Yvonne Chang
Chris Fleischman
English 4, Section 36
15 October 2014
Blue Sky Research: On the Edge Caption: Television a marginal activity, but he also verbalizes that he cannot think about “one subject for minutes on end”. Even, though watches the television for three hours, but at six thoughts are minute. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson is a comic that revolves around a little boy name Calvin, with a personified stuffed tiger named Hobbes. To the public, Hobbes is an inanimate stuffed animal that Calvin brings around. On the other hand, for Calvin, Hobbes is his best friend and someone he can talk to all day long. Hobbes’ is somebody who resides in his marginal space or in other words, his imagination.
This leads us to Frazier’s…show more content… After he and his friends reach the seventh grade, they decide to visit “the woods” again. They “like Adam and Eve, saw their own nakedness, and asked themselves the question “What are we doing?” making them feel ashamed (57). He goes on to say that now in the present time, as he was taking his kids to his favorite fishing lake. They come across a “narrow, shallow irrigation ditch, dating back from when that area had farms” (58). His kids immediately took off their shoes and jumped in to play in the water. Frazier realizes through his kids that having some marginal activities are not bad, and it gives people a sense of individuality. It does not matter what age we are, we can still enjoy ourselves whenever we desire…show more content… She explains that normally if she wanted something like this, she would try to save her allowance money. However, during that Christmas her parents had bought one for her. After using the microscope kit her parents gave her for Christmas, she was not able to find any bacterium or amoebas until spring when the pond near her house had melted. When Dillard found the amoebas, excitedly, she ran to tell her parents of her findings. Her mom replied her saying that they would not be going down to see it, because it is something she likes to do. The way her parents support her in the background made her feel as if she were her own person, and that she is an individual. Everyone has their own marginal space or activity, and some people may not enjoy what others like. Nevertheless, it is those activities that make a person themselves and not a programmed