eternal

Sal: Well Matthew---looks like this is the end. It was really nice being your avatar even though this is only my second time talking in your blog.

Matthew: Sal, you live through me---you are always speaking. Every single post I write, you write.

Sal: Yeah, yeah whatever---I've heard it all before. You're a good kid though, I like you. Keep writing and you too---someday--will have developed a voice so strong that maybe you will also start a movement---a revolution.

Matthew: Thanks Sal, not only for being my avatar---but for doing what you do. The way you lived life is so inspiring to me---it is my dream to live a life as beautiful and exciting as yours was. The only reason I use dashes is because you do it and use them instead of commas. So really---at the end of the day---my writing is just a sorry attempt to emulate your spontaneous prose.

Sal: *laughs* You're a great kid. Never stop writing and never stop learning. Take what the world gives you and engrave it in yourself---but most of all---"live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."

Matthew: Forever.

Every character that we have read about has been a representative of the human individual's dealings with the obstacles faced throughout their course of life. Through Marjane, we are met with the obstacles of identity and war---how our identities are solidified in order to secure ourselves enough to remain sane. In A Man In a Case, Byelikov continues the human's desire for security by constantly sheltering himself and the environment around him---an irony that shows human insecurity at its highest. From our readings, we have explored the inner workings of the human mind and emotion---taking what we ingest and culminating it with our own world view. Perhaps we are asleep and this is all some sort of branch of a dream we are foreign to and, therefore, cannot differentiate from reality. But whether awake or not---we are here in this world living our life---and for that---we should be most thankful for.