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MattBurkeSecondEssay 3 - 19 May 2015 - Main.MattBurke
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| | | I held him after class and gave a speech. But my speech meant the same thing to him as his profanity had to me. An announcement: This is who I am. After my speech, we talked. | |
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< | We talked frequently. Often removed from class, I’d find him pacing the hallway. I’d find him in the office and hand him a stack of papers and a red pen. He’d grade some. I’d grade others. He told me about his family, his brothers in jail, and his father in Nevada. He talked about Nevada—his house had a backyard, he had his own room. We’d play cards. | >
> | We talked frequently. Often removed from class, I’d find him pacing the hallway and walk with him up past classroom doors. I’d find him in the office and hand him a stack of papers and a red pen. He’d grade some. I’d grade others. He told me about his family, his brothers in jail, and his father in Nevada. He talked about Nevada—his house had a backyard, he had his own room. We’d play cards. | | | Eventually they suspended Jon for stealing a teacher’s purse. He didn’t do it. He was with another student who did, but the other student pinned it on Jon, and Jon took the fall. In New York City, students serve suspensions for severe infractions in specially designated off-site centers. Jon stayed in a center for the remainder of the year. Infractions while there lengthened his term. | | | Then he asked me: “Is it okay to join a gang?” When I said "no," it missed the point.
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< | I put the second anecdote in my law school personal statement. There, it was about society, about "social problems." I didn’t use the word “aporia” because it didn’t fit the tone, but the meaning would’ve been right. As to the first anecdote, this is the first time I’ve joined the two scenes that form it—the realization upon which I premised the story is one I had while writing it, not, as I claim, while experiencing it. Together the aporia I previously located in society is relocated into people—the desire for something from another that none can give. | >
> | I put the second anecdote in my law school personal statement. There, it was about society, about "social problems." I didn’t use the word “aporia” because it didn’t fit the tone, but the meaning would’ve been right. As to the first anecdote, this is the first time I’ve joined the two scenes that form it—the realization upon which I premised the story is one I had while writing it, not, as I claim, while experiencing it. Together they relocate the aporia I previously located in society into people—the desire for something from another that none can give. | | |
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