"You fear the future, OK. You fear anything new. Anything that disrupts your sense of security and self. Everything threatens you.
Where is the change over the course of the thing in the hero?
Where is the hero?
Where's the conflict? Where the hell is the dénouement?"
I chose this quote because I think it relates to how a lot of the freshman feel at this point in the college experience. Everything seems new and unfamiliar, which can be intimidating. The well-set social hierarchy of high school seems nearly demolished. And more traumatizing is the fact that this will propel all of us into a new age of self-discovery- figuring out who we are and where we fit in the grand scheme of things. Will you be the hero of your own life? Does life even have a 'hero,' or are they all bystanders to the powerful play, and contributing a verse in stream-of-consciousness Walt Whitman script? Life isn't lived in short stories, novels may or may not relate to actual life, and we will all discover the rest of our lives in these next few short years.
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