Going To The Moon By Nino Ricci

Words: 1146
Pages: 5

Do you ever find yourself sitting at your desk wishing you were somewhere exotic and foreign instead of trying to write a persuasive essay for your english 12 class? We’ve all been there at some point. Have you ever used that procrastination time to consider why you’d want to be somewhere foreign instead of somewhere that you’re comfortable with? Maybe it’s because all you’ve done for the last three nights in a row is sit on your couch watching Netflix and eating junk food. Or maybe it’s because you are tired of your everyday surroundings and are itching to learn something new. Although most people are comfortable where they are in their lives, curiosity, the need for knowledge and the urge to escape our mundane lives show that things that …show more content…
Like the character Emma Swan from Once Upon a Time, the more information she learned about the magical world the more innocence she lost. Even though a lot of the things that she learned put her and her loved ones in danger she still craved answers to her questions about her fairytale family. She was drawn to the otherness of her families magical background because she wanted to learn more about it like in the short story “Going to the Moon” by Nino Ricci. The narrator in the story is a young boy who’s family immigrated to the United States of America. When he started going to elementary school he was immediately drawn to his teacher Miss Johnson. “She stood out from the stiff formality of the priests and nuns like a burst of colour in a grey landscape” (Nino Ricci, page 213). Miss Johnson decided to teach her class about outer space for the first couple weeks of school which really piqued the students interest. The way Miss Johnson taught the students made them want to learn as much as they could about what lies beyond the Earths atmosphere. As you grow up you realize it is pretty much impossible to quench your thirst for knowledge. The thought of something foreign and unknown bears the promise of new information which we as humans find to be extremely alluring. In the story “Your Mouth is Lovely” by Nancy Richler the young girl had never truly met her biological father and when she grew old enough to go live with him and his new wife the girl was intrigued by the thought of getting to know who her real family was and learning more about her father and his wife. Knowledge is something that everybody craves especially when the manners of obtaining that knowledge lead you away from your mundane daily