Opinion

When someone asks you a question, most usually give an answer that shows his or her opinions. Now, when someone asks you your view of certain novels and ask a large ambiguous question about literary devices, you let your opinion out. Opinions are not right or wrong, but trying to make your opinion seem like the only correct one, well this is just dumb. No opinion is right or wrong, it is an opinion, a personal idea that you have.
Now the thing that has always gotten on my nerves, an "opinion" that I have gotten over the years is that people who try to act exceedingly intelligent, are usually the most ignorant. To talk about specific topics and begin them off in a nice gentle conversation and then turn it into a debate is not the best thing to do, especially when the person who you were conversing with.
I had just dealt with this situation the other day and it really is upsetting. First of all, I was not in the mood to debate. Second of all, I was tired and would have rather had a nice conversation about favorite styles of books rather than debating whether the use of symbolism or literary devices were used in all books. My opinion on this is that most books or novels contain some type of symbolism or literary devices. These things might not be the most apparent part of the work, but there might just be a sentence or even a phrase.
That is what I said in my conversation, but the other started to come back with historical books and biographies etc. It seemed they just wanted to prove me wrong with my idea that every piece of writing has symbolism. If the cover has a flag on it, then guess what, that is symbolizing something in the novel or if there is a picture showing something that happened, that is also symbolizing something.
Words are not the only way to show symbolism. One just has to be creative with everything to make sure it comes across.
So I guess the moral of the little blog is: Don't think your opinion is the correct one, because everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. And don't try to debate all the time with a person, because it gets a little annoying and no one will want to be around you if you just randomly start debates. Sometimes people just want to converse calmly on a subject they enjoy.