Sean'sMeaning

== = = = = =My Meaning Statement:=
 * Through the hardships and the feelings of being left behind, of a place where I can be myself and to have a life where i am wanted by more than someone besides myself and my relatives.**

//The Book//

 * **I think Pony and Johny would feel almost the same about my meaning statement because I am trying to express the feeling of want, not like the way the socs want things but the way the greasers want a better life (not that i don't have a good life), and the fact that they are looking for better things and better ways to live out their life to the fullest. Even though the greasers were and are being born in the "ghetto", it is always the way that they stick together and having friends that i truly envy. Being something like a greaser, i try to think like one. Though my childhood wasn't very rough at all, I understand what the greasers are going through and I believe that they would be definitely on my side about what I said.**
 * **I would think that Johny was the best example of me. He was very to himself and somewhat personal about himself. He really liked natures beauty and the fact that everyone around him could and normally was a threat to himself so he was always on guard.**

//You//

 * **I believe that if i was in the book, the story would not change very much because I think like Johny and i would probably be either a "Dally" figure, or a "Johny" figure. I would blend in and really just be apart of the book, I wouldn't be a super aggressive person or a very withdrawn person, i would just be there.**


 * **I don't think that there is a specific relationship in my life that explains my My Meaning statement, though i do think that my life and the way i live it, is where i derive the subject for my My Meaning statement.**

//The Book//

 * **The objects in the book that I relate to most are probably the things that represent a sense of insecurity and fear. I doubt there are actual things that I relate to, like __Gone With The Wind__, or the church where Pony and Johny stay... but I think that I could relate to the brawls and when Johny is faced with a choice of letting his friend drown or killing a kid. I think that these things represent me in the way that I am always trying to be secure of my self and have a tough outer shell so that no one can seem to understand me or my feelings. I do open up sometimes, but thats when the fight is over and I am in a trusted place with trusted people**
 * **The places that I felt were closest to me were the places where there was a sense of security, like the gang hideouts where all of the friends are together and having fun and playing games. Being in a fighting setting is also like me. When there was the huge brawl at the end of the book was when i felt really connected with the story, where everyone was on their heels and no one let their guard down until the end where everyone had either fled or had been knocked down and had no way to get away so that they were at the mercy of the Greasers, or vise-versa.**
 * **I think where I live offers some sort of solution to my My Meaning statement though there aren't many real places I can go to find sanctuary where I feel safe and content with the people I am around.**
 * **The things in my life that give me meaning are the few people that I trust, the things that I hold dear to my heart (things I do not wish to mention in public), my self, in the sense of self preservation and life, and the most important thing is the way that the entire universe works against humans and progress in the way that nature erodes away at the threshhold of the earth's natural monuments.**

//The Book//

 * **The way the people talk in the book really doesn't change all that much about them, though all of the slang they use makes it somewhat more personal to them in the sense that they are all really close together and know each other well enough to trust them with their different words. Though this may be a little overstated, I really do think that it is something like that but not so "intense".**
 * **I think i would talk to Johny because he is the one that I believe that I can relate with. I think that we would talk about what we do with our lives and what we try to do to keep our lives intact and the people we hang with and what we think about them. I think I could be very open with him because i feel like I know what he feels like and what he feels that he knows to be true. We would talk about life and what we do in our spare time and we would be comfortable with each other because we both knew the other was going to be trustworthy and have a straight face no matter what the other said.**

**You**

 * **I would probably be the one being asked the questions. My parents would probably want to know what I meant by wanting someone to want me, that wouldn't make much sense to them. The questions they would ask would be these: Why do you want other people to want you? Why do you feel left behind? Do you really need a place to be alone instead of with people? - I may not be able to answer all of these questions because of the fact that i dont really know why. I what to know why but I believe that I need experience before I can truly know the answers to the questions I am faced with when I think of my deepest meanings and the things that I truly believe in without any doubt or question.**

//The Book//

 * **The characters were always connected in the sense that they were all looking for something different. If it was looking for something to want, or looking for something better in your life, everyone wanted something. This ties all of the people of the book together though the feeling of want is not the main conflict in the book I believe that it is something that all people, everywhere, cave in common.**
 * **Some people were hurt because everyone can't have everything everyone wants and in that instance, people are pained and destroyed from the inside out because they have lived a life wanting things they will never ever be able to reach.**

//You//

 * **The greatest conflict I have ever been apart of is the divorce between my parents. I am still coping with the effects because they are still having small quarells about me and who gets to see me when and where and they always say that they want the best for me but they have their own dilemmas they have to deal with and they rarely ask me what I want and do what they want then ask me if I was ok with it after the fact. I know...a little to much info, but I feel that it needs to be explained to really understand why my parent's divorce is such a large conflict in my life. I may have gone into to deep of detail on one specific part of my life, and I do think it was somewhat unnecessary...though so is everything else that aren't the absolute minimum needs of the human life...so who cares.**
 * **It was and still is a problem because of the fact that everyone I know is effected in some way by problems with their parents so I believe that this problem will go on for many children for as long as people still have contradicting thoughts.**