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Why do we allow others to tell our stories?

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Why do we allow others to tell our stories?

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"Dammed as thou art, thou hast enchanted her." This is where Desdemona's father found out about her and Othello. Desdemona's father was going to punish Othello. Desdemona then told the story of why they fell in love. Sometimes we let others tell our stories so that they can explain our actions and why we did them.

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How can our purpose help us experience life?

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How can our purpose help us experience life?

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"Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter." This is where Othello trusts Iago and his belief of Iago's integrity. Othello's purpose was to lead his men against his enemy which was then destroyed by the seas. To lead his men, he has to trust them which he does even though Iago is deceiving him. His purpose leads him to trust someone who isn't trustworthy. This leads him to experience something new.

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How does our purpose affect our journey and our destination?

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How does our purpose affect our journey and our destination?

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"Men in rage strike those that wish them best." This could be seen as a warning that people in rage will turn of those who wish them the best. In Othello that person in rage was Iago. Iago's purpose was to get Desdemona to be his. This led him down a path where he wouldn't get what he wanted and would suffer. Everyone's purpose leads them to their own destination or journey.

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How does our purpose effect everything around us?

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How does our purpose effect everything around us?

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"For she had eyes and choose me." One of the themes in this book is love. Othello's purpose was to both fight for his people and keep the love of Desdemona. Thier love however had some bad effects like with Iago who was betraying everyone so that he could be with Desdemona. This love effected many other people.

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"But I wear my heart upon my sleeve." Another way to tell our stories is through our emotions. Emotions are these things that we allow others to see, and it can tell others a bit of backstory behind us.

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How do others play a part in our stories?

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How do others play a part in our stories?

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"She has loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them." This was the love between Othello and Desdemona. This love would go on to play key and important parts to the story. Thier love would go on and be manipulated.

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"That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do." With Chris he did something that few people do or even try. He left everything behind which would go on to affect the people he left behind and the people he would go on to meet.

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"The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences." Chris' purpose was to live freely. He also wanted to have others follow in his footsteps. This then led him to meeting new people and took him to new destinations .

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"But in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future." Chris McCandless's purpose was to live freely. He also wanted to spread that kind of thinking to other people so that they could be happy. To do this he had to experience true freedom.

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How can our life experiences help us choose our purpose?

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How can our life experiences help us choose our purpose?

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"Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, all, all cry shame against me, yet I'll speak." This is where Othello is being deceived and he wants to have revenge on Desdemona. This is where he truly experiences deception. our life experiences lead us to do thigs both good and bad. In this case Othello is going to do something bad.

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"If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy." Chris McCandless was telling Ron to life a fuller life by leaving everything behind. Chris didn't just say this for no reason but he said it because he himself has gone through with leaving everything behind. His life experience has driven him to help others to be free which he helped him find his purpose.

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"Said he didn't want t see a single person, no airplanes, no sign of civilization." This was the part where Chris was getting close to his destination. Before all this we had been introduced to many people that helped him along the way and what he went through. We allow others to tell our stories so that we can teach them things and so that they can have new experiences. For Chris he wanted people to live freely and experience the wonders around them.

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How do we allow others to tell our stories?

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How do we allow others to tell our stories?

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"I prithee speak to me as to thy thinkings." One last way we can tell our story is by talking to others about our thoughts. By expressing our thoughts, we let people in and that creates a story to tell.

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"When the rangers pulled off the tarp, they found an old yellow Datsun without license plates." This was the car that Chris McCandless abandoned. It relates to the EQ because a way we allow others to tell our stories s by leaving things behind. In this case it showed us that Chris packed more things for his journey but he had to abandon it along with the car.

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"McCandless, in his naivete, relied on the advice of hunters he'd consulted in South Dakota." In this case these hunters would advise him on what to do to survive and eat in the wild. The only problem was these hunters weren't from Alaska where Chris would've been at. In this story Chris meets many people and each one would affect him in some sort of way, it could be some life advice or by telling their own story.

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"On April 15, 1992, Chris McCandless departed Carthage, South Dakota, in the cab of a Mack truck hauling a load of sunflower seeds: His "great Alaskan Odyssey" was underway." In terms of telling our story, Chris had his told in a biography type of way. Chris had passed away and his story is being told by someone else so that we can hear his story and what he did.

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"I don't regret anything I've done in life." Trevor's purpose was to tell his story. To do that he had to take risks and had to go through a lot of hard times but he regretted nothing. His purpose led him to a life which he never imagined.

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"Everything I have ever done I've done from a place of love." This was Trevor's mom telling him why he punish's him and that it's because she loves him. Trevors mothers purpose is to protect him to give him the best life. Her purpose effected Trevor in a good way because he grew up successful and more responsible.

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"That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people." Trevor's purpose of the book was to tell others about what life was like and what he had to go through along with many other people. One of the biggest things that were important to understand about Trevor's story was that you could be judged just based on what language you speak. You could be beaten up for speaking the wrong language.

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"Some cops pulled our minibus over." This part of the story was when the cops wanted to get a bribe from Trevor and his friends. This was an experience which would help him choose his purpose. Every encounter that he had with violence would help his choose his purpose. Especially when Abel would go on and shoot Trevor's mother.

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"I'd beg my grandmother to go outside." " No! They're going to take you." People in others stories often play some sort of role. They might be family or friends. For trevor his grandmother protected him she knew he could not be seen outside or he would be taken by the police. His mother also would be the one who would protect him.

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" I was nine years old when my mother threw me out of a moving car." There are a couple ways that we tell our stories. We could tell them in story form or through pictures or through song. In this case Trevor is telling his story in story form and having us visualize his story because of how much detail is in his story.

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"She turned around and looked at me and screamed, Run." This was the part of the story where Trevor's mom threw him out of the bus so that they could escape. A reason why we allow others to tell our stories is to learn about what our live's were like. For example the part of the story with the bus told us how dangerous the place Trevor was at really was. It told us that nowhere was safe. From there we can visualize what life must've been like for him.

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"You came so that you could learn about your dreams." While someone interpreting your dream isn't the same as someone telling our stories they have similarities. We let others tell our stories to learn new things. Like when the old lady said that the boy had to go to the pyramids.

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"I had the same dream twice." Santiago experiencing the dream was how his journey got started. He was able to find a purpose in life.

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"Then apartheid fell, Mandela walked free, and black South Africa went to war with itself." We allow others to tell our stories through history. Trevor Noah was able to tell us his story by first explaining the history of what was happening in South Africa first. Telling a story through history is one way we allow others to tell us their story.

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"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central roe in the history of the world." There are many reasons why we allow others to tell our stories. It can be to learn a lesson or give life advice. In this case the Alchemist told a story and then gave some words of wisdom.

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"I want to tell you a story about dreams." This is what the Alchemist said. We tell stories through story form. We like them to have a special meaning and relate to what is happening to us right now.

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"From here on, you will be alone," the Alchemist said "You are only three hours from the Pyramids." The boy had meet the Alchemist and they had traveled together. The Alchemist guided him and gave him advice. The Alchemist was also able to teach the boy somethings. All this had an affect in how the boy's story played out.

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"But for the past few days he had spoken to them about only one thing; the girl, the daughter of a merchant who lived in the village they would reach in about four days."
In the beginning, the one purpose he had was to see the girl. He was only focused on that thing. For this purpose, he was forced to visit the village with the merchant again. That's where he met other people who would tell him about his dream. That's where he starts his journey and starts to experience life.

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"All around him was the market, with people coming and going, shouting and buying, and the aroma of strange foods ... but nowhere could he find his new companion."
At this point he's sold everything he had. He did this so he could follow his purpose which was to reach the pyramids. But because of this he was robbed and left with only a book and two precious stones. Everything around him is being affected by decisions he made to follow his purpose.

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"And this is my interpretation: you must go to the Pyramids in Egypt." At the beginning the boy's purpose was to see the Merchants daughter again. Now because of the interpretation of the dream he now has to go to the Pyramids.