Lighting the Darkness in Though

I want to start out by saying "deep"..... not so much. I have been struggling with what my driving question should be for days now. I have had no idea what it should be and I had little idea of what a driving question even was. Sad right? These are some of my past driving questions out of the ones I've even seriously considered. My thoughts are really simple in the way they're phrased. Like this one. "Maybe I could relate my life to the kid in the book's life". Or this one. "What if I write about what happens in the book and analyze that with an American perspective". Latter I though about comparing events in Cuba (World History) to events in the U.S. (U.S. History), but then I realized how much lamer could you possibly get than that. Whats really sad is that this was going to be my driving question until today I had some idea's that might actually not make me fall asleep while writing.

Today in class I had what seemed to be a breakthrough and by in class I mean in history, half-way through it, with no previous good ideas. What's sad is right now I'm having trouble even remembering what that idea is. Oh ok, some how I just remembered. I actually left this page open up on my computer, ate dinner, came back to my computer, and then suddenly remembered. I was going to separate the line between fiction and reality, but try to make it interesting to people other than just me. I actually like this idea because the line between reality and fiction can be debated so heavily. Goldfarb, Zack, Allan, or anyone else don't even think about writing a comment that like "the line between fiction and reality is easily distinguishable" because I know if anyone ever reads this they'll be thinking of writing something like that.

This was my idea, my "driving question" until about an hour ago when I was reading the book. I know it may be a shock to some people and others may not even believe this, but I do read every book were assigned. I actually re-read "The Old Man and The Sea", questionably the worst and most boring book ever written, when Mrs. Koch assigned it in 8th grade. For thoughs of you who liked that book I guess you really enjoy reading about old people fishing in a boat talking to themselves. If you enjoyed this book I guess you also enjoyed "Cast Away" because its entertaining to watch Tom Hanks go crazy on an un-inhabited island and talk to Wilson, the volleyball. Back to the point I've decided to put my critiquing skills to work. I am going to critique the book and relate it to other movies, books, songs, basically anything I can think of.

In conclusion my driving questions is "How do the people and events in Waiting for Snow in Havana relate to both the present and the past?" One Word, Beast.

Please comment on whether this is a good driving question and about whether you found my writing boring at times or something like that. I mean you people have to comment about something. I'm just making it easier by telling you what to comment about.