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Walden Ii Essay, Research Paper

WALDEN II PAPER

Elizabeth: Good, I am glad I found you here. It seems you are finally getting comfortable with our ways.

Sara: Yes, well I have slept so good these past two nights that I woke up rather early this morning. I usually don’t even eat breakfast at home, but everything is so good here.

Elizabeth: That is very true. Breakfast is my favorite meal here, sometimes; I wake up extra early just so I can help in the preparation.

Sara: Really, I am impressed. I could never wake up that early, especially on a school day.

Beth: Why is that?

Sara: Why can’t I wake up?

Beth: Yes, why are you so tired in the mornings?

Sara: Are you serious?

Beth: Yes of course I am.

Sara: Where should I start? Okay well I start by giving you my weekly schedule. Everyday of the week I have to be awake by 6:00 am. I get dressed, and chug down a cup of coffee to keep me awake. I try to be out the door between 7:15: and 7:30. Although I only live about ten miles away from school, I have to leave my house extra early, to beat the traffic, and drop off my little brother. No matter what time I leave my house, I always seem to hit a huge amount of traffic and I am always late. I always worry about walking into first period late.

Beth: Why are you worried?

Sara: Well, my first period teacher lectures a lot, and I feel rude when I walk in during the middle of a lecture.

Beth: I am sorry to interrupt you, but I still do not understand why you are so tired, all you have to do is go to bed earlier.

Sara: Things just aren’t that simple, I don’t get home until nearly 3:30. On Mondays I tutor from 3:30 –5:30, on Tuesdays I have Youth Educator meetings from 6:00- 9:30, and every other week I have Contra Costa Times Teen advisory board meetings. On Wednesdays I have a community college class from 4:00 – 7:00pm, and I work on the weekends. On top of all of this I have hours of homework, and college applications to fill out.

Beth: I understand why you are tired, but I don’t understand why you chose to participate in activities that you don’t enjoy.

Sara: I don’t really have a choice. I have to go to school, to get an education…even though in four out of six of my classes, all I do is get more homework to do outside of school, so they pretty much waste my time. Well I push myself so I can get into a good college, so I can get a good job, and be happy.

Beth: You always have a choice. Why do you live a life in order to become happy? Why are you not happy everyday?

Sara: I see your point, but all the pressure I have I put on myself. What is so much better about school here?

Beth: First on all we learn about what we want to, no one tells us what to learn.

Sara: Then don’t you lack the fundamentals?

Beth: Absolutely not. We embrace learning and often go beyond what is taught in normal schools.

Sara: You mean to say you like math.

Beth: Yes of course, what is not to like about math? The only reason that you dislike a subject is because you find it tedious and difficult, correct?

Sara: When you put it that way I agree.

Beth: Well, our teachers are not burdened with crowded classrooms and lack of time. Someone will work with us until we fully comprehend the material.

Sara: I suppose that makes sense. If I completely understood Pre-Calculus, I would have had not trouble going on to calculus…

Beth: How would you like to take a walk.

Sara: That sounds nice. I would like to go to the pond again if you don’t mind.

Beth: Sure.

Sara: I was wondering…I understand, that you can become or do anything you like here, but it takes away that driving force. I am referring to goals, and dreams. If I didn’t have goals or dreams, I don’t think that my life would have a purpose.

Beth: Our life has a purpose, we live to do our part. We can do whatever we like in order to accomplish that.

Sara: What do you do for a living?

Beth: We don’t rely on money to live. We work in order to receive credits which “pay” for all of our consumption’s here. Clothes, food, medical treatment, and our homes are paid for with credits.

Sara: Are things rationed then?

Beth: We have no reason to do that, people only take what they will use.

Sara: What about competition, what about being on top. What motivates you to do better?

Beth: We need no competition, no one is on the top, everyone in on an equal field. We don’t try to do better, because we already do our best.

Sara: Bull*censored*, no one is the same.

Beth: That’s not what I am saying, we just do our best everyday and there is nothing to improve upon.

Sara: I know that this sounds rude, but why does everything you say sound like you read it out of the Walden 2 handbook? Do you have any opinions of your own?

Beth: Of course I do. Everything I say is from my own thoughts, no one else’s. In fact in our studies on the modern society, we learned that in fact people outside of Walden II are more influenced by their parents than anyone else. Children tend to take the opinions of their parents and adopt them as their own.

Sara: In some regards I agree with you, but here it seems like everyone is exactly the same.

Beth: That is not true, we have different things for different people. Like in some rooms we play only on type of music, and not everyone likes it.

Sara: You don’t see it do you?

Beth: See what?

Sara: Never mind. You were saying that our parents influence us, what makes you any different?

Beth: Well at Walden II, we are pretty much raised by everybody. Everybody loves all of the children like their own and has a hand

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