Convergences (Week 2)

When I first heard that we were going to blog about what we read in the book, I thought I could get away with just looking at everyones posts and drawing a conclusion from that. It is hard to make your own blog post with your thoughts in it, when you are just looking at other people's personal thoughts. So after breaking down and reading the assigned pages, I realized that what I had read relates to so many different things.

After reading the twenty two pages in Convergences I came to the conclusion that I could relate this to something in my life. I might be going out on a tangent with this, but I am going to go with it anyway. When I got to the section in the reading that talked about audience and purpose, I realized that this could relate to my career in volleyball. ( If you would call it a career.) I noticed that playing volleyball can relate to how someone writes. Everyone thinks differently when it comes to reading something. Someone might pick Charlotte's Web and think it is the most amazing book ever. Other people may think that it is the worst book ever written. I related this to volleyball because when you are playing you have to be able to read the ball that is coming towards you. There is always that chance that you never know what is going to happen, but most of the time you can focus on the ball and really understand what direction it is going. I also related volleyball in the sense of what the audience thinks. I have been in a game where I have heard someone say, " Holy crap! That was amazing!" and also I have heard someone say something like, "Oh, anyone could do what he just did." This all goes back to people will always have different thoughts no matter where you are. Whether you are reading a novel or watching a volleyball game, you always need to be on your toes for what is going to happen next. Hopefully this blog post makes some sort of sense, but if not at least I still got something out of it.