The part of Chapter 2: Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion
that caught my eye was the section about how the act of communion can bring you
together or even make you overcome real hang-up’s, whether it be over a dinner,
a cigarette, or an alcoholic beverage. The sense of communion can help you
overlook the judgement.
My Netflix addiction is starting to
get dangerous considering it has been keeping me from my summer homework and
distracting my twenty-four seven, but also in some kind of way it has helped me
to make a better connection to this chapter. I started a new Netflix series
about 2 months ago called, Greek. (This series has actually been about my
twentieth one). It is about all about a couple of college kids who attend
Cyprus-Rhodes University in Ohio that participate in the school’s Greek system.
One of the main characters, Rusty, is in the competitive engineer program and
also tries to juggle Greek life. His roommate, Dale, and a hardcore Christian,
is strictly against the Greek system, their unethical behavior, their
undeserved privilege, and their obnoxious parties. Rusty’s “big brother” of his
fraternity and Dale often go head to head many times. Dale and Rusty get in a
huge fight one day about Dale’s soon to be roommate once Rusty moves out to
live in the Kappa Tao Gamma House (Rusty’s fraternity). Dale shows up to a
raging Kappa Tao party to talk and work things out with Rusty when he comes
across Cappie, Rusty’s fraternity big brother. They eventually become cornered
and are forced to talk to each other where they share a drink, which is
extremely out of the box for Dale considering he doesn’t do ANYTHING bad, like
at all. The two talk for a while and eventually discover they have so many
things in common (even if they were drunk). They even start to call the pair of
themselves Chip and Dale.
Another
group of people who figure out their differences are the Omega Chi Delta and
Calvin. Calvin, one of Rusty’s first friends in college, is a closeted gay who
unexpectedly comes out in the second season. The fraternities president, Evan
Chambers, who is completely okay with Calvin’s sexuality show a peace offering
by inviting the whole fraternity to dinner. There they eat and chat and become
more comfortable with Calvin and the idea with him living in an all guy house,
even though he has never made advances toward them. Their problem gets resolved
through an everyday act. The fraternity sees that Calvin does everyday stuff
just like they do, such as eat dinner and play sports. It is funny how
something that seems so complex can be resolved by such simplicity.
This
chapter teaches you many things, don’t judged a book by its cover (oh the
irony) and if you have a problem with someone, take them to dinner first. It
just might change your prospective.
