After reading “Out, Out—” by Robert Frost, reflect on a time when you faced a dangerous or high-pressure situation that demanded your complete focus. What made the situation risky, and how did your concentration affect the outcome?

 Prompt: After reading “Out, Out—” by Robert Frost, reflect on a time when you faced a dangerous or high-pressure situation that demanded your complete focus. What made the situation risky, and how did your concentration affect the outcome?

Prompt Response:

I don't think I've ever faced a dangerous situation in life, besides driving. Huddle up people, so during the summer my mom thought it was best to teach me how to drive all around, she even had me drive on highways. There's probably a chance we faced danger everyday since I almost crashed every single day, every one of those days I had to immediately focus. One day we were driving peacefully down a long road, I noticed from afar there was a car trying to cross the road to the next and I didn't think they would cross yet because they wouldn't have time. Passing through with a good amount of speed, I looked to my right toward my mom and saw the car inches from my car and I immediately pressed down the pedal to avoid the hit. I was not good at driving or noticing my surroundings, my mom and the person had probably expected nothing to happen but the thing is that I wasn't even aware of it and who knows if I had decided to slow down.

Summary:

Today we went to read a poem "Out Out" by Robert Frost but before that we watched a biography video about the author and wrote down three things we had learned about him. Mr. Rease read the poem with us first, then we would look back to look more carefully into the words. We are to write down what we guessed the poem was about and write down the definitions Mr. Rease provided to us. We annotated the poem thoroughly and would eventually find the theme.

Reflection:

I was reminded how people actually do move on with their lives even after the death of a person, there is not much they can do or change and can only accept the fact that they're gone. Society and time does not wait for a person, the only thing they can do is to continue on with their life and work.