The Lion's Key

e.e. cummings writes in Next to of Course God America I and from line 10 to the end of the poem he hits on basically soldiers being slaughtered like cattle. Here's what he writes

why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-

itful than these heroic happy dead

who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter

Then also in Persepolis there is this same concept going on starting on page 99 it this idea of the key.  "you see this?"said the maid "it's a plastic key painted gold" said Mrs Satrapi "They gave this to my son at school. they told the boy that if they were lucky enough to die, this key would get them into heaven" and then a few pages later"thousands of young kids, promised a better life, exploded on the minefields with the keys around their necks." These pieces really seem to be portraying the same things to me basically the pointless loss of life. I think it is just mental that people would actually believe that just cause you have a little plastic toy key that you are going to heaven i mean hell that key was probably made in Taiwan for less than  a penny and unless my geography is wrong i don't think Taiwan is anywhere near heaven what i think is even MORE ludicrous is that full grown trusted RELIGIOUS adults brainwashed these kid KNOWING that they were LYING. hmm yet another reason i don't fling my self into the religious scene when people refuse to think for themselves and just do whatever a religious leader says is right... i think we have seen what happens several times throughout history. people use religion to get power. We say it happen in the "holy" roman empire and basically everywhere that believed that their leader had been sent to them by god. they just brainwash their people into think that what the ruler wants is what god wants... the biggest load of crap i have ever heard but i just cant stomach a good "enter religion here" man/woman brainwashing their youth so that they can "win" the war. i mean this isn't the first time that children have been used in war but at least when Hitler did it i don't think he was promising salvation when they took two to the chest...

Religion Strikes Again

Sooo Persopolis was a book that hit me kind of deep to think that the autor is roughly the same age as my mother and hearing some of the things she had to go through was pretty amazing to me i thought nothing like this had been going on for 50 years or better but reading this book i almost felt like they were talking about the 40's or something. I had never really thought people lived this strictly in the 80s. The part to me that is so stupid is the family in the book obviously hates what is going on in their country and apparently they have enough money to leave but they refuse too.. i mean i guess it would detract from the story if on page 3 they said "and they just moved to the united states" but whatever it made me look at my life in a different way. a little bit...

hmm i should have a title, no?

Starting on page 150 the pastor is up at his podium preaching. He says something to the effect of anyone who drinketh the drink eateth the bread unworthily shall be heating and drinking damnation onto himself and will become weak and sickly, then bam Craig is practically dying in like a page. This leads me into believing the book wants us to think that the reason he is sick is because he drank damnation... It just so conveniently happens that it is also the middle of winter and they had previously shown in the book that this family was rather poor and didn't like to turn on the heater. Which leads me to my second topic Craig's fascination with heaters on both pages 86 and 127  Craig  has some interaction with a heater in the first one he merely hears it but in the second one it is described and seems to be a miracle or something. The book talks about how back when Craig was younger temperature was a big problem it was either to hot or to cold and there really wasn't anything they could do about it. now he almost takes heat as a blessing. i mean looking at the vegetarian kid you soon realize he moderately resembles an Ethiopian but i have never really thought about heat like i am sure this kid has. i guess my last topic is that his 5th grade teacher is a Big time pain in the ass. i don't even think its legal to be a teacher and be that much of a never mind...thinking of words not appropriate anyways she is way outta line every time you see her so far. the way she humiliates Craig and all that is ridiculous but anyways her and all her "Holyness" should go somewhere where they don't ever have to see people again. :)