Nine Year Olds, Meet MonetI personally liked Nine Year Olds, Meet Monet. I liked this essay firstly because it was the easiest to analyze. All of the other essay we have read I found hard to analyze. The author's message was clear and it wasn't really hard to find.
I believe that author was trying to say that there needs to be a balance between conforming and being an individual. All of the kids in the story are conforming, they all do what they are told, they aren't being themselves. The author believes that society pressures kids into being something or someone they don't want to be. Being socialized isn't a bad thing, we need to be socialized to live with each other but we also need to be an individual.
I took the meaning of this essay as something a little different. I once heard part of a lecture from Ken Robinson, talking about do schools kill creativity. Once I read this essay, I immediately thought of this lecture. In school the most "useful" subjects are the main focus. Your interests as a child are steered away from the things you like because you wouldn't make it in life doing that. As a child if you are ever asked what you want to do when you grow up and you answer "Artist" or "Musician" you have probably been told that you won't make it and to get a 'real' job.
I have been personally told this too many times. But I am not going to listen to everyone. Art is my passion and I would not be happy doing something just because I could make a lot of money. I would rather be happy and be not as well off than be rich and not happy with my job.
This essay has been the best that we have read so far, in my opinion. It was something that I could highly relate too and I actually had interest in. Everything else we have read I have had no interest in and was boring or too complicated.
"Many highly talented, birlliant, creative people think they are not because the thing they were good at in school wasn't valued or was actually stigmatized." - Ken Robinson
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