A Deeper Level

character describes, “we sat there for an hour, maybe two, I don’t know, because it was then that time measured in the ordinary way stopped” (pg.6). Fink begins to use the scenery around the characters as an extension of this non-numerical sense of time as is seen in Behind The Hedge. Recalling a past memory the character does not recall the date or the exact time. She recalls the changing color of her room and the position of the flowers in her garden. For before the main character finds out that the little girl whom she found in her garden has recently been killed she describes the color of the room she is sitting in as “the color of heavy red wine” (pg. 16). Upon hearing the news however the heavy red wine colored walls darken into a deeper shade of red- “of blood” (pg. 20). As she painfully grabs her cane she goes out to her garden. For “it was right here” on that day “among the flowers that were once laid out in formal beds but now grow in a tangled mass that” she “saw that girl” (pg. 21). However, now when the character goes back to this specific spot in her garden “the flowers” now “grow straight, untouched”, there is this sense of progression of time passing. For the flowers are no longer tangled, they are straight and untouched as the girl who once was the cause of their entanglement is now dead. Fink as her book progresses begins to delve further into the role that time plays in these people’s lives. Not only does this time reflect the character, but it is also in…

fantastic public speaker. I was acclaimed for my acting abilities around the school. I thought for once, we’d get over our differences, but things still remained the same. When Joe graduated, he decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and joined the Navy. Unfortunately, due to a medical mix up, he was dishonorably discharged from basic training. This was the beginning of Joe’s even deeper descent into depression. Like history repeating itself, my brother began taking out all of his issues…

Robert asks the narrator if he could describe one to him. The narrator, despite his ability to see the cathedrals on the TV, has obvious difficulties in trying to explain them to Robert. Clumsily trying to describe what he sees on TV and appearing to be stuck for words, the narrator realizes he is unable to describe a cathedral. “I’m sorry, but it looks like that’s the best I can do for you, I’m just not that good at it” (Carver 96). Even though the narrator can see the cathedrals, he cannot…

Craik and Lockhart believed that there were four parts in the development in levels of processing. The first part is that memory has a deeper level than the previous memory. The second part is that by having a deeper level of processing it will cause memory to last longer. Then the third part of the development is that the levels of processing views rehearsal as unimportant because it will only last on average three months and may cause memory to become worse when using shallow memory instead of…

“A reader lives a thousand lives before they die… the one who never reads lives only one.¨ - George R.R. Martin When I found this quote I knew this was the one because he is right. Whenever you read a good book it is like you are living the main character´s life. The written language is one of the main reasons that we are the dominate species on the planet. Reading is extremely important because reading boosts our creativity and imagination; it also helps us understand our world and other…

INTRODUCTION In The Great Gatsby film, Baz Luhrmann attracts his audience through many in depth film techniques. The film techniques of close ups, mid shots and low angle shots allow a modern audience to connect with the protagonist at a deeper level. In the conflict scene between Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, the technique of close up allows the audience to see another side of the main character. The end scene of the film where Gatsby is killed, lets the audience feel empathy for him, but also…

misunderstood due to lack of insight. In the “Cathedral,” the act of looking is identified with physical vision, yet the act of seeing requires a more profound level of engagement. The narrator shows he is capable of looking unlike Robert ,a blind man. With this the narrator feels he is superior to Robert. However, Robert is capable of “seeing” on a deeper level than the narrator. The relationship Robert holds with the narrator’s wife, he may not be able to physically see but he is capable of…

groups. From this course, there are a few different points of discussion that I want to go over. The first point to understand comes from Edgar Schein’s book, Organizational Culture, and Leadership. There are three levels within an organization. According to Schein (2010), “Culture in general can be analyzed at several different levels, with the…

Have you ever wondered about a correct way to read literature? To be honest, there is no correct way to read literature. There are essential elements and strategies that one must employ to gain a deeper level of understanding of a literary text, but being something about correct and wrong in literature, there is none. Leading to this statement would be the question why one should read on a deeper level for which the answer is satisfaction. The satisfaction of gaining a deeper knowledge of the…

The novel mainly uses this technique of disguise: Sheppard ruses as a person who is unconvincing as a murderer. But this masquerade is taken to a higher level as the method of concealment is doubled: the murderer is obscured in the narration itself. How this is achieved is through first-person narration. The reader normally takes the word of mouth from the narrator as the universal truth, but since the narrator himself was the murderer he was able to deceive the reader in a way that bent the…