Knowledge is insidious. The way it infiltrates the deep, dark crevices of the brain and balloons the ego within is pure evil. In the play, A Christmas Carol, wonderfully penned by Charles Dickens, Marley, a ghost who was miserly when alive, carries around chains attached to money boxes. These chains symbolize a burden to Marley, as he must reminisce on his life of greed every minute of the afterlife. Knowledge is a chain to me, due to the fact that I must answer everyone’s questions, constantly perform, and have an awareness of all the negativity that surrounds the world. First, having to answer every inquisitive mind is quite tiresome. Since I am a competitive speller, and have placed in the top ten of the Scripps National Spelling Bee twice
