Identity:
In this section, the book seems to suggest that we construct our identity from the world around us. On pages 66-69 Seagle is in the steam room and starts to daydream about what it would be like to stand out, like Superman does when he is in him costume. On pages 75-79 Seagle's thoughts about Superman are changing because of interactions with someone on the train. He focuses more on what comic books used to be and how he doesn't like the change they have taken. Seagle is reminded of how the comics used to be good lessons for the kids that read them and how now they are nothing of the sort. Justice, hero's, and good have been traded in for "snide and mean-spirited", overpriced picture books.
The book seems to say that we are shaped by everything that around us, our emotions are reactions from situations around us. In the first section that I mentioned, Seagle is hinting that he believes our clothes to be a uniform. When he shows Superman embarrassed to be in a world of naked people while he is dressed in his costume he is relating that to how he felt when he was the only naked person in the world. It is weird to stand out that much when we are so used to blending in.
In this section, the book seems to suggest that we construct our identity from the world around us. On pages 66-69 Seagle is in the steam room and starts to daydream about what it would be like to stand out, like Superman does when he is in him costume. On pages 75-79 Seagle's thoughts about Superman are changing because of interactions with someone on the train. He focuses more on what comic books used to be and how he doesn't like the change they have taken. Seagle is reminded of how the comics used to be good lessons for the kids that read them and how now they are nothing of the sort. Justice, hero's, and good have been traded in for "snide and mean-spirited", overpriced picture books.
The book seems to say that we are shaped by everything that around us, our emotions are reactions from situations around us. In the first section that I mentioned, Seagle is hinting that he believes our clothes to be a uniform. When he shows Superman embarrassed to be in a world of naked people while he is dressed in his costume he is relating that to how he felt when he was the only naked person in the world. It is weird to stand out that much when we are so used to blending in.
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