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Dec. 4th, 2007 07:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedYesterday was the first time I ever cited a situation from a video game in class. In past classes, I did refer to situations from Peanuts (a comic strip), The Simpsons, Family Guy (cartoons), All My Children (a TV show), etc. but never anything from a video game. (Or, at least not during class, that is.) What's even more interesting, is that my only classmates in that class are six girls and no other boys, so they're most likely not familiar with video games, let alone the one I brought up.
Anyway, during Literature yesterday, we were talking about this short story called Doctor, which is about someone who is trying in vain to save Laurel (her anorexic friend) from dying. Dr. Baker explained that in situations like this, it's up to the dying person to save him- or her-self. No one else can save her, although other individuals could try to reason with her in hopes that she'll change her decision regarding life and death.
The game I referred to was Grandia III, although I didn't state any of the character's names or the name of the village [Terrarium]. Somewhere during that game, Yuki and his friends come to the town in question, and the citizens there have no hope of their own to save themselves from sooner or later turning into glass (a curse placed on them by the evil god Xorn). When our heroes speak to Hect, the mayor of Terrarium, she insists that everyone from Yuki's world is all the same, trying in vain to bring hope those living in the Verse Realm. Now, in response to that, most people would give up and let them continue to suffer, but Yuki and co didn't. Instead, they sought and found the root reason behind everyone's ordeal. In the end, it was up to Hect to decide whether or not to accept salvation, and she did.
Now, even though this was the first time I referred to a video game during class, there was actually one other time when I did talk about something from a game from a teacher. Namely, during 10th grade, while we were discussing the French Revolution in history, I noticed something interesting in my textbook which looks similar to something else in the instructions booklet for Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. One day, I brought the instruction booklet in my pocket, and after the end-of-period bell for that class rang, I went right up to Mr. Gilday and showed him the two pictures. The picture in the booklet was of the golden Triforce glowing in a purple sky, and the picture in the textbook was of a triangle with an eye, which was placed above some document. He thought it was a pretty interesting coincidence.
Anyway, during Literature yesterday, we were talking about this short story called Doctor, which is about someone who is trying in vain to save Laurel (her anorexic friend) from dying. Dr. Baker explained that in situations like this, it's up to the dying person to save him- or her-self. No one else can save her, although other individuals could try to reason with her in hopes that she'll change her decision regarding life and death.
The game I referred to was Grandia III, although I didn't state any of the character's names or the name of the village [Terrarium]. Somewhere during that game, Yuki and his friends come to the town in question, and the citizens there have no hope of their own to save themselves from sooner or later turning into glass (a curse placed on them by the evil god Xorn). When our heroes speak to Hect, the mayor of Terrarium, she insists that everyone from Yuki's world is all the same, trying in vain to bring hope those living in the Verse Realm. Now, in response to that, most people would give up and let them continue to suffer, but Yuki and co didn't. Instead, they sought and found the root reason behind everyone's ordeal. In the end, it was up to Hect to decide whether or not to accept salvation, and she did.
Now, even though this was the first time I referred to a video game during class, there was actually one other time when I did talk about something from a game from a teacher. Namely, during 10th grade, while we were discussing the French Revolution in history, I noticed something interesting in my textbook which looks similar to something else in the instructions booklet for Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. One day, I brought the instruction booklet in my pocket, and after the end-of-period bell for that class rang, I went right up to Mr. Gilday and showed him the two pictures. The picture in the booklet was of the golden Triforce glowing in a purple sky, and the picture in the textbook was of a triangle with an eye, which was placed above some document. He thought it was a pretty interesting coincidence.