Ticket Response 2

After listening in class on Thursday, it helped to get a little bit of a better understanding with the fact that maybe the author is trying to make a point, and maybe the author is warning us of maybe what we might be becoming in some sort of way. I also was intrigued in my communications class when the lesson that day was that we give meaning to words. The reason that things might disgust or affect us is because we have given it a certain meaning and therefore we find this book grotesque, upsetting and quite disturbing. After that lecture I thought, maybe the author when writing this book knew that there was a power to the words he was using because most people give it a certain meaning. We are supposed to be held responsible for our feelings, not the author that caused us to feel this way. And maybe the author was aware of his power with words and was trying to get his point across in a way that was like “DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW?”. It really helped for me to realize that I am letting this book affect me because of how I normally interpret those words and how I give meanings to those things. I am still not quite sure of the point of the book, but I am hoping that now that I have learned that if I don’t let these words affect my emotions, I might be able to grasp a better understanding of the lesson.

Another possible reason I was in such distraught was because I feel like sex is such an amazing connection that you can share with someone…and because of my Christian upbringing…this was totally disgusting and not something special that you can cherish and share with someone your in love with. But once again, its special to me because I have given it that meaning and I have made that connection with those words, where as maybe I should come at it from another view point.

I think that there are many possible things that the author was trying to help us see, or stir in us. Maybe the authors point was to bring these meanings forward to us so that we realized how important sex, love and relationships are to each of us. Or maybe it was possible that the author is upset with the way our society views sex, love and relationships. Either way the author got to most of our emotions and made us think about our morals, and our understanding of how love, sex and relationships should be. I think even if you were to look at his story without all the sex you might see that maybe there is no meaning to that either. Maybe overall the book is a virus that we will receive by reading it. I don’t think that there is one direct answer, but many possible answers. I think this book helps us to explore ourselves, our meanings and what we believe about important topics in our life.