Why Readers Disagree Analysis

In Tim Parks’ “Why Readers Disagree”, Parks argues that great art helps the audience to pay tributes to their old perspective. Parks mentioned the theory of “system theorists see people as constantly taking the position developed within the family into the larger world” in his essay, and he agreed with it. This theory highlights how people take their positions developed over time within smaller communities into the greater ones. This action is what caused the difference between people’s perspective. And now, how can art relate to that? “Dostoevsky is always and immediately enthralling for me. The question of whether and how far to side with good or evil, with renunciation or indulgence, grabs me at once and takes me straight back to my adolescence”, …show more content…
And yes, that is a worthwhile idea, but at the same time, Bryan Appleyard also thinks that great art needs to be alternating audiences’ perspective of the world. Appleyard stated in his essay that “the point (of 9/11) is to show how the vent was so momentous that it changed the past.” For Bryan Appleyard considers 9/11 as art, he highlights that 9/11 is a tribute to American’s old perspective on the America – country of “wealth and power”. This example supports Tim Parks’ argument, but with limitation. Appleyard considered 9/11 as it “alternated the way we see things”. This quote supported this idea by illustrating how perspective-alternating 9/11 is and also the reason why Appleyard consider 9/11 as a work of art. In addition to that, Appleyard used Damien Hirst’s quote to support his idea. “The thing about 9/11 is that it’s kind of an artwork in its own right. It was wicked, but was devised in this way for this kind of impact. It was devised visually.” Hirst also considers 9/11 as an artwork and devised for the perspective-alternating impact. The kind of impact 9/11 has here of alternating people’s perspective by questing the values of humanity, shapes the audience’s perspective after seeing the