Kenan Delbridge

“You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of the hill and away the stone goes, starting others…” –  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Chapter 1. After reflecting on this quote, I feel as if this is quote meant to serve as an encouragement to keep asking questions and increasing your knowledge until you find the answer your looking for. When I was reading over this quote, I began to have the opposite reaction to the one I perceived to be "correct" and this reaction could be symbolic of my senior year. As I sit back and reflect on my choices in life and my reason behind these choices, I began to uncover my true self. As these "stones keep starting other" I began to become more uncomfortable to the answers I found and began to reject these thoughts because I know the problem but choose not to act on this. Questions that truly challenged my morals and self - control and that would eventually shape the trajecto...

When reading over these Whitman journal entries,  I have to be honest I can't make sense of any of the writing present, but can still draw some interesting conclusions about these entries. A basic observation that I was able to make is that often times Whitman scribbled out whole sentence and wrote above the scribble or beside it. This shows that Whitman's thoughts were all over the place constantly rewriting his entries. This can also point to he wrote whatever was on his mind without much comprehension of what he was writing or the structure in which he was writing it. Another technique I noticed that Whitman used was when referencing religion he choose to keep this writing towards the sides or in the margins of the page. This could symbolize the belief that Whitman recognizes these religious influences and details but choose not to incorporate these thoughts in his entries. This can be seen through his perspective of religion. Walt Whitman is a skeptic of all religions; alth...