The Garden of Eden

Kaley Rose

Mrs. Wilhelmus

Ap English Lit

11 June 2013

The Garden of Eden

                                "Who are you?" and "Where does this World come from"

            If someone asked me, "Who I am?" I would start off with major traits and characteristics in which I think fulfill my own character and personality the best.  I am an athlete, who loves sports and pushing myself to be the best athlete I can be.  I am a student, who always enjoys learning different things from anything to science, math and to English and literature.  I love challenging myself in learning new things in each of these subjects, in hopes in one day to become an intelligent human being. I am athletic, intellectual, enthusiastic, and outgoing.  I feel like all those traits help define me on who I am.

            Another way I would describe who I am would to tell about the background on who I am. My name is Kaley May Rose. I am fifteen years old, and attend North High School. I am going to be a junior and I play softball and basketball. I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and lived in many places including Tennessee and Texas. I moved to Evansville, Indiana at the age of thirteen and plan on staying here throughout my high school career. People describe who they are in many different forms.

I have lived in many places and moved a lot.  I feel like living in different places can help define who you are too. Someone who lives in one place only experiences what people are like and what it is like to live only in that specific place.  But, if you move you get to experience different kinds of people and different environments. I feel like this is a big factor on who you are but that is only my opinion.

In Sophie’s World, Sophie asks the question, "What if I have been given a different name?" and if she would have been given a different name, "Would she then have been someone else?" This is a rather interesting question to me, because my parents have told me before how they were going to name me "Zoey".  Thinking about my name being Zoey seems rather strange but I honestly do not think that your name decides on who you are. What I really think matters is your actual characteristics, traits, and background that shapes your own unique personality and who you are.

If someone asked me, "Where does the world come from?" I would simply tell them my own beliefs. Being raised as a child all the way up to now, I was always taught that we came from God our creator but, in school I learned other beliefs that contradict my own belief. For example the story of Evolution and the Big Bang Theory.  After reading the first chapter it had my mind racing with many thoughts that Sophie had said. For example, Sophie said "Had God created himself out of nothing?" "Who created God?" These two questions had my mind wondering, but in the end I will side with my own belief and the only possibility left that God has always existed. That statement is so interesting because you can ask the question, "How could he always exist?" but this is what makes the world so interesting and where the world comes from so unique.  Other people believe in the science factors which contradicts our religion but religion and what we believe just also makes who we are.

In conclusion, I believe who we are is affected by our own characteristics, traits, and personality that make up our own unique personality. I do not believe in our names being a factor on that, but other people might. I also believe that we were made from God, but others believe in different things.  In the end, these two questions will always be interpreted differently from different people but that is what makes these two questions so interesting.