Question number 1 of the classroom questions we recieved tuesday asked "Where are you/we heading?". While this a short and simple question the variety of answers possible is limitless. So many different things come into factor when answering this question: a persons life ( where they live, parents, siblings, pets, etc etc), mental state, physical condition, etc. So to answer this question to the best of your ability you have to not over think, but put the first thing that comes to mind, because that is what you actually feel and you won't over think it. People who are in very similar situations can even answer this question completely different. I personally wrote down that I saw myself heading through a day of school to go home and take a nap, because at the time I was tired and out of it. Other people in my class wrote things down such as they saw themselves going to college and moving on in life, others, that or more fatalistic, wrote that everyone is heading to death. Now why I don't personally know everyone in the class, I do know a few personally and know that we relate in a lot of ways, and they had completely different answers then me.
This question applies to a lot of literature that we read for class, and not necessarily in the reading itself. I personally know I think a lot about where each character is heading in their life through their actions and thoughts. To me it feels like to many characters in literature do not think about this question at all and just react instantly or on the opposite end over think where they are going. An example that has both sides of the spectrum is Hamlet. Laertes reacts instantly to the death of his father and does not think at all about where fighting Hamlet to the death will lead him. Hamlet on the other hand, from what I perceived, over thought everything to death and procrastinated a lot.
