before the law....

This weeks reading made me think a lot about all the labels and identity's that people always put on themselves and on other people. People always want to make sure that there is a "title" for something or someone, and even if a person hates the idea of that, it has to be. Thats the point of a languge, to identify things as how we see them, want to see them or how they naturally are, being right or wrong. As for laws, and cultural rules, I think they are made up a lot on how the person making them, sees the world and others as well as the period in time and what is majority fit as an idea in a society. And the people who have to live by them or chose not to, it's all with in their choices. We as people can make our own dicisions for the most part, and even if they decide to be "different" its their choice. It is your self. And at the end of the day the decisions tht you make, right or wrong, you have to live with them and think about the things and ideas that you do and put out there. For the story in the book, the guy chose to wait by that doorkeeper for all the rest of his life, and only sked if he could be let in. Even though the door keeper gave him the choice to "go in despite his Veto", the man still decided to wait patientiantly until the door keeper let him in, and in the end the man ended up waiting til his death to get in. He didnt even try to go pass maybe becasue he was scared of the other door keepers to come. I think it shows how much laws and rules can have affect on peoples lives and how they react to them. I thin only a certain amount of people are willing to be the ones who question and fight what they are put against. Like protestors or people who go to jail to fight a cause or to prove a point. While the rest are either to lazy or with their lack of knowledge and care chose to go with the flow and not to question things or even tlak about things and others but dont do anything to change it, which is what i think the man in the story was like. There are also those who believe in the law so much that it doesnt matter what people do they think everything is right. I think it all depends on the people we are and the time period we are in and what right and wrong are concidered to be and how labels can actually effect who we are and where we come from