Post by markbaron1 on Nov 2, 2014 4:10:44 GMT
When Perry makes this statement to Dick he is speaking of premonition and our inability as humans to interfere with our set future, or destiny. He claims that no action can be taken to avoid a terrible happening, one can only hope that it won't happen. I believe that his claim is true to an extent. Perry makes this statement in the context of a flashback to his motorcycle accident so I will use that as an example. Perry broke his legs in a horrific accident that he apparently saw coming. Dick asks the question that many readers, including myself, were probably asking. If Perry had this bad feeling, why didn't he do something about it? Perry responded later on that hope was his action, and his only possible one as well. I strongly disagree with this statement by Perry. I believe that hope is the only option if you let it be. Hope gives people a false sense of hope that things will go there way, which leads to reactivity not proactivity. Rather than taking action and then hoping those actions will make good, people hope and then don't take any action (Of course this isn't the case always). I agree in part with Perry that he may or may not have been able to prevent his horrible accident, but he could have taken action preceding his hope for something better. Another example of this in the story would be Mrs. Ashida and hr hope that she and her family could stay in Holcomb. Eventually it is decided by Mr. Ashida that they will move to Nebraska because he can not sense his wife's hopes, if she had acted on her hopes and taken a more proactive approach they maybe could have stayed in Holcomb.