In the reading, “Learning to be me” the narrator lives in a world where a small, dark jewel is implanted in each person’s head when they are born. The purpose of the jewel was to “eavesdrop” on the original brain and learn how to take it’s place eventually, when the patient undergoes “the switch”. In the beginning of the story, the narrator expresses his concerns about “the switch”, fearing that when his brain is taken, he will disappear. But as the story continues, the narrator finds himself losing control of the body and he makes the connection that he is the jewel instead of the brain. This scene poses the question, “Were the jewel and the brain in fact two separate selves before they diverged?”.
The jewel and the brain were indeed two
The jewel and the brain were indeed two