Perception As critical thinking individuals we are given the power of choice and free will; the ability to decide if we prefer the left path or the right dictating our journeys as we grow older in knowledge and mind. Choices that are customized to reflect directly on our values, morals and beliefs; like a descriptive manuscript written in stone which depicts who we are in the depths of our personal abyss, stating what makes us different than others around us. But what happens when our sense of moral is tested, when a conflict so great challenges our understanding of who we are; and we are made to pick one of two lesser evils. A switch goes off immediately which makes us question the decision to be made in terms of everything we stand for and
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In Le Guin’s essay from the beginning we can understand that it is a descriptive narrative with an unknown purpose that starts by describing the setting where the narrative is to unfold with the use of powerful metaphors; stating, “With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city of Omelas, bright-towered by the sea” (1). The word “clamor” is defined as a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people which is metaphorically comparing the loud sounds of people to the calm and collective sounds of an ordinary bell; in other words, we receive a vivid image of sound that we can connect to the sound of bells, and similar sounds that might have disturbed or caught our ear at some point in our lives; we also understand that the sound is imposed by the city in eager wait for the “Festival of Summer” and that citizens have no control over this event. In the book “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson the main idea is how metaphors are used to give a deeper and wider meaning to writing with the comparison of two unrelated things that cant be connected by thinking outside of the box. One of the many examples given in their book is, “You’re running out of time” (9). The idea here is the comparison of two things to create new meaning to text and in Le Guin’s essay the metaphors are used to create the environment so that we get and understanding of the cities “perfection”. Le Guin states, “The air of morning was so clear that the snow still crowing the Eighteeen Peaks burned with white-gold fire across the miles of sunlit air, under the dark blue of the sky” (1). The first thing that comes out to me is the comparison of the air,
In Le Guin’s essay from the beginning we can understand that it is a descriptive narrative with an unknown purpose that starts by describing the setting where the narrative is to unfold with the use of powerful metaphors; stating, “With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city of Omelas, bright-towered by the sea” (1). The word “clamor” is defined as a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people which is metaphorically comparing the loud sounds of people to the calm and collective sounds of an ordinary bell; in other words, we receive a vivid image of sound that we can connect to the sound of bells, and similar sounds that might have disturbed or caught our ear at some point in our lives; we also understand that the sound is imposed by the city in eager wait for the “Festival of Summer” and that citizens have no control over this event. In the book “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson the main idea is how metaphors are used to give a deeper and wider meaning to writing with the comparison of two unrelated things that cant be connected by thinking outside of the box. One of the many examples given in their book is, “You’re running out of time” (9). The idea here is the comparison of two things to create new meaning to text and in Le Guin’s essay the metaphors are used to create the environment so that we get and understanding of the cities “perfection”. Le Guin states, “The air of morning was so clear that the snow still crowing the Eighteeen Peaks burned with white-gold fire across the miles of sunlit air, under the dark blue of the sky” (1). The first thing that comes out to me is the comparison of the air,