Logan Sullivan
Mrs. Wagener
AP English Lit.
31st July 2013
The Garden of
Eden
Who are
you? To the eyes of most people, this is an easy question. To others, the
question, “Who are you?” is a complicated and sometimes unanswerable question.
As for me, I am Logan Sullivan. From what I was taught, I believe that I was
made with a purpose. I believe that my ultimate goal is to strive for a place
after my death on Earth. And I believe that my place on Earth has meaning,
because this is what I have been taught. Not everyone will answer the same way
as I just did, some may even tell me that I am wrong, but this makes us who we
are. Science and religion always seem to contradict one another, and this can
be seen easily through the creation of the universe. Where did the Earth come
from? Some say the creation of God; some say The Big Bang Theory. Everything
has more meaning than what most people believe it to be; this is strongly
present in who we think we are and where we think the Earth came from.
The
world is full of judgment, and society always seems to be the leader of this.
Society wants us to think that brand of clothing, income, attractiveness, and
what we do for a living dictates who we are as a person, and in most cases,
they succeed. Physical items do not tell us who we are as a person, and one of
the most common things that people know us by is our name. We all have a name,
but how does it tell everyone who we are? In Sophie’s World, when Sophie was asked the question, “Who are you?”
one of the first things that went through her mind was if she had a different
name. Like Sophie, there was not just one name that my parents wanted to give
me. I have wondered how much my life would change just by a simple greeting if
my name was something else, and it is nearly impossible to do. We cannot
imagine ourselves with a different name; our name is a part of us, and we
cannot see it any other way. Another topic that tells us who we are is religion,
whether we believe it or not. Christianity teaches that who we are on Earth
should not matter, and that the only the thing that should matter is our
relationship with God. Who we are does not change, we are who we are.
The
thought of where the Earth came from has crossed everyone’s thoughts at some
point. As for me, I have been taught that God created the Earth in six days and
on the seventh day he rested, and that is what I truly believe. To those that
believe in science, they believe that somewhere in space there was a point of
infinite singularity that rapidly and violently exploded that gave birth to
millions and millions of galaxies, eventually forming the Earth in one of those
galaxies. Sophie makes a point in Sophie’s
World that it is hard to believe that a God has always existed and he was
never created from something else. I do agree with her in that it is hard to
believe, but that does not make it impossible for that to happen. Like Sophie
stated, these beliefs and assumptions bring us to our own thoughts and
conclusions on how we interpret our understanding of where the Earth came from.
People
have different beliefs about where the Earth came from; this can also tell us
something about who they are. Everyone has their own opinion or interpretation
on everything they see and think. To some people, others are wrong, to others,
some people are right, it’s our opinions and beliefs that make us who we are.
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