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So I have to write a literary analysis about a novel for my English 102 class and I'm using The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. It's only been out a few months since the book was released and I'm having trouble coming up with good literary criticism on the book so I'm taking a slight change of direction on what I'm writing on. It's still related to the book, in a slight stretch, but this is my basic thesis statement that my professor accepted. I know it's a bit bland but I already turned in the research proposal and he accepted it, so I'm going to stick with it instead of trying to come up with something genius.
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein is about Denny, an aspiring race car driver, who believes that life, much like racing, isn’t simply about going fast and by using the techniques and philosophies needed on the race track one can successfully navigate through life's ordeals.
So I've come here to the well of infinite knowledge to all that is racing & life, Grassroots motorsports dot com Message Boards!
Basically what I'm looking for is what have you learned from racing/wrenching/car culture that has helped you in the non-racing related part of your life?
I'll start off the thread with an example I'm using from the book. In the book, Denny, says that when racing in the rain one must manifest what is before you. "If I intentionally make the car do something, then I can predict what it's going to do. In other words, its only unpredictable if i'm not possessing it. So you spin the car before the car spins itself. If I initiate the action then I know it's going to happen before it happens then I can react to it before the car knows it's happening."
In life this can mean that if you can get one step ahead of the potential problem, you'll know how to react to that potential problem before it becomes a real problem.
Too long, didn't read version: Gimme good racing philosophies that can relate to life as well.
Or something like that.
