"The simple truth is that playing a game that you have chosen in order to demonstrate values, express purposes, or effect result that you have chosen is a very different process from having to play the game to win approval." - Laurence G. Boldt

This world gives everyone the chance to stray from one's morals and values; in order to satisfy the needs of others or to feel accepted by others. To "just be yourself" is sometimes easier said than done. Every human being searches for who they are and what their purpose is. If this purpose is not attractive, the easiest way out is to mold oneself into what others would like to see.

"The Door" is about the constant changes of everyday life encountered that can be overwhelming and frustrating. The guy in the story is sucked in by his need to understand the frustrations of life. He wants to forget about these frustrations, and just when he thinks he has found a solution, or the correct door, it ends up that something is still missing. He wants to give up his search f

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Rat Killey writes to a friend's sister about the death of her brother, in "How to tell a True War Story." The narrator keeps pointing out the ways to tell that this is a true story. His friend was playing catch with Rat, and stepped to the side coming down on a mine. He goes into great detail about the gore of the accident, and then says that the story is fake. The author feels that people have misconceptions of the war. All they want to hear about are the terrible battles and deaths. Basically, people always believe the lies and never the truth. War was not about battles and casualties; in a way there was something honorable and fulfilling about war. You began to appreciate life more and things that you have always taken for granted.

I think The Prisoner can be compared to Laurence G. Boldt's quote. If Number Six had not shown so much arrogance, the others would have believed him to be a prisoner. Then he would not have been tricked.

She quickly adapts to the rigors of the war, forgoing excursions through the "ville," and learning "how to clip an artery and pump up a plastic splint and shoot in morphine." These new accomplishments are accompanied by "a sudden new composure," and Mark, somewhat "proud" and "amazed," begins to identify her as "a different person." Mary Anne also seems to have physical changes. She falls "into the habits of the bush," and Mark thinks that "her body seemed foreign somehow-too stiff in places, too firm where the softness used to be." When she begins disappearing wi

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