My concept paper is about the topic of marriage, so in order to get a start on understanding and explaining the concept of marriage I'm going to attempt to "bust" the cliche "LOVE IS BLIND."
Here we go!
Deconstructing: The saying "love is blind" assumes that love creates this false reality in your mind that tells you to ignore the faults and flaws in another person or the relationship itself. Maybe it doesn't even tell you to ignore them, maybe you never saw them to begin with. I find this hard to believe. When we make a choice to love another, sometimes we also choose to filter out what we don't want to see so we can focus on what suits us. This implies that we put on this "blindness," and therefore it is not a result of being in love, but a result of our projection on the other person and our desire for a "perfect", albeit false reality. Love itself is unpredictable because humans are unpredictable.
New Definition: Love is a series of choices and unpredictable moments that reflect our emotional attachment and affect our psyche with the intent of drawing us closer to those we love.
Whew! That was difficult! :)
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Learning to "Flow" with "Telescoping"
This my basic sentence that I will attempt to "telescope" with: Shelia dragged the heavy box across the yard.
Zoom 1: Shelia dragged the heavy box across the yard, the box laden with seven years of memories from a job that no longer existed.
Zoom 2: Shelia dragged the heavy box across the yard, the box laden with seven years of memories from a job that no longer existed, memories that both hurt and soothed her battered soul.
Panning: Shelia dragged the heavy box across the yard, the box laden with seven years of memories from a job that no longer existed, memories that both hurt and soothed her battered soul, while John stood unsmiling at the open door.
Panning w/Zoom: Shelia dragged the heavy box across the yard, the box laden with seven years of memories from a job that no longer existed, memories that both hurt and soothed her battered soul, while John stood unsmiling at the open door, the door a silent symbol of opportunities undiscovered.
Zoom 1: Shelia dragged the heavy box across the yard, the box laden with seven years of memories from a job that no longer existed.
Zoom 2: Shelia dragged the heavy box across the yard, the box laden with seven years of memories from a job that no longer existed, memories that both hurt and soothed her battered soul.
Panning: Shelia dragged the heavy box across the yard, the box laden with seven years of memories from a job that no longer existed, memories that both hurt and soothed her battered soul, while John stood unsmiling at the open door.
Panning w/Zoom: Shelia dragged the heavy box across the yard, the box laden with seven years of memories from a job that no longer existed, memories that both hurt and soothed her battered soul, while John stood unsmiling at the open door, the door a silent symbol of opportunities undiscovered.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Humbling Lens of Second Person
I am searching for key phrases that both shock the reader and communicate the purpose of the writing with the use of "you" language. Here are some phrases I found from excerpts in Adios, Strunk and White.
"you are exposed to things like this all the time," " you know this already," "you rely instead on a general immunity that only numbness can provide," "the ultimate reaches of your soul on permanent remote." ~Phrases like this still shock us, even though they state what we already know we do, because while we know we drift through life with this "numbness," we are mostly unaware how frequently we are unaffected by that which should affect us.
"attention lavished on you," "your greed and vanities and quest for self-fulfillment," "you want and want and want." ~It is shocking to be told how self-absorbed you are, but that seems to be the writer's intent.
"Yell...Don't....Learn....Crave....Do.....Develop....Turn....think...Marry...Go...discover...Finish...Divorce...Take,"
~All of these command verbs imply the "you." The writer wants you to understand the woman by leading you through a timeline of her life as if it were your own. As it mentions in the text, it is easier to sympathize with her because you are placing yourself in her shoes. This is the writer's intention, because she believes that readers will not be able to understand Clark in other terms than as a prosecutor.
Here is a biography about someone in my life written in the second person.
You don't even know how many people hate you. You walk through this world as if it were made for you, and every other person is there to cater to your every whim and desire. You do stop to consider how your actions and words will help or hurt those around you, but you don't care if it hinders you from getting what you want. A single-minded determination suffocates all other human emotion within you. You are a doer, a go-getter, a trampler, a machine. You are delusional because you think your skill at intimidation is akin to respect.
"you are exposed to things like this all the time," " you know this already," "you rely instead on a general immunity that only numbness can provide," "the ultimate reaches of your soul on permanent remote." ~Phrases like this still shock us, even though they state what we already know we do, because while we know we drift through life with this "numbness," we are mostly unaware how frequently we are unaffected by that which should affect us.
"attention lavished on you," "your greed and vanities and quest for self-fulfillment," "you want and want and want." ~It is shocking to be told how self-absorbed you are, but that seems to be the writer's intent.
"Yell...Don't....Learn....Crave....Do.....Develop....Turn....think...Marry...Go...discover...Finish...Divorce...Take,"
~All of these command verbs imply the "you." The writer wants you to understand the woman by leading you through a timeline of her life as if it were your own. As it mentions in the text, it is easier to sympathize with her because you are placing yourself in her shoes. This is the writer's intention, because she believes that readers will not be able to understand Clark in other terms than as a prosecutor.
Here is a biography about someone in my life written in the second person.
You don't even know how many people hate you. You walk through this world as if it were made for you, and every other person is there to cater to your every whim and desire. You do stop to consider how your actions and words will help or hurt those around you, but you don't care if it hinders you from getting what you want. A single-minded determination suffocates all other human emotion within you. You are a doer, a go-getter, a trampler, a machine. You are delusional because you think your skill at intimidation is akin to respect.
Hello. My name is Julie and I am a senior at the University of Southern Indiana. I have just changed my major to Secondary education in English, and I hope to succeed in the program and graduate by the Fall of 2009. I have lived in Indiana for the past year after moving from Johnson City, TN where I attended East Tennessee State University. I have been married for almost two years to my husband, Ben, who works at a local automotive dealership. I work part-time as a pharmacy technician at a local drugstore.
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