Analyzing Individuality

Recently in my World Literacy Class we have been analyzing The Tao Te Ching by: Lao Tzu. In this blog entry I have decided to analyze number 70. Individuality.

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70. Individuality

My words are easy to understand
And my actions are easy to perform
Yet no other can understand or perform them.

My words have meaning; my actions have reason;
Yet these cannot be known and I cannot be known.

We are each unique, and therefore valuable;
Though the sage wears coarse clothes, his heart is jade.

I believe the first section of this piece just says that everyone is different and unique. Which if everyone is unique and different that is what makes balance in the world because not everyone can think or do the same things or there would not be enough of that in the world. For example if everyone in the world was meant to be teachers there would not be people of the other jobs the world needs like hairdressers, or priests, or anyone to work at the local department store.  

       

 The next section I believe means that people do things that they cannot always explain. Sometimes people just feel like they have to go a certain way in life, and that is what they do. The last section means that if everyone was the same not everyone on the earth would be needed because we would have other people to perform those tasks on this earth. But since everyone is unique everyone does their special job on this earth.

 

 

The Man who Walked Through Walls Close Read

         Have you ever wished you had a special power? A power that no one else had? I know I sure have! In the short reading The Man who Walked Through Walls, Dutilleul the main character has the special ability to walk through  walls. One of the things that I am curious about is why it took forty three years for him to discover that he had this capability. I wonder this because I bump into walls all the time and I know many other people who do as well, So how he never did to discover that he can go through the wall I do not know. This is not the only portion of this story that I wonder about.
         Another part of this story that I do not quite understand is why Dutilleul's coworkers and friends looked up to him like he is a superhero for being able to walk into buildings and steal things. I know that if my friend walked through the wall of a store or bank and stole things I would not be proud of them for that. I would wonder what they were thinking in the moment, and what possessed them to do it again. Even more I wonder why they would tell others and then on purpose get caught in the act. I know I would not have got caught just to prove that I am a criminal. When Caught I enjoy how he acts in jail.
         In jail I thought that it was funny how he could get out without being seen at all. I also wonder why they did not handcuff him to stay in his jail cell. Because I think if he had even one handcuff on attaching him to something that he could not get loose so he would not be able to leave the jail by walking through the walls. The part that make it worse is that he got out of jail more than once, would they not have thought of other ways to keep him there?
         Even when he got out of jail multiple times where he would receive his needs, I found it entertaining that he put himself into his own jail. He put himself into his own jail when he took the pill without looking at what sort of pill he was taking. He also planned it just right when he started walking through the wall and getting stuck in the middle of the wall from taking the mystery pill that ended up being his medication that stopped him from walking through walls.
         I hope you all read this wonderful short story and enjoy it as much as I did.