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They themselves are interwoven into the reality that they critique.
Shark Net. The indiscriminate tragedies that take place in the authors
suggests that we do not see things as they are, but rather that we
them as we are.
‘sense’ this partially because our eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin
can only tell what’s there to the best of their ability. If a person has
been blind their whole life they will not be able to comprehend that
there might be a world more than their own four senses perceive in
their immediate time and space. In contrast, a person with full eye
more complicated than we can even perceive, let alone make sense
of. We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. We see
implicate that illusion into as a sort of part reality. The parable of the
"blind men and an elephant" may help to explain this. In this story,
each blind man felt a different part of an elephant (trunk, leg, ear,
etc.). All the men claimed to understand and explain the true
cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch
prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the
perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen
by the prisoners. Similarly, we may see something and believe it to
be what is, when really, it is just a shadow of its true self. We do not
see things as they are, we see things as we are. We see things as well
prejudices and the meaning we illicit from this raw data. Assuming
Since the abilities of the mind are perfectly relative and multi-
be said that humanity has reached the truth on any afore ascribed
criminal was to service your car at a repair shop, you might feel a
your judgment, you might believe that he will do a poor job in fixing
Shared realities that are both perceived and understood in the same
same speech as Jesse Jackson . Even if they apply the very same
perception and insight into the same task as one another and follow
lip and palate which affects the clarity of his speech. He may not be
The Shark Net illustrates the nature of human reality after the family
arrived safely in Perth with her children and ‘perked up’ she is able
with some humor. She waves round an imaginary crutch and makes
the story amusing so that her husband and friends laugh (p.31). The
impression she gives of the incident now is quite different from the
way she experienced it at the time when ‘[her] mouth tightened and
she looked like she was going to cry again’ (p.28). Now, Dorothy
reality. She did not see things as they are, she saw things as she is.
Written Explanation
that that this is the product of the limits of our perception, insight
The language and English choices of the Shark Net were not taken
written.
choices removed from the texts. This included emulating the writing
professional.