Synthesis

The differences and similarities between the T .V. show Smallville and the text "Being a Man"

Some people feel they have to hide who they really are to society to protect themselves and loved one. Smallville and "Being a Man" are going t o help support this thesis.

Similarities
They are two young boys struggling in everyday life to hide who they are or feel they really are. In Smallville Clark struggles to hide all of this powers and that he is from another plant to protect himself and his loved ones. In "Being a Man" by Paul Theroux he struggles to hide who he really wants to be in life, a writer, and he not become so manly.

Differences
The differences between these two stories would have to be that Clark in the TV show Smallville he accepts the fact why he has to hide who he really is to the world. but Paul Theroux in "Being a Man" doesnt want to accept that fact that he is different and he is not OK with that. He feels what he looks like should be the way a man should look like as the standard looking guy that girls look up too! He won't be happy until he has changed people's opinion.

Joy

Joy to me would have to be family! Making your family bigger by creating life and having it grow inside you for nine months or so.

Joy from Kristin

who have to be anything that makes her happy and calm and relax. Also it would also have to make her laugh

synthesis of Joy

Putting Kristins and mine joy feelings together I would have to create the movement of a child inside you hoping to see a footprint on yiur stomach and it would tickle and you would laugh. You wouldnt be able to stop smiling!

Plato's cave

The story that Plato writes about in his book called The Republic called Allegory of the Cave. IN this cave their are captives that their whole life is a fallacy. They are lead to believe that the images they are shown on this cave wall are what is real, and as far as they no all that they see is real. they live their lives in the pretend world and being content with it because they know no better. their captors are almost like a mad scientist trying out there experiments on these people and not caring that they don't have any real life so to speak of. these captors thought they were so wise that they felt that they could keep these ignorant people down below. one man escapes and goes up to a new world to him and now he cant ever go back down under the cave.