"Ingredients" - TheUtmostTrouble Forum https://www.theutmosttrouble.com/community/ingredients/ TheUtmostTrouble Discussion Board en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:17:00 +0000 wpForo 60 Practice Post https://www.theutmosttrouble.com/community/ingredients/practice-post/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:38:28 +0000 For our practice Blog Post your assignment is to answer the following in an entry of at least 2 paragraphs (you can determine the order): 

  1. Identify and discuss an item that is a part of everyday life that you (or someone you know) want(s). (This may work better if they are young and if the want is a physical item, but they could be older and it could also be an ability). 

  2. What would be the benefits of achieving this want? What would be the drawbacks? Be specific. Will this be an instance where nothing really changes? 

  3. Discuss what this want reveals about the person (and/or society). Think large and symbolically. Think about the implications as Reynolds offers them to us.  This symbol doesn’t have to be the actual truth. We’re working for the literary truth here, instead, where we have room for perfect foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism.

  4. Other reflections as necessary.

 

*It could be that the person can / has attain(ed) the item, but for a while it was craved…

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