Imitation+-+Who+Goes+There

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__Imitations__ by: Ambrianna Echols, Danielle Griffin, and Sharina Walton Even though imitations have gone on for ages, they can be either good or bad. The good things about imitations are when people imitate other people like their role model. The bad things about imitations is the fact that you're doing it for your benefit, but also knowing that you are hurting someone in the process. There can be two point of views for imitations, it just depends on how you look at it. Some good ways you can imitate another person is by trying to be just like them. For example, if your role model is DJ Shockley you would practice football more and try to become a better player than him. By becoming a better player, you benefit from your hard work. You could get a great scholarship to a great college. See, imitations can be good if you can benefit from them. Some bad imitations happen at school in clicks (mainly high school). People in clicks think it's cute and funny to imitate others, but really you're hurting their feelings. For example, when a cheerleader looks down on other people and think they're better than others and think just because someone doesn't look or dress like them they are wierd or ugly. People come in all shapes and sizes and nobody lookas the same as another or else the world would be boring. It hurts people to think that someone is making fun of them all because they don't look or dress a certain way, As you have read, there are different types of imitations. You may hurt people even if you don't really mean to.
 * 4th Block**

Weirdhigg:** When The Thing imitates life forms it is trying to distract the crew so it canfufill the "**ultimate goal**". It's "goal" is to get to the mainland and populate the Earth. But this is only what the crew of Big Magnet thinks, though it may not be the true goal. The goal chosen by the readers with some thought that it's true goal is just to get off of the planet and (hopefully) back to it's own. The crew is just incredibly paranoid because of it's looks.
 * 5th Block

Sometimes, imitations __can__ be better than the original. For instance,if you like the taste of onions, but you hate the smell, then someone could create an imitation onion that tastes like an onion but doesn't smell like one. But if you needed an imitation to cover for someone, but the imitaton can think for itself, then it could make bad decisions and ruin the original's life. So depending on the situation, having imitations could be good or bad.

In the story “Who goes there?” one of the many themes we’ve discussed is imitations, such as why Campbell uses this theme and how we see them in real life. One thing about imitations is that they can be good or bad depending on the situation they’re used in. Can imitations ever be as good as the original, why are imitations made to start with? Is Campbell trying to tell us something? These statements and questions came up during our discussion on imitations, so we’re going to try to give some answers to the questions and reply to the statements. Campbell’s messages are not always clear, but you can usually grasp a general idea of why he writes the things he does. Campbell uses imitations to pull in the reader and make the story more interesting for the readers. Imitations are used at times so one can adapt and fit in with the world, which is necessary for us to survive even though we don’t really know it, just as the Thing in Campbell’s story is imitating a person so it can survive in this strange, new planet that it knows nothing about. So, in a way Campbell is trying to tell us through the form of the story that we imitate each other as a way of adapting to fit into the world and society as we know it. This poses the question whether imitations are good or bad. This depends on the purpose the imitation has once it’s been made. If the imitation is being used to help with a problem of sorts, then the imitation would be good. However if it were being used as part of a plan to do some horrible crime or something of the sorts it would of course be a bad imitation. It all basically depends on the purpose that it’s maker gives it, so the imitation being good or bad also depends on how the person, or thing in the story’s case, chooses to use it. In “Who goes there?” the people in the camp believe it’s trying to take over the world through the form of imitations until it’s completely taken over everyone and everything on the Earth. Imitations could also be better than the original, if certain things are modified or enhanced to make them better of course. Of course this also depends on who makes the imitation, an imitation could be better than the original if modified and such, or it couldn’t because of any flaws during the imitating process, or just turn out the exact same as the original. Upon those conditions an imitation could never become better than the original thing. So again, this is dependant on the situation if whether or not an imitation can be better than the original. So then, why make imitations, why do we need them if they could be bad, or if they could be the same or even worse than the original? Imitations are made everyday in fact, whether we know it or not so that a person, or as in the story a Thing of sorts, can adapt to life and survive both at the same time. Imitations can also help creation in a way, by creating imitations we have the chance to enhance them to make ourselves and other things better in life. They’re made so that life is easier to get through with, so that if we make mistakes with ourselves or anything else we have something relatively fresh to start with, almost like 2nd chances really. So to pull it all together imitations is a theme in the story with reasons ranging from Campbell passing messages to us discovering that we imitate each other every day. Campbell uses imitations to pass on the message that we imitate every day, whether we know it or not. Imitations can be good or bad depending on the purposes of the person or thing who made them. Imitations can and can’t be better than the original, this depends on if the imitation is flawed, the same, or enhanced and modified. Imitations can be made for many different reasons, some of which others may never think of to be truthful. Imitations is a big thing both in “Who goes there?” and in our lives, so it’s really important that we know about them, probably another reason that Campbell has brought them up in the story.
 * CrazeSus142011:**
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I agree with both of the groups on how imitations can be better then the original.Like how 5th period brung out how that in the original may have a flaw in it so the one who makes the imitation can delete that flaw from the imitation and make it better than the 1st. Also with 4th period how they brung out dat imitations arent always for the best. For example if there is a big brother and he/she is doing or saying something bad and his/her little brother/sister sees them doing that wrong thing it would be wrong for the little brother or sister to go around and to imitate what his or her big brother/sister did.Not only would the older brother/sister be in the wrong place by saying or doing what was bad around the younger brother or sister but also the little one by repeating what was said.
 * BB-Blue**

I don’t agree with the groups about how an imitation can be better than an original. Yes, imitations can fix flaws in the original, but the fact that are what they are, imitations (I think) makes them of lesser quality to an original. In art, there are always the pieces of work that are revered as greatness. These pieces are usually put on display in an art museum or gallery for the viewing public and they are, of course the originals. If someone could see the original in an art displaying, there is always the option of finding a copy or imitation of the original for their viewing pleasure. Though it looks the same and posses the same qualities as the original it merely is not. Thus, an imitation can not be better or even as good as the original.
 * mospam**

I agree with both of the groups that imitations can be better than an original. If the imitation has deleted the flaws then it can become better. When new technology is released it is usually modified version of the original. Since the technology has been modified it generally is much better. When fourth block said that if your role model is DJ Shockley it would make you want to practice to become a better athlete than him. That reminds me of the Michael Jordan commercials from a couple years back that stated "I'm going to be better than you because of you." That means the boy is going to better than Michael Jordan because he watched him play. This is the same with technology because it imitates the previous model and becomes better than it. Imitations can become better than the original if it learns from the mistakes that the original has made. Learning from mistakes is very important because it wouldn't be a point for the imitation to repeate the same mistakes as the original
 * Mikal15**