December 13, 2013

This post is being written very late because the class history went missing. It is still missing. To whomever has it, SERIOUSLY, PUT IT IN THE FOLDER. If you want to keep yourself anonymous, go ahead! Neither Tailer nor I care how it gets returned! If you gave it to one of us directly, we wouldn't say anything negative!  We would just like to be able to type up the class history. Please, check your folders and make sure you did not take it home with your Napoleon packet.
Speaking of the Napoleon packet, that is what we worked on. We worked on finishing the Napoleon packet which ended with Mr. P. explaining some very important quotes.
 The two quotes were:

“Everything is soon forgotten except the opinion we leave imprinted in history.”

 “There is no immorality then the memory that is left in the minds of men.” 
Mr. P. had told us a story about talking with his grandmother. He  had asked her who her father was, and her grandfather, and her great-grandfather. She remembered names up to a certain point, then she led our teacher out of the house and to the town archives and pointed to a name of one of his ancestors. It had the year he was born, the year he died, and his occupation (a fisherman). Nothing more. The only things that will ever be known about that man was that he was born in a certain year, lived as a fisherman, and died the same year Napoleon died. We know Napoleon's story because he wrote his own memoirs, but does anybody know about Mr. P.'s ancestor? Nope. He was forgotten. He is not immortal, there is no memory of him "left in the minds of men" as there is for Napoleon. That is the greatest difference between Mr. P.'s ancestor and Napoleon. Nobody knows what Mr. P.'s ancestor could have done while on fishing trips (he could have saved the lives of several people for all we know) but almost everybody knows what Napoleon did (or claimed to have done, after all, how do we know if what he wrote was the truth?). Napoleon is immortal, are the rest of us?

-I