Chapter
3 was easier to read than the previous ones. One of the things I enjoyed about
this chapter was how realistic the father and son relationship was portrayed.
By trying to be a good father, he indulges himself in the conversation of
ghosts, trying to interest his son and give him what he wants. I can relate to
when Chris has no idea what his father is talking about. I’ve been involved in
similar instances where my father and I are speaking and my younger brother can’t
grasp anything. When he asks a question, my father sighs and prepares for a
long explanation just the narrator. Not to mention, the mood the narrator is in
when he is kept from sleeping is one I am very familiar with. My father, as
well as the narrator becomes grumpy and angry when someone is stopping him from
getting his sleep. These types of
instances make the reader understand the narrator’s feelings.
Not to
mention, I found his monologue on what a ghost is or isn’t to be very
interesting. His way of thinking was different from any I had heard before. His
ideas made me think in a completely different way because they were new to me and
the captured my attention. For the most part, I think he is right; everything
is a ghost, everything is in your mind. You can’t really see science, “it has
no matter or energy”, but it’s still there.
Every idea is in our heads, in our imaginations, but it exists. However,
I disagree with the narrator on one thing: that the law of gravity did not
exist before Isaac Newton. In my opinion, the law did exist, like everything
else exists, except it hadn’t been discovered yet. For example, when new animal
or plant species are found, they are new to us, because we had never seen them
before, but that does not mean they didn’t exist, we just didn’t know about
them.
Jose Novas
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