Inquiry Paper
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” ~ Virginia Woolf. For a spider the web is the key part of her existence, spun through individual silk, piece by piece it eventually connects together to form a web that provides life for the spider, a new start. Though weaved with care it does have its limitations in strength, weak and miniature bugs will get caught, but the powerful and big will destroy the web. Incidentally, while reading Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion”, Paulo Coelho’s “The winner stands alone”, I begin to question what the purpose in reading is? Tired of flipping through pages and pages of words I can see a glimmer of light as the end …show more content…
A spider can tell a story from the web she creates; just by watching the spider weave her web, the species of the spider can be shown by the design and steps she takes to make the web, like you learn the personality of a character by reading about his story. Watching her web unfold, unveils mystery and completing missing parts that eventually become a magnificent piece of art like a plot of a book has its introduction, conflict, climax, and resolution. Almost every story has a main character that the story focuses on that shows more about the character as the story progresses. In Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion” the main character, Patrick, to me in the beginning was a shy and good man and I could not think of him being someone who would seek revenge. He didn’t share much about himself and would shy away from others “he did not trust either himself or these strangers of another language enough to be able to step forward and join them”( In the Skin of a Lion 22), but near the middle of the story Patrick’s change of character shocked me when he said “I am wanted by the police … For willful destruction of property” (170). This was said after Patrick had blown up the Muskoka hotel in attempt for revenge for his love Alica. I could not believe Patrick was capable of doing something so bad even if it were for someone he loved. A story has to start somewhere a reason for its beginning usually from a conflict that arises. In Paulo Coelho’s …show more content…
Literature holds many benefits to the reader as does a spider web benefits the spider. These features of a spider web are similar to the benefits we receive from reading books. When we watch a spider weave her web and see her web unfold, we can tell the species of the spider and see a masterpiece at work, the same way we read a book and see the changing of a character as the plot of the story reaches its climax. The potential strength of a spider web is as strong as iron, but holds weakness towards a bigger and possible weaker entity, just like how reading with a Marxist lens can challenge and affirm bourgeoisie’s values. The process the spider makes her web requires her to connect her silk to multiple objects to keep it in the air and to other silk to form her spider web, in the same way making connections while reading can help clear up missing points of a story and uncover truths of what the author is writing
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” ~ Virginia Woolf. For a spider the web is the key part of her existence, spun through individual silk, piece by piece it eventually connects together to form a web that provides life for the spider, a new start. Though weaved with care it does have its limitations in strength, weak and miniature bugs will get caught, but the powerful and big will destroy the web. Incidentally, while reading Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion”, Paulo Coelho’s “The winner stands alone”, I begin to question what the purpose in reading is? Tired of flipping through pages and pages of words I can see a glimmer of light as the end …show more content…
A spider can tell a story from the web she creates; just by watching the spider weave her web, the species of the spider can be shown by the design and steps she takes to make the web, like you learn the personality of a character by reading about his story. Watching her web unfold, unveils mystery and completing missing parts that eventually become a magnificent piece of art like a plot of a book has its introduction, conflict, climax, and resolution. Almost every story has a main character that the story focuses on that shows more about the character as the story progresses. In Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion” the main character, Patrick, to me in the beginning was a shy and good man and I could not think of him being someone who would seek revenge. He didn’t share much about himself and would shy away from others “he did not trust either himself or these strangers of another language enough to be able to step forward and join them”( In the Skin of a Lion 22), but near the middle of the story Patrick’s change of character shocked me when he said “I am wanted by the police … For willful destruction of property” (170). This was said after Patrick had blown up the Muskoka hotel in attempt for revenge for his love Alica. I could not believe Patrick was capable of doing something so bad even if it were for someone he loved. A story has to start somewhere a reason for its beginning usually from a conflict that arises. In Paulo Coelho’s …show more content…
Literature holds many benefits to the reader as does a spider web benefits the spider. These features of a spider web are similar to the benefits we receive from reading books. When we watch a spider weave her web and see her web unfold, we can tell the species of the spider and see a masterpiece at work, the same way we read a book and see the changing of a character as the plot of the story reaches its climax. The potential strength of a spider web is as strong as iron, but holds weakness towards a bigger and possible weaker entity, just like how reading with a Marxist lens can challenge and affirm bourgeoisie’s values. The process the spider makes her web requires her to connect her silk to multiple objects to keep it in the air and to other silk to form her spider web, in the same way making connections while reading can help clear up missing points of a story and uncover truths of what the author is writing