DQ #5
March 28th, 2008
On page 47 in Rose’s Lives on the Boundary, Rose tells of how his mother uses the phrase, “se vuol Dio,” or “if God wants it” after almost every statment. He then continues later with, “I carried wiht me no history of assurance that what I was feeling would lead to anything.” How does this show that Rose is allowing his/his family’s past to affect his beief in his own abilities? Do you think it brought out a sense of insecurity in Rose?
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considering the family situation that Rose came from, there was, as he said, no “benign future” beckoning. there was no reason to believe that he had any real control over his life. whatever success he realized would be largely via the mercy of unseen forces, the will of God, or blind luck, however you wish to express it. that is true for all of us to some extent, but for someone with so little opportunity visable on the horizon, there is little else to latch onto. i don’t think this brought out a sense of insecurity in Rose. on the contrary, i think it provided a sort of protection from failure — a line of reason that just didn’t exist in his environment. his own life already had plenty of insecurity. “Se vuol Dio” was the anchor.