A Great and Sudden Change

9/22/2020

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Discuss the meaning of the quote above. Have you ever experienced a "great and sudden change"? How did it make you feel?

51 Comments

Tia Matthews

9/22/2020 01:13:20 pm

It’s meaning that when we are used to something for so long and then so suddenly changes, it’s hard for us to adjust. I’ve felt this when my family moved from our old house so suddenly. I hated moving so much especially since we moved into a camper till our house was finished.

Sara Deschaine

9/22/2020 01:15:14 pm

I like your thought of what the quote means. That is really tough to move from your house to a camper.

Anika

9/22/2020 01:16:56 pm

we had the same idea of the quote

Shayla

9/22/2020 01:23:10 pm

That is definitely a big change!

Cayden Logan

9/22/2020 01:13:36 pm

There haven't been alot of changes in my life, and any that have been weren't very great, but if the change wasn't in favor of my point of view, I would've probably been a little bit upset at least.

Sara Deschaine

9/22/2020 01:13:45 pm

This quote means it is hard to deal with change and it mess with your mind sometimes. A great and sudden change I have felt is COVID-19 and having to quarantine. I absolutely hated it and I never want to do it again.

Jada

9/22/2020 01:14:53 pm

I agree, Covid-19 was here so fast and quarantine was the worst!

Tia Matthews

9/22/2020 01:14:59 pm

I so agree. Quarantine was the worst thing ever.

Cayden Logan

9/22/2020 01:16:42 pm

For me, covid-19 wasn't too bad of a change, it just made the year a little bit boring in my opinion

Haylee

9/22/2020 01:16:59 pm

I so understand what you mean COVID was not the best.

Audrey

9/22/2020 01:17:20 pm

I like how you said that it messes with your mind.

Anika

9/22/2020 01:17:29 pm

Corona was absolutely the worst and i 100% agree about that.

Andrew

9/22/2020 01:20:26 pm

Yeah quarantine was a hard time for me to

Michael Gebhardt

9/22/2020 01:25:54 pm

I agree that quarantine was not fun.

Jada Crispin

9/22/2020 01:14:08 pm

This quote means that amazing or extremely difficult things can happen in the blink of an eye. One great but sudden thing that has happened to me is making the U19 AA Team Idaho hockey team. When I found out that I made the team it felt like a rush of excitement and nervousness.

Piper

9/22/2020 01:16:28 pm

Congrats on making the team.

Chloie

9/22/2020 01:17:37 pm

Congratulations on making the team!!

Piper

9/22/2020 01:15:06 pm

Change is something that most people aren’t ready for when it happens. It makes us feel as though we have no power to control our lives. The most recent “great and sudden change” I have experienced was being in a car accident and losing my brother. I felt powerless sitting there watching as the paramedics took him away in the ambulance. I felt as though I was somehow responsible for what happened. And it made me realize that no matter what changes you go through good or bad there is a reason and a lesson behind everything.

Sara Deschaine

9/22/2020 01:16:30 pm

I like your thought about change. It is very true.

Kali

9/22/2020 01:20:18 pm

I like how you said there is a lesson behind every change.

Anika

9/22/2020 01:15:27 pm

It means it takes the human mind a while to adapt but in sudden change it can’t adapt. Yes for cheer practice we had it all choreographed and learned then changed it right before performance. It made me feel worried and nervous.

Haylee

9/22/2020 01:18:13 pm

I like your thinking of what this quote means.

Riley J.

9/22/2020 01:18:14 pm

That probably wasn’t fun

Michael Gebhardt

9/22/2020 01:24:09 pm

I like your opinion on the meaning of the quote.

Haylee

9/22/2020 01:15:41 pm

It makes you feel like you are out of control of your life and that make you stressed out. It’s could even make you feel panicked. When you have to adjust it could be overwhelming. Yes I have felt this way and this is how I feel sometimes.

Tia Matthews

9/22/2020 01:17:15 pm

I agree change is sometimes hard and easy to deal with

Jada

9/22/2020 01:17:19 pm

I hate having a panicked feeling, and change is so overwhelming. I really like how you said this!

Piper

9/22/2020 01:17:59 pm

I like how you view change. It really is true when people get stressed it is often because we have things in our lives that we can’t control and they change.

Audrey

9/22/2020 01:18:15 pm

I agree with how you said it can stress you out.

Andrew

9/22/2020 01:15:52 pm

I think it means, when something drastic happens usually a person doesn’t take it that well because it throws them off their groove in a sense.

A great and sudden change for me is when I went from public school to Carmen and my mom told me a week before I was about to go to public so that threw me off.

Riley J.

9/22/2020 01:17:38 pm

Ya I remember that

Chloie

9/22/2020 01:19:08 pm

Wow that was a fast change I bet that was stressful.

Anna

9/22/2020 01:20:33 pm

Crazy crazy

Audrey

9/22/2020 01:15:59 pm

I believe it means that it's harder for the human mind to comprehend sudden change. When I experienced sudden change I felt overwhelmed and anxious.

Cayden Logan

9/22/2020 01:18:13 pm

What event caused you to feel that way? What changed from what?

Audrey

9/22/2020 01:18:58 pm

Moving out of my dad's house to my mom's.

Chloie

9/22/2020 01:16:24 pm

A great and sudden change is when something big in your life changes really fast and it’s hard to keep up with how new everything is. A great and sudden change that happened to me was getting a car and being able to drive.

Kali

9/22/2020 01:22:31 pm

Some changes are welcome

Riley

9/22/2020 01:24:46 pm

That is a big change. Most of the time we think change is bad, but getting a car is good.

Riley Jones

9/22/2020 01:17:10 pm

It made me feel not to great because I was so used to living in one place and then suddenly I wasn’t living there anymore

Andrew

9/22/2020 01:18:50 pm

Yeah moving is hard

Anna

9/22/2020 01:17:47 pm

You can get used to your everyday life, and when it gets disrupted it is hard to adjust. I have felt this way before. It took me a long time to accept what had happened and it is still hard.

Shayla

9/22/2020 01:21:43 pm

I agree, it is usual hard to adjust to a change and sometimes it takes a while to feel like everything is normal again.

Kali earl

9/22/2020 01:18:15 pm

The quote says that nothing is as painful to the human mind as a sudden change, I think that what it is saying is that are brain gets into a comfortable place and when there is a sudden change it throws of your brains routine and in turn you feel confused. A sudden change I had three years ago was moving. I had never even heard of salmon before we moved here and it was a challenge for my brain to learn to change and adapt into such a new setting.

Shayla

9/22/2020 01:19:16 pm

When there is a major change in someone’s life it can mess up there regular schedule and it can be hard to readjust. I had shoulder surgery this summer which was definitely a change. It was very much an emotion change and it was hard to get through but it is slowly getting better the more i get use to this new normal

Keller

9/24/2020 01:57:51 pm

There is always light in the end of the tunnel.

Riley

9/22/2020 01:20:52 pm

As humans we don't like to change so when it is sudden it is even more difficult. I experienced a sudden change when I changed schools. It was confusing and slightly overwhelming.

Keller

9/24/2020 01:57:08 pm

It certainly is.

Michael Gebhardt

9/22/2020 01:22:20 pm

I think the meaning of this quote is that when you lose someone close to you or something similar to that, it takes a toll on your mind and body. I have experienced a great and sudden changes since I’ve moved twice to different states. It has made me feel very out of place for the first little while.

Riley

9/22/2020 01:26:00 pm

I would say change takes a toll on my body.

Keller

9/24/2020 01:56:10 pm

The quote states the truth in reality. The more sudden something is the harder it hits. The one sudden change that has hit me was the word that I was hanging to move. It has affected me in some hard ways. But there is always a way to get through it.

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