Jake Welsh
9/24/2015 12:17:09 pm
I agree with the statement because everybody is both good and bad. Even a good person will do something bad, and a bad person will do something good. On page 24, The grandmother goes to the tree to take some bark. She knows this is wrong or bad, but she does it anyways. People are both good and bad.
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Makayla O'Neil
9/24/2015 06:15:31 pm
I don't completely understand your standpoint. I could be mistaken but, wasn't it the right handed twin who killed the left handed twin? Also I thought the right handed twin was the one to kill the grandmother since she was backing the crooked brother throughout the legend.
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Sam Carlisi
9/24/2015 07:23:05 pm
I do agree that even a bad person does somethings that are wrong and cruel, but to a certain extent. Also that bad people can do good things too. Everyone does good deeds and there are some who just do bad things more than good deeds.
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*Eddie Ochoa*
9/25/2015 01:34:50 pm
HEY JAKE!!! I agree because, people can do things or say things that might feel good to commit but others might find it offensive. So either way we are all good and bad.
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Rehan Asif
9/27/2015 10:18:33 am
I agree with your viewpoint. Everybody has a good and bad side, most people will do good, but they will also do bad.
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Jacob Yannatta
9/27/2015 12:08:13 pm
I feel like your standpoint is undecided. Your point about the left handed twin killing right handed twin is not correct. Right handed killed left handed.
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Makayla O'Neil
9/24/2015 06:10:51 pm
I agree with the statement that there is good and bad within everyone. No one is perfect and no one is completely ruthless, however i do believe that some people may let one side of them show more. On Page 24 the pregnant Grandmother goes to the Great Tree to take some its' bark. Inside she knew it was wrong, but she decided to let the bad side of her take over. This supports the statement people have both a good and bad side.
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Halle Monroe
9/26/2015 12:51:50 pm
I agree with you because nobody is perfect and I like how you said that some may let more of one side show. People may show more of one side but they still have qualities to the other.
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Jacob Yannatta
9/27/2015 11:56:52 am
I totally agree with what you are saying. You made some very good points in your essay.
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Collin Lockemy
9/27/2015 01:23:18 pm
I highly agree with you, not everyone is perfect and everyone has at least a little bit of sympathy inside them. I really liked how you found multiple examples from the text that supported your opinion!
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Sam Carlisi
9/24/2015 07:18:59 pm
I agree that no one is all good. Everyone has a bad side to them at one point in life and is never perfect. It's just in human nature that not just a good person doesn't do anything bad. What gets to us is temptation. Especially when the grandmother took a piece of bark from the special tree that had a big importance to it. As she was doing it she knew that it wasn't right.
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Jaleesa Clark
9/25/2015 12:19:38 pm
I agree with you, the temptation to do something can make you a bad person for it. Everyone has their own way of dealing with it.
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Rehan Asif
9/27/2015 10:16:17 am
I agree, I believe its human nature for even the most nicest person to have a bad side. We can give into our own temptation at anytime and do something bad.
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Jaleesa Clark
9/25/2015 12:17:23 pm
I agree with the statement, because I believe that there is good and bad within everyone even though they may have to be pushed to a limit. It would have to take both good and bad on the planet to balance out the world, and in human nature no one or thing is perfect. The temptation or the urge to do something chould change it to become good or bad. On page 24 when the mother in the skyworld takes a piece of bark from the tree when told not to, she disobeyed the rules knowing it was wrong. Her desire was to get the bark from the tree.
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Makayla O'Neil
9/25/2015 12:23:53 pm
I agree with your points made. I really like how you said "..they may have to be pushed to a limit." I never really thought about that, but its true, everyone has limitations especially with emotions. A lot of decisions we make as humans can be influenced greatly by our emotions.
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Halle Monroe
9/26/2015 12:48:40 pm
I agree with your statement because everyone does have limits and sometimes when we are pushed to them we break and do something we wouldn't think of doing. Nobody is perfect.
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Ashley Chorazyczewski
9/27/2015 05:41:57 pm
I agree with your statements that you made because their is good and bad in everyone. Also, everyone really does have their own limits and no one is made perfect.
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Bernard Crump
9/26/2015 10:26:02 am
I disagree with The twins representing human nature. Why? Because I believe that all people have a good side and all people have a dark side. So it is kind of a balance but sometimes you have to do wrong to make something right. For example: if the grandmother would of have slip or got pushed into the hole, I don't think earth would have been created (pg24). See sometimes bad can turn out to be good in the future.
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Jasmine Hall
9/27/2015 02:23:25 pm
You mean you agree with what the statement is saying. You are actually supporting the statement but I understand your confusion. The statement is saying the twins represented two ways of the world which are in all of humanity, not "you can be like one twin or the other twin you cannot be both." If that was the case I would disagree as well but that is not the case.
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Aidan Wilson
9/27/2015 04:21:42 pm
The twins represent the Straight and the Crooked, the Chaotic and Orderly, Good and Bad, or as you put it, Good and Dark. I don't necessarily agree with the "dark" side being the bad side, but that's a discussion for another time. But what I don't get is that you said that you don't agree with them as the two sides of human nature, but then said that you believe in two sides of human nature. could you please clarify as to what you meant?
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Halle Monroe
9/26/2015 12:44:20 pm
I agree that everyone has a "straight" and a "crooked" side to them. Nobody is perfect and though some may show more of one side doesn't mean that they don't posses qualities that come from the other side. Everybody has moments where one side always gets the best of them. Like when the grandmother took the bark of the roots to the tree that mustn't be mutilated (pg. 24) or how the right handed twin ended up sinking to the left handed twin's level for a few and killed him and the grandmother (pg. 28).
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Rehan Asif
9/27/2015 10:13:18 am
I agree with the viewpoint. Because i personally believe that everyone has a sense of good and bad. For example, the right handed twin was a kind an gentle person, and then became evil, while the left handed twin started out as an evil person, but then became as good as the right handed twin. Everyone will always be consumed by good or evil and become "straight" or "crooked." When the grandmother takes bark from the roots of the tree hat mustn't be touched ( on page 24). Also on page 28, when the right handed twin murdered his own grandmother and the left handed twin.
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Jasmine Hall
9/27/2015 03:13:07 pm
I definitely agree with you. Also, I believe there are ranges (for lack of vocabulary) to how much a person is bad or good.
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Aidan Wilson
9/27/2015 04:29:56 pm
You bring up a very circumstantial point, for instance, if you had to lie during a police interrogation to help a friend out, would that be included in the good or bad slot? Would that be a good reason or a bad one? What about lying to save a hundred lives, but because of that lie ten people die? You have an exellent point, it just needs a little fine tuning
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Ashley Chorazyczewski
9/27/2015 05:45:35 pm
I agree with you because everyone has good and bad in them. Also, about the twins not being completely good or evil. Sometimes you do have to lie in order to protect family and friends.
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Matthew Bommarito
9/28/2015 02:19:54 pm
I agree because if you are usually good then you will stay good but if you are bad you usually will stay a bad person for all your life.
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Jacob Yannatta
9/27/2015 12:05:02 pm
I agree that every person has a good and a bad side to them, no one can be perfect. In the story it is clear that everyone has a god and a bad side the two twins were very different people, but on page 28 the left twin began to be more like the right twin and was honest. Then his brother the right twin began to like the left twin and killed his brother. This goes to show both twins had the capability of killing each other no matter how honest or how crooked one was. On page 24 the grandmother in the sky world took the piece of bark knowing it was wrong she still did it. Her deviousness took over her this shows every person has a good and bad side to them.
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Jasmine Hall
9/27/2015 01:38:10 pm
Overall, I agree with the statement that there are two ways that are present in people and it is human nature to be either (or both) straight and/ or crooked minded. But one thing I disagree with is that people are born both (or either) straight and/or crooked. For example, on page 26, the straight twin/Rt is born the normal way and the natural way while the crooked twin/Lt is born a very abnormal way (out of his mother’s armpit) because he chose to be born that way, killing his mother in the process. This technically cannot happen in real life and especially before birth the baby cannot decide things. People are born straight and have the opportunity to become crooked, which most people do. Humans are affected by other humans and their environment around them. If you have ever heard of the saying "Good people can make bad decisions," then you know what I am talking about. That does not mean that there is an imbalance in human nature because of this. In time, human nature balances out. Time is one of the keys to harmony but is also one of the keys to discord and destruction.
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Samantha Reeves
9/27/2015 04:13:39 pm
I agree with how you say that some people could find being crooked minded more fun with all the attention it may bring them
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Collin Lockemy
9/27/2015 02:01:08 pm
I agree that there is good and bad in everyone, just different amounts in each person. The distribution of good and bad in people is was balances out the good and bad throughout the world. An example of this is that in the beginning of the short story, the right handed twin is good, he wants to be born normally, and creates the more peaceful animals in the world. The left handed twin on the other hand wants to be born different and is born out the mothers arm pit, killing her. Left handed twin also creates the bad animals in life. Although, towards the end of the story, the right handed twins bad side comes and and kills the left handed twin. This shows that even know that the right handed twin had all those good things in him, there was still a little bit of bad revealed in him.
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Aidan Wilson
9/27/2015 04:09:53 pm
Personally, I think that people are much more complicated than just straight minded or crooked, chaotic and orderly, good or bad, but for the sake of the question, I’m going to agree with the prompt thingy. There are two MAIN sides to people, and in this case, it’s the straight and the crooked. On page 26-27, there was the big battle between the twins, and they kinda swapped minds for a sec. beyond the fact that that Had to have given them a headache when they swapped back, it proves that anyone and anything can change, even if it is just for a small amount of time. So I do think there is potential for corruption and destruction, but also for purity and straight mindedness.
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Matthew Bommarito
9/28/2015 02:23:28 pm
I agree because there are many different ways that ca be describe as good or bad . You could abbreviate bad with mislead or good with kind.
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Samantha Reeves
9/27/2015 04:11:55 pm
I agree that each person is not completely good or completely evil, most of us are down the middle. Just like how the straight minded twin kills the crooked one in the fourth page of the story. He represented the good but did such a bad deed. This shows how no one can be completely perfect. It also shows how one human can be influenced by another. The grandma was convinced that the crooked twin was normal, which made her mad when he was killed and sent off the earth. It also wasn't right for the good twin to kill the grandma, that added more evil into his characterization.
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Ashley Chorazyczewski
9/27/2015 05:37:20 pm
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Jacob Minton
9/27/2015 08:02:28 pm
i agree with the idea of everyone is good and bad. truly no one can be pure good or evil, because that is all subjective and cannot be critically thought about to achieve an outcome of true good or evil. there is no example of a truly good or evil human in a real life situation. for the sake of argument, think of what you would consider to be a truly evil act. one might say the holocaust for example. but to Hitler what he was doing was a gift to society. If you were to consider your opinion to be the truth and say he was a truly evil entity, you would have to consider the opposite and think in that same logic, Hitler believed he did nothing wrong therefore making him not do anything wrong. the idea of good or evil is entirely subjective, so basically no one can ever truly even be good or bad at all. the human mind is incapable of reaching a level of intellect allowing us to realize true good and true evil, which is why there is a cultural stigma of certain things. because that is what the mass of people believe to be bad. in theory are they bad? no one can really know.
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Matthew Bommarito
9/28/2015 02:16:53 pm
I agree will it because all people do good and bad things in life. Any one that is good will most likely be a good person and not do any thing that is going to ruin their future. The bad twin will mostly do bad things and will do bad things.
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