Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Part 3 - First Half:
The narrator talks about how the system tells us to imitate our teachers to get good grades.  I agree with this because for every teacher they have different rules of how to do things like writing papers.  We have to follow them for that specific teacher or else they comment on our papers saying we did not do good.  Do you agree with that narrator? Is there no rom for originality in the schooling system?

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Part 2:


"Hume says, then one must logically conclude that both "nature" and "nature's laws" are creations of our own imagination."  This concept of everything just being in our imagination has come up over and over again our readings.  What do you think about this concept? Is everything really in our imagination or is there logical reasoning for things?

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Part 1:

I feel like there were two stories taking place at the same time.  there was the present time where the narrator is traveling on his bike and then there is the story of Phaedrus.  I am not that much interested in motorcycles so the story of Phaedrus kept me hooked onto the book.  I was confused about the part where the narrator talks about how he was in the hospital and that whole experience.  The narrator says "I see things with my own eyes, and I see things with his eyes too.  He once owned them."  From this passage i came to the conclusion that he is Phaedrus.  The narrator according to me has a split personality.  What conclusion did you come up with after reading this part?