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Saint Leo MBA565 Module 7 Discussion

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Discussion question #4

Who are the most important people in your life? Why are they so meaningful to you?

I think the most important person in my life is my grandfather Abraham. Although no one else in the family knows how much of a good man he is, I know. He’d used to tell me about him being an orphan, fighting in wars, and all these other stories. When I was really young I first believed all these stories, but after a few years I got made fun of from believing them and eventually stopped like my dad and my aunt. No one believed his stories, even after he died. But deep down I knew he was a good man and he had no reason to lie to all of us. After finding out more about him from Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children he used to know it proved that everything he told me was true and that was a really honorable man. All the things he’s been through inspires me to continue his job of ridding the hollowgasts. Me and him are also very similar, we both can see the hollowgasts so I feel a strong connection to him. 

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Discussion question #3

How do you define success? Do you believe you’ve achieved success? If so how do you know? If not, what has prevented you?

Success to me is when I finish what my grandfather was trying to do, which is getting rid of all the hollowgasts. I haven’t gotten all of them yet as there are still many all around the world. They’re very strong but every time we kill one we are a little bit closer. They have long tentacled tongues and are huge. With the time loop closed and Miss Peregrine injured, the only thing to do now is to find all of these hollowgasts and stop them from hurting anymore people. What’s been preventing all the peculiars from getting rid of these hollowgasts is that they all can’t seem them, but I can. If I knew all these years I could’ve helped sooner, but now I’m ready to be the eyes for everyone and find the remaining hallowgasts. 

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Discussion question #2

Do you believe human nature is essentially good or bad? What I mean is, are we born as inherently caring, nurturing, sharing members of a collective group,  or are our most basic instincts self-serving, greedy, and focused on meeting our individual needs. What in your experience informs this belief? How does it manifest itself in your life.

From most of the people I’ve seen I’d say most people are self-serving, greedy and focused on their own needs more than others but I know no one started out that way. I think we were all born caring and nurturing but through different experiences everyone changes. Miss Peregrines two brothers were most likely born and had the same morals as Miss Peregrine, to be kind and help others but then with their interest of making themselves immortal growing they became more selfish. The nice people they were before changed and stopped considering other peoples feelings. When they made themselves become hollowgasts which made them look into extremely scary monsters. To make themselves look like humans, they needed to feed on other peculiars. For their own needs, they took lives of others. Where Miss Peregrine is extremely caring and wants to help us. Her and her brothers at one point were good people but her brothers were led to a dark path from their needs to live forever.

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Discussion question #1

Are our lives controlled by fate or free will? In other words, do the choices we make determine our futures, or is our life destined to be what it is? How does this perspective affect the way you interact with the world? 

Through my families and therapists decisions I was able to go to Cairnholm Island during this summer. If my aunt didn’t decide to give me grandpa’s book, I wouldn’t even know of this island. Then to convince my parents, my uncle taking back his invite to me staying with him this summer and my therapist choosing to encourage me to go visit the island for closure helped significantly. Although all these choices were very important in finding Miss Peregrines home at the island, I felt like it’s was all destiny. After two days of staying on this island, I was so close to giving up finding the home or any of the children that may have known my grandfather until I saw that peregrine bird. It felt like it was destiny when I saw that bird. It could just be a coincidence but I knew seeing that bird had something to do with fate. Overall I believe that our lives are mainly controlled by fate and destiny even though choices do contribute to what happens I feel like finding this island and following my grandpa’s path is my destiny.

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After reading, do you believe her fathers death was a suicide and does it matter to the story whether we know the truth or not? 

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Why do you think Alison wants a connection between her coming out and her fathers death? 

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Bechdel seems to want to judge her father and to resist judging him, perhaps most notoriously on page 100 (where she asks the question about whether she'd react to the picture of her father and Roy if the lover were a teenage girl instead). Why do you think her reaction to the picture was the way it was?