trusted Smeagol but Frodo was too blind to see that all Smeagl wanted was the ring. Frodo therefore Trusted Smeagol to guide them more than Sam to believe. This shows that everyone , not only Frodo should be careful who's life they put their hands in.
Tolkein was a genius to be able to put these issues in the book along side war without messing up the entire book.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
The Phantom Tollbooth: Expanded Annotation
"It seems like everyone in this book thinks everything that isn't like what they do is very strange "
Every where Milo goes I've noticed that everyone thinks what Milo does is strange. The way he grows, how he doesn't understand numbers, and many more. The way that Alec thought growing up was strange and how the Mathmagician didn't understand how Milo couldn't understand a letter the Mathmagician sent to his brother where the words were letters. Just made me think, how does Milo not question these things that people do?
In this world there are some people who do question other ways of living or growing up. But I don't think those people think about it the same way Alec and the king do.
Although many people question many ways of living. Without some of it we wouldn't really understand how other people in this world live. In ways other than lowing up religious buildings, taking important hostages, and just plain death threats. If we question those special ways, we may have an understanding of how we all are connected in many ways. Just like Milo and everyone else. Milo learned a lot from questioning and so did we as the readers. If Milo can learn that much in one trip to somewhere, why can't we?
When I was 7 i didn't know so much about any religion (even my own). When I found out that my friend was a Muslim and they couldn't eat pepperoni on their pizza I was really shocked. How could someone not have pepperoni? (of course now I don't have pepperoni on my pizza) But after the years of hanging out with them I learned why and didn't find it so weird anymore.
I wonder if Milo spent more time with everyone else the same thing would happen. That they wouldn't find Human's way of living odd? If only we could do that for everyone else in the world to stop terrorism?
Every where Milo goes I've noticed that everyone thinks what Milo does is strange. The way he grows, how he doesn't understand numbers, and many more. The way that Alec thought growing up was strange and how the Mathmagician didn't understand how Milo couldn't understand a letter the Mathmagician sent to his brother where the words were letters. Just made me think, how does Milo not question these things that people do?
Although many people question many ways of living. Without some of it we wouldn't really understand how other people in this world live. In ways other than lowing up religious buildings, taking important hostages, and just plain death threats. If we question those special ways, we may have an understanding of how we all are connected in many ways. Just like Milo and everyone else. Milo learned a lot from questioning and so did we as the readers. If Milo can learn that much in one trip to somewhere, why can't we?
When I was 7 i didn't know so much about any religion (even my own). When I found out that my friend was a Muslim and they couldn't eat pepperoni on their pizza I was really shocked. How could someone not have pepperoni? (of course now I don't have pepperoni on my pizza) But after the years of hanging out with them I learned why and didn't find it so weird anymore.
I wonder if Milo spent more time with everyone else the same thing would happen. That they wouldn't find Human's way of living odd? If only we could do that for everyone else in the world to stop terrorism?
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