Monday, May 20, 2013
“Quitting is contagious” (138) -Spencer
This quote has some significance. The speaker is Arnold. The interlocutor is the reader. During the basketball tryouts the kids had to run a "marathon" which is one hundred laps of the gym. About fifty laps through, one kid peeled away from the group and quit. Then, like it was contagious, other people quit after him. They didn't make the team. The significance of this is that, people don't want to do something if other people don't do it. They want to be "in the pack" and not an out liar.
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Since only three people quit, the quitters were still a minority, and not part of "the pack". I believe the reason "quitting is contagious" is all of the quitters were thinking what the first kid was thinking when he quit. All the others were waiting for, was someone else to do it, so they weren't alone. Even if they were going to expel themselves from "the pack", they didn't want to be the only ones.
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