Tuesday, February 22, 2011

God is to Earth; as author is to book. The powerful relationship

God is to Earth; as author is to book, with information being most valuable, to both the reader in the midst of story, and to the person in reality.However, to the person in reality, the author has only limited power, since the author can only fully appeal to the reader's senses, to intern affect one's personal views. Although, once the reader undertakes the task of interpreting the author's work he/she will undoubtedly incorporate his/her own views, before arriving at a final conclusion.
A broad example would be The Things They Carried, the novel itself. Simply because no one, in Truth Lies and Lit, was in the Vietnam War so, therefore, can not Know it. We have merely been informed of its occurrence, just so that We Might understand the Gravity of its consequence. however, Through gaining knowledge of This war We gain the ability to make inferences, that remain ours. By recognizing the Secondary nature of our educated guesses, or "claiming our claims" we are also able to recognize what we cannot Know. This notion coveys a distant relationship between our literal selves and the material. In other words, the literal, you reading about something that, the literal, you have never experienced displaces, the literal, you, while simultaneously engaging you, the reader, and allows you, the reader, to experience the event with a heightened awareness of the context, otherwise unobtainable.

1 comment:

  1. I think I can see what you are trying to evoke here, but an explicit example from one or two of the texts we've read thus far this semester would help to illustrate your discussion here to its greatest effect.

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