"Paradox and Dream" Reflection

Paradox: "Fortunes are spent getting cats out of trees and dogs out of sewer pipes: but a girl screaming for help in the street draws only slammed doors, closed windows, and silence."

            This quote means that most people ignore when someone is in trouble or yelling for help, and don't take the time to at least help the person in trouble. You see dogs and cats are always getting rescued, yet people can' take their time to help out a person in need or in danger. Firefighters even spend their time getting a cat out of a tree, while they could be helping other people in need, because there is always someone around you that is in real need of help. Most of the time people will ignore the fact that someone is screaming because they think they are just playing, when in reality they are in danger and could be getting hurt.

               I feel like I can relate to this because I have seen it. There was actual footage of a girl getting run over, and many people passed by her including cars and did nothing about, like if there was no one there. We can also see this in movies a lot of the times when someone is screaming for help, yet people think they are just playing. We also see in movies firefighters getting cats out of trees, and this is also portrayed in children's books. 

Paradox: "We truly believe to be natural born mechanics and do-it-yourself-ers."

                This quote means that many people think they can do anything without reading the instructions or by getting help from others. Many people think that they can fix anything by themselves without having to pay for help or by simply reading the instructions. They always end up making things worse, even thought people still believe that they can do everything by theirselves. This quote is portrayed in a lot of movies where they end up making everything worse and failing at doing it by urself. 

                  I can relate to this quote because I have seen it, and it is in my family. My mom's side of the family is all about doing everything by themselves. My uncle put his own table together because he didn't want any help to do it or to have to pay to have it be done. They try to fix everything before their only option to fix it is to pay for help. My mom also doesn't like following the instructions for baking or cooking and she estimates the measurements for the ingredients. I also saw this in a t.v show where a mom wanted to put together a swing and slide set by herself, and she turned out breaking some of the parts, so in the end she had to pay more to replace the parts and pay to put the swing and slide set together.