New Ideas

New ideas are hard to form, but when we are deep in history, how were these ideas formed? An example of a new idea that changed the world is the theory that the earth is round. Before someone had a small thought that the earth is round, everyone thought the earth was flat and you could fall off the edges. This idea might've been formed because the person who thought of this was just plain thinking. Maybe his imagination said that what if the world was round? What would life be like? And the idea just formed from there. Other ideas of how to form new ideas is taking another idea and thinking of a modified version of it, many theories have been reformed with new ideas. Guessing has taken a big part in finding new ideas, maybe electricity would not have been invented if Thomas Jefferson hadn't guessed about lightning. A part of guessing is trusting your instincts, as new ideas are hard to share if people do not believe in them. However, to me, imagination is the best way to explore new ideas.

My Favorite Short Story

In the unit of short stories, there were three main stories, my favorite one though was Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. The plot was very interesting with how you would think everything would be all right and then something happened, the climax kept changing, everyone getting more and more excited. However, the characterization is the most intriguing to me because all of the characters didn't seem what you would expect them to be. Mrs. Maloney looked innocent and nice but turned out to be possessive and manipulative, also for me, Sgt. Noonan didn't seem like he was either. I expected Jack Noonan to be suspicious of Mrs. Maloney for a long time but he seemed trapped in her innocence and didn't think anything of her other than she had suffered a terrible loss. All in all, Lamb to the Slaughter demonstrated the question, what makes a good story?