Augustine heads to Carthage, ready to find both emotional and physical love. He also realizes that he is a jealous and suspicious lover. Augustine says, "Yet, had these things no soul, they would certainly not inspire our love" (31). If he didn't have these feelings he would not love and not care. At the end of chapter one Augustine says that he should be scourged with burning rods of jealousy, suspicion, fear, anger and strife. Augustin was fascinated by plays. He preferred tragedy because he loves feeling pity for people who go through struggle in life. He doesn't understand why people are made sad by tragic scenes. But, as a spectator he wishes to experience the sense of grief. Augustine also becomes very confused by misery and compassion.
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It took me a long time to realize once you confess your sins, god will forgive you. Also, it crazy how everything ties together. Today in chapel, Michael Spencer talked about abortion and how god can forgive the people who have sinned and killed innocent lives. In chapter 3 when Augustine is talking about living with "The Wreckers" and how they were extremely rude people. It made me think a movie called Mean Girls. There were 3 girls and they thought they were better than ever body else and they said really nasty things to other people in their school. Even when I was in high school there was always that one group of friends that were extremely rude to everyone else. I thought it was kind of confusing when the Bishop speaks to Augustine's mother and tells her he was once a Manichee. Like any teenager Augustine causes his mother a lot of grief. When I was in high school I remember numerous of times when I would make mother and my father worry. I think it's just a part of being a teenager, making your parents lives miserable. I never caught in the book how Augustine's father passed away. In the beginning of book three how Augustine talks about his love for plays and how he preferred to watch tragedy's, made me think about how a lot of girls like to watch love story movies. Girls watch love story movies for the sadness and endings. When Augustine talks about how he struggled to understand scripture and could not find the deeper meaning, I felt he didn't try to find the deeper meaning, he just gave up. Each book we ready it seems Augustine slowly grows up into an
It took me a long time to realize once you confess your sins, god will forgive you. Also, it crazy how everything ties together. Today in chapel, Michael Spencer talked about abortion and how god can forgive the people who have sinned and killed innocent lives. In chapter 3 when Augustine is talking about living with "The Wreckers" and how they were extremely rude people. It made me think a movie called Mean Girls. There were 3 girls and they thought they were better than ever body else and they said really nasty things to other people in their school. Even when I was in high school there was always that one group of friends that were extremely rude to everyone else. I thought it was kind of confusing when the Bishop speaks to Augustine's mother and tells her he was once a Manichee. Like any teenager Augustine causes his mother a lot of grief. When I was in high school I remember numerous of times when I would make mother and my father worry. I think it's just a part of being a teenager, making your parents lives miserable. I never caught in the book how Augustine's father passed away. In the beginning of book three how Augustine talks about his love for plays and how he preferred to watch tragedy's, made me think about how a lot of girls like to watch love story movies. Girls watch love story movies for the sadness and endings. When Augustine talks about how he struggled to understand scripture and could not find the deeper meaning, I felt he didn't try to find the deeper meaning, he just gave up. Each book we ready it seems Augustine slowly grows up into an