“Don’t Get Comfortable” AACC/Discussion Abstract:Naton Leslie tells the story of a railroad detective by the name of Charley Best. Charley worked during the 1920s on the narrow-gauge lines between Pittsburgh and Northwestern Pennsylvania. The story had been passed down from Naton's grandfather to his father. Naton's father and grandfather both worked jobs that required them to be up really high off the ground or to hang off cliffs and bridges. This is why Naton learned that in places of danger one has to make sure not to get comfortable. Throughout the telling of the story he relates experiences he, his father, and his grandfather have had, as well as the lessons he was taught. He expresses that since Charley Best got comfortable in a dangerous and unfamiliar place he has not been able to get comfortable due to his wound. Contextual:This story or groups of stories are my kind of stories. The reason I like this is because it’s relevant to my life right now. In woodshop there is a rule not to get distracted or goof while using or being near the machines, basically not to get comfortable. It’s not just in the woodshop though, it’s throughout the school. It’s because when we get comfortable we become lazy, forgetful, and sometimes sleepy, letting ourselves forget homework or even just not do our work efficiently. It’s almost as if in order to get somewhere in life you always have to be focused and doing something. Content:A) The author says that his grandfather was lucky to have a job in 1934 because that was right in the middle of the Great Depression. During which work, money, and even food was hard to come by. B) Charley Best's story eventually folds out and basically it can be said that he agreed with Naton's father in that he should have been more careful and not have gotten so comfortable. Along with the other stories they told how and Why they will never get comfortable in unknown settings. G) Leslie's point is that he as well as his father was taught growing up about not getting comfortable or careless in dangerous or possibly dangerous places. Like how he got to comfortable and distracted while on a ladder and feel back and got hurt. It could be interpreted that he thinks we as a society forget to pay attention to the task at hand and look everywhere else due to being too comfortable and seemingly carefree. Strategy and Style:H) People always understand one another better through the sharing of experiences and stories. Leslie tells about his and his father’s experiences to show a variety of times when becoming too comfortable can end badly, if he hadn’t included the experiences, the reader, who at times can be dumb, might just think that you don’t want to get comfortable around other people. K) It’s true that physically at a glance the tales that the Author has been inserting don’t match up, but philosophically they do. The Author uses the tales to show how the main story of Charley Best actually affected their lives growing up. Where Charley got comfortable in a possibly dangerous place and got hurt, it told them that they need to do the same, even though at times they still made that very same mistake.
Abstract: Naton Leslie tells the story of a railroad detective by the name of Charley Best. Charley worked during the 1920s on the narrow-gauge lines between Pittsburgh and Northwestern Pennsylvania. The story had been passed down from Naton's grandfather to his father. Naton's father and grandfather both worked jobs that required them to be up really high off the ground or to hang off cliffs and bridges. This is why Naton learned that in places of danger one has to make sure not to get comfortable. Throughout the telling of the story he relates experiences he, his father, and his grandfather have had, as well as the lessons he was taught. He expresses that since Charley Best got comfortable in a dangerous and unfamiliar place he has not been able to get comfortable due to his wound.
Contextual: This story or groups of stories are my kind of stories. The reason I like this is because it’s relevant to my life right now. In woodshop there is a rule not to get distracted or goof while using or being near the machines, basically not to get comfortable. It’s not just in the woodshop though, it’s throughout the school. It’s because when we get comfortable we become lazy, forgetful, and sometimes sleepy, letting ourselves forget homework or even just not do our work efficiently. It’s almost as if in order to get somewhere in life you always have to be focused and doing something.
Content: A) The author says that his grandfather was lucky to have a job in 1934 because that was right in the middle of the Great Depression. During which work, money, and even food was hard to come by.
B) Charley Best's story eventually folds out and basically it can be said that he agreed with Naton's father in that he should have been more careful and not have gotten so comfortable. Along with the other stories they told how and
Why they will never get comfortable in unknown settings.
G) Leslie's point is that he as well as his father was taught growing up about not getting comfortable or careless in dangerous or possibly dangerous places. Like how he got to comfortable and distracted while on a ladder and feel back and got hurt. It could be interpreted that he thinks we as a society forget to pay attention to the task at hand and look everywhere else due to being too comfortable and seemingly carefree.
Strategy and Style: H) People always understand one another better through the sharing of experiences and stories. Leslie tells about his and his father’s experiences to show a variety of times when becoming too comfortable can end badly, if he hadn’t included the experiences, the reader, who at times can be dumb, might just think that you don’t want to get comfortable around other people.
K) It’s true that physically at a glance the tales that the Author has been inserting don’t match up, but philosophically they do. The Author uses the tales to show how the main story of Charley Best actually affected their lives growing up. Where Charley got comfortable in a possibly dangerous place and got hurt, it told them that they need to do the same, even though at times they still made that very same mistake.