Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Bluet Post
The passage in Bluets that speaks to me the most is, “We just don’t get to choose.” I feel like this speaks to what the book is about so far because the author talks about how she has fallen in love with the color blue, and how she has fallen in love with someone in the past who has broken her heart, and both of those instances of love happened without an active choice she made to start having feelings or preference for one thing over another. Sometimes you don’t get to choose what speaks to you, or what moves you emotionally, you just find yourself being affected by something. I believe the author found that connection with the color blue as she retraces moments in her past that led her to falling in love with this color. Similarly, when it comes to relationships and falling in love with a person, we often don’t get to choose whom we have feelings for. Sometimes you just find yourself crushing on the person who is supposedly “so not your type” or someone you would “never go for” and yet, you inexplicably find yourself having a connection to them. Since the person the author is referencing seems to have broken her heart, or at least scarred her emotionally in some way, I would say that she is referencing this instance with this passage. She was hurt by someone she loved, but at the end of the day she is making the argument that you don’t always have a choice with you might fall in love with.. I believe this passage is important to the book so far because it sums up both of the main discourses the book seems to be featuring.
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I really like your explanation behind this. I think she really does reflect on her emotions and heartbreak rather well. I also really do agree with the statement of you don't get to choose what speaks to you, which is entirely what my passage did "Then again, perhaps it does feel like a fire - the blue core of it, not the theatrical orange crackling. I have spent a lot of time staring at this core in my own "dark chamber," and I can testify that it provides an excellent example of how blue gives way to darkness, - and then how without warning, the darkness grows up into a cone of light. This one really spoke to me because a lot of the passages of the book I feel are gibberish, but a few of them have small little proverbs. I think this one really speaks to me because she is describing a fire not by its orange more prominent part, but how the blue smaller part of the fire is what actually provides the light and the core of the fire. I also really like how she speaks about blue lightening up her own dark chamber, and how that this color can light up even straight darkness.
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