Essay 2

Sam

English

Mr. Salsich

9/22/10

Truly Knowing Somebody:

An Essay About Never Truly Knowing Someone

There are always those certain secrets I will share with my friends, but there are a few that stay locked up inside me and will never come out. Everyone keeps certain things to just themselves Therefore, you never completely know your friends. Charles Dickens the author of, “A Tale of Two Cities”, states this same theory. Can Dickens be right?

TS- Is it possible that my family and best friends don’t truly know me? SD- According to Dickens, nobody truly knows each other, “that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!” CM- Let it be your mom or dad, you truly don’t know somebody. CM- Every beating heart that sits next to you holds a deep secret or trait that is impossible to discover, except by the person themself.SD- It takes too long to, beyond doubt, know somebody, “No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I once loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all”. CM-In plain English, there isn’t enough time on earth to get to know somebody. This one lifetime is a fraction of the time it takes to read somebody’s entire book.(appositive) CM- Just when you thought you finally have someone figured out, you learn something new about a person. CS- I have always thought I knew my best friend like the back of my palm, until I read what Dickens had to say.

TS-Something that can relate to Dickens’ belief about not truly knowing someone is a box of chocolates. SD- When you eat a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get. CM-A person is filled with secrets and mysteries, just like a box of chocolates is filled with all different kinds of flavors. CM-My favorite part of eating chocolates is the wide variety of flavors, and my favorite part of a human is discovering new secrets.SD-As my friendship grows with my friends, I sporadically learn new secrets and traits I have never seen before CM- If you eat enough chocolate, you will discover new flavors you never tasted before.CM-Even though every now and then you find a new flavor, you can never discover them all, there’s simply not enough time.SD-Sometimes it’s better to savor the chocolates and eat them slow instead of rushing. CM-By eating them slow you will not get sick of them, instead you will enjoy every bite.CM-Furthermore, you never want to rush a friendship and figure out too many secrets too fast, or it will become dull. CS-Getting to know somebody can be a delicate process, but it can also be delicious like eating a box of chocolate.

After hearing Dickens’ thoughts, I too believe his theory. Once I thought about what he said, it made complete sense. Relating this thought to a box of chocolates also helped see his point. A person is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.