Thinking+as+a+Hobby

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In Golding's "Thinking as a Hobby" he uses three different grades to describe the thought of different people. Grade three is made up of followers, grade two is made up of people who are beginning to think for themselves, and grade three is people who can think up their own ideas about the world, and don't need other's guidance. After reading his essay I happen to agree with his grades. In his essay, Golding uses three statues to describe the different grades. He uses the Venus de Milo as grade three, because she is only concerned with what he considers "trifles", such as beauty, love, and lust. To illustrate grade to thinking he uses a Leopard about to pounce, which I believe represents how grade two thinkers are always frustrated, and angry, because although they can think for themselves they can't yet move up to grade three, and that's why the leopard is about to pounce. Grade three is represented by The Thinker. He uses The Thinker to represent how grade three thinkers are constantly in thought, and how they are usually perceived as outcast, and are all by themselves. If I were to place the statues in a certain order, or place, I would choose to put them all in a classroom. The Thinker would sit alone on the teacher's desk, the leopard would sit at a desk in the front of the classroom, while the Venus de Milo would sit in a desk at the back of the classroom. The Thinker would be on the teacher's desk, because the teacher commands the classroom, and I believe that grade one thinkers command the world. They are people like the early presidents, leaders like Ghandi, and Martin Luther King Jr. They are the people who have changed the world with their actions. The Leopard would sit at a desk in the front of the classroom because grade two thinkers are eager to learn how to become a grade one thinker, they desperately want to learn, just like a student who sits in the front of the classroom. The Venus de Milo would sit at the back. This would represent how grade one thinkers are content to just watch things play out, they don't particularly want to get involved, or learn anything, just like a student at the back.