When I read the Induction to the "Taming of the Shrew", I realize that life is a lot like this. A lord, or powerful person (the media) tells a person how they should think and what they are or should be. The Lord, while he finds it amusing to hinder a person so, and make Christopher Sly feel as if he is also a Lord; this to me is very rude and honestly disgusting. To take an individual who lives amongst possibly nothing great and tell him tales of this glorious life he is to be part of. He lies to this man, a man who is only happy to be living outside of his less fortunate living arrangements; but he does not know at the same time. I think that our nation is guilty of this same “crime”; our generation believes that due to the media and other possibly negative influences we should live a certain way. The media tells us we need more, should look more like so and so; our nation is going into a crisis because we as Americans do not say stop. We do not need 10 credit cards or have to spend thousands of dollars on an outrageous car that will never see its full potential but as spoiled people we feel entitled to these amenities . This summer I am hoping to go to Guana with my church, which is where I know I will see a true appreciation of life. I go through pictures of this place sometimes; a place with little to nothing, and hardly a well to drink from. They carry dirty water three miles to their village only to see that it is so dirty that we as the spoiled nation we are would simply scoff at the idea of drinking it. Our mission groups come back changed by these people because they are always smiling and greeting those who enter. They do not know they are living in very desperate times; they are truly fulfilled by simply life itself. They do not have someone telling them they are less because they do not have the say material goods that we look to daily; most villages have one television and the only reason for that television is to watch soccer, TOGETHER AS A FAMILY, not to grow round and lazy and letting their children grow up in front of it. I know this is a little much just for the Induction but this is how I feel about this…nonsense.
