To me numbers seen very robotic always having an answer and always having a rule to follow, however in one book they are treated very differently. Mark Haddon talks about how prime numbers are like life in the book, the curoius incident of the dog in the night-time. The main character, Chris make a very random statement on prime numbers "I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all of your time thinking about them." In context with the book it doesn't seem like much just another blurb from Chris. Reading the quote alone though, gives the statement a whole new gravity to what it could mean.
While looking at the quote in class this morning, I tried to compare this meaning to how I view my life. First I tried to see what happens in my life to make it logical which is lots of things like the laws the government make and my school day. For example, there are many traffic rules used to avoid an accident like traffic lights, stop on red and go on green and In school there are nine periods in the day each about forty minutes lasting for eight hours. Both are very logical the traffic light to help people travel and the structured school day for kids to learn throughout the week, lasting about the same time as a part-time job. After that I looked at the second part of the quote. Which to me means no matter how many rules and guidelines we make there will still be holes that will never be covered on how to live life, for example there will most likely never be rules for the type of job you will work in. If there was a rule like this I feel it would impede a humans rights and free will. This is why the quote from Mark Haddon's book was such a revelation for me and for how I realize life can be viewed.
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