Besides that this is mandated to be a formal English2850 blog post, I wish I could type in caps lock for the rest of this blog post. But it’s not necessary because I am not a madman that cannot control an intense urge that is completely illogical.
How coincidental that this post is about the diary of a madman. This person is afraid of how people use their eyes. Who knew that people use eyes to look at things? This guy sure didn’t. He judges people by saying that he himself is being judged as if he is some psychic that can read people’s minds (244). He happens to guess that he is in the center of the world and that these people that look at him could not possibly be thinking of someone other than him. Am I justified in calling this guy a narcissistic brat?
Oh how rude of me, I completely forgot he is mentally ill. Besides my opinion on this person as one unit, I will focus the point the reason that he feels cannibalism is his main problem (246). As he writes his entries, I can really see how madmen reason themselves. It is not that he is all illogical, but that he makes reasonable deductions based on an illogical claim. On page 246, he claims that “they want to eat me“. Besides this claim, he says reasonable arguments such as you need to study what you do not know (245).
The fact that off of one misinterpretation that he can’t help misinterpreting, every other action or thought is unjustified because of the grounds that those actions or thoughts are in. For example, once you move to a place like Texas to farm, you’re not going to have the best crops in the world because no matter how good the plant quality it is, it is grounded in soil that is not made for the optimization of these plants. Therefore the plants are rendered as no good to eat. Drawing parallels to this analogy, the plants are the reasonable actions that the diary writer does such as studying about what you don’t know, and/or confronting a problem to your older brother about a problem. He is doing these actions because he is afraid of being eaten; not because of a problem he doesn’t know in the calculus class or being bullied at school (which is completely understandable based on his personality).
Why do you think he engages in such reasonable activity only on illogical grounds? And what is a madman considered as after reading this?