In “contents of dead man’s pocket” at first the main character-Tom have his value change from the beginning of story to the end. At first, the most important things to him are about the position of his job and money. Which are the things a lot of people treasure the most. At the end of the story, after he had the near to death experience, he now spends more time with his wife. He didn’t value the things he once treasured as important.
The things I value are: friendship, money, grades, relationships within family, my personal things, Necky, basketball, FUN, and religion. If I have to order those things from the most important to least important, the order would be: friendship/ FUN/ religion -> necky->basketball/grade/money-> relationships within family/personal things. Although some I value more than others, everyone of them I put up there are important to me.
There are a lot of things I put in the same category because they are very hard to tell which is more important. For example, in my heart the pressure from basketball is just as high as the pressure I get from grades. The feeling of have to be good in basketball and feeling of have to get good grades are very much similar. It might be harsh to say that I put the relationships within family the last in my category. However, for the time being, I did treasure them but the things I have to work for in the family more or less reduce that feeling of treasure. I don’t want people to think I don’t know how to thank my family or respect my parents but I don’t want to lie to myself nor anyone who is viewing this blog. So, please don’t comment on this particular thing.
We have a similar list consisting of almost the same things but in different order. My list is happiness, school, friends, love, arts/pets, money/family, religion, and basketball.
回覆刪除I feel the same way when categorizing all the values that are important. A lot of different things value differently, but yet, you feel the same pressure or feeling between the two.