Prompt 1: If you could go anywhere is the world, where would you go? Why would you go there? Who would you want to go with?
Prompt 2: Do you prefer books or movies? Why? What is your favorite book/movie and why?
Prompt 3: Going off of the Harvard lecture: Would you rather let five people die or kill one person? Why? Is that answer different from what you would actually do when put in that situation? Why?
Response to Prompt 2:
I personally prefer books to movies. I don’t know exactly why, but I think it has something to do with how authors can create pictures using only words. I am better able to appreciate the creative manipulation of words to form a story than the use of various filming techniques to create the same story. I guess it just seems more fascinating and magical to me.
Either way, I have always preferred the written word to the spoken one. Throughout my life I’ve consistently chosen reading over watching TV or playing video games. I love books, while movies have always just been something to do when I’m sick and tired, or too lazy to read.
My favorite book is currently Looking for Alaska by John Green. It is amazing in its realness. For some reason, John Green is able to make this fictional story more real than most other authors. I also like it because it isn't just a happy story with a happy ending. I don’t want to spoil anything, but I will say that its more complicated than the typical happily ever after, and that is what makes it so real. Real, and amazing.
Anyway, books have always had more appeal to me, and of those, Looking for Alaska is one of the better ones I’ve found.
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