Marking Period 3 Week 2

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This week, Snyder discusses her choice to move her plants inside as winter moves in, to protect them from the cold and hopefully help her hold on to such greenery and life until the cold leaves in spring. She points out that no matter her intentions to keep watering them and keep them alive, it usually leads to the plants dying due to her forgetfulness. The question then becomes why not just leave the plants outside to die if they will end up dying inside anyways. This brings up her point that "there is a huge difference between negligence and murder, and she goes on to explain that she can "forgive [her] forgetfulness", showing how even though we might fail at something, it really is the effort that counts. By not even trying something, there is no excuse if it ends up not working. Snyder discovers the irony of her solution to put peacock feathers into the pots to replace the flowers, because at first, living things were giving her trouble because she struggled to keep them alive, but then when she thought a non-living product was the answer, it failed because it was not living and therefore could not "reproduce". Therefore, she discusses how what we think may be a great solution can end up leading to more problems to solve.