The class today (Wednesday the 9th) is different from any other class that we have ever had before. While the reading usually stimulates our emotions, today it is our emotions that stimulates the way that we read. And for me that changed the way that I read the following lines:
“People, before the war, used to worry,” Kevin Peters said, “used to worry about what it would be like after the war. After is not so scary. Before was scary.” He held up his hand and pointed around “This isn’t frightening to you, is it? Sad, but not frightening. And sad? Sad is okay.” (p.143).
This paragraph stopped me in my tracks while I was reading it because it was the first time since the election that the idea of the next four years might hold. Just like Kevin said, the people in America are scared because we are before the “war”. We are scared because we do not know what is to come Americans are worried right now because they do not know the gravity that the President elect Trump has. After the “war” is over we probably will not have the same feelings that we do right now. Right now we are scared, but later, it is about rebuilding. Rebuilding a country that was secure just four years ago and that, like Kevin Peters said, is sad.