The heavy-hitting themes that continue to arise today with the internet being so prevalent in our lives and connecting us to the most gruesome details about the world we live in seem to always have deeper meanings behind the surface of the words that the authors say. In the story ‘And of Clay we are Created’ the author speaks of a man and his quest to free a girl trapped in rubble. In his pursuit of attempting to cheer up the girl, the man finds himself more empathetic and emotional as he tries to cheer up a girl who he begins to realize has no chance for survival. The walls of his heart were stripped away and he found himself opening up in a way he never had thought possible. This connects to the story ‘The Garden of Forking Paths’. This story obviously is about a spy’s murder of a man during World War I, but there is a much deeper meaning behind the story as the spy’s host begins to explain the labyrinth of a book.
This author truly believes that the decisions we make affect us in the most strange ways and can only lead to more strange decisions. These themes can only be brought out by a lot of in-depth research and study of the authors. In my career as a teacher, it will be my job to truly grasp the meaning of a piece of literature more than just surface level stuff so that I will be able to teach about it.
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