The Man Who Played Violin in a Subway Reading Questions

In a commonplace environment at an unexpected hour, I feel like we perceive beauty as something that you can relate to or as something that attracts attention. I think this for several different reasons. One of them being that in the article that I just read, the only people who noticed Bell were the people who recognized him or were past violinists that were able to connect with hime and who realized that the pieces Bell were playing were really good. A reason why I think we may perceive beauty as something that attracts attention is because the more people there are watching something, it will make other passerbyers wonder what the crowd is for. For example in the article, it said that the Washington Post was at first worried about how if a group started to gather by Bell, then more and more people would clump up, and then before they knew it, there would be huge traffic jams, and the police would be called and all that sort of stuff. Another example is when I was in Burlington, Vermont walking along a Galleria type area. Just after we got ice cream, there was a hug crowd down the street. It made us curious, so we went do there to check it out. It turns out that it was two guys who were doing crazy flips and stuff and throwing knives and stuff like that. When you think about knife throwing, beauty doesn't come to mind, but because a huge crowd was there, the curiosity of people around it will make it beauty.

I do not think that we stop to appreciate beauty enough. I think that this is because these days, there are so many distractions that we do not stop and think about how truly amazing or inspiring something is. An example of this is a kid walking through a museum on his phone or something like that. I also think that time is a huge reason as to why we do not perceive beauty enough. In the article that we read, a person who had a break from work stopped and listened to Bell play. However, the other people were so busy, that they did not even pause, much less look, to admire Bell and the beauty in his music.

I think that it is definitely possible to recognize the talent in an unexpected context. That is because I think that their are enough creative and imaginable minds in our world who would recognize talent without context. I also think that people in our world can make connections pretty easily.

I think that if we can't even stop to notice one of the best musicians in the world playing one of the best pieces ever written, then I think that we are missing a lot of other things. For all we know, we could be missing the solution to world hunger, or pollution, or reversing global warming. I also think that if we all learned to notice things like Bell and his music than we would all be a lot more appreciative about stuff in our world.