Visual strategies:
1.Double columns, indicating the “separate”, for a story was spilt with two narrators.
2.Column bridges, suggesting the plots were happening simultaneously, creating a link between the two columns.
3.Repetition, where the “configuration” pushes the character’s psychological flux forward.
4.Description of sound and Printing the stressed sound.
5.Italic is used some parts of the essay
Purpose:
In the essay “ separate kingdom”, a very typical American blue collar family is destructed for the sake of the father’s thumbs’ lost. A series of impact brought by the accident demonstrated the great conflicts entangled in the three members of the family and embodied the crisis buried beneath the fragile relationships. However, the key to the essay is to suggest the understanding between family members cos no matter how serious the crack and divergence exists in the family, understanding is the only way to rescue. Even if the family works as one of most basic unit of the society, it should not be easily crashed down by partial injury.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Rhetorical Analysis on “ Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age”
In the essay “Shame and Forgetting in the information age.” the author, Charles Baxter altered people not to neglect the our basic skill of remembering and experiencing, only resort to technic information. Learn and earn a correct attitude dealing with shame and forgetting is quite necessary in this information age
Tom, Baxter’s big brother could never learn to remember through paper and screen but is absolutely excel in controlling his memory of experience. “ Forgetting was shameful to him, and he felt it marked his way for life.” (Baxter P. 141)His forgetfulness shames him all his life with a tragic ending without any achievement. This is a story that astonished people by thinking: should the information plays such an important role? Seems like people today are losing patient to what can be experienced as human-beings but tend to rely on data information instead. Tom’s failure to get rid of shame and forgetfulness forces to people to consider how can we deal with the same problem in an age so called “info-glut”.
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Is the info-glut really close to us? The answer is affirmative as it is not hard to observe. However, Baxter is even more confident to let you read the examples he made or stand in a situation he granted through which he can bring up a similar context to the reader, say, the conversation talking about “memory” on campus. “ ‘Your memory’ can now in casual conversation refer to your computer’s memory rather than your own.”( Baxter P.145) . So what about “facebook” or “twitter”? These words has entrusted much more popular indications than what is explained in the dictionary.These changes are all because of the technology development and information age’s extension. Today,we prefer to remember the temperature on TV or Internet rather than go outside to feel it by ourselves. Baxter explains “ Remembering data and remembering an experience are two very different activities.”( Baxter P.146), for many times, the weather is not as cold or warm as you saw on the screen. The weather forecast may be one of the thousands examples that people today prone to remember data. If there is a day you have to take over the job of a former renowned cook to make a famous cuisine for the gourmets outside. You’ d better remember the exact names and dosages of the ingredient needed unless you have tasted the dish before, Otherwise you’ll have to face endless complains and a bleaker business. Forgetfulness corners people even more when the information was transformed into data, however, most people are still struggling to get used to that. “ In an information age, forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one’s grip.”( Baxter P.147) It seems like people today have face much more intensive tension in memorize in order to keep his life and career smoothly going on. Sometimes we may be envious to see the exception of Bill Clinton since his forgetfulness is likely allowed. But sometimes we should be happy to be normal guy unlike Tom and Regan. However, Baxter’s interpretation still forces us to doubt: Has information today been transformed into garbage?
As all of us could feel the information age’s surrounding which confirmed Walt Benjamin’s prediction. And moreover, his vexation of experience deficiency presents too.“ His implication is that the coming information-glut will force experience - and the storytelling generally - into a corner and additionally force it to resort to extremes.” ( Baxter P. 149) Looking around our world, a bigger and bigger number of people are trying to remember without experience, and that may result in a hollow mind after an easily forgetting. Such an ugly extreme aftermath that nobody wants to see. If we think about our emotion after we forget — the shame, appears more and more often. “ Forgetting and shame might just serve, under the immediate surface consciousness, as an escape route of sorts.”( Baxter P.150) Feel shame must be the most direct reaction you make to avoid the feel of guilty. And this is unstoppable unless you use your heart to learn and keep it mind. Girls like to blame their boyfriends for forgetting Valentine’s day or their birthday. But it is not a problem for true lovers because love is an experience carved on heart not so easy to forget as the date on your cellular. The data, also as Baxter concerns, is senseless without a counterpart of experience.
But how can we deal with the memory crisis? Baxter suggests to write a memoir which he depicts as the “revenge upon info-glut .” In the memoir, we can narrate our own stories on paper, chew on the memories deeply buried ,renew the way we think about history and try to identify ourselves. However, the shame aroused by the chronic information memory forget could elicit even more forgetful when we try to retrieve our own personal experience. “Shame comes the first, but strategic forgetting follows closely behind.”( Baxter P.153) Baxter points out the phenomenon of “ father distortion” is attribute to shame and strategic amnesia. The disappearance of some details may contribute to a whole piece of memory omission and replaced by fabricated ones with a certain type of inclination afterwards. Nevertheless, the last section is named“ Maybe erasure is necessary.” for Baxter believes forgetfulness is not as worthless all situations. There are bad memories that block us to make objective decision and also delude us to pick the right choice. Forgetting could be a skill to learn as well. “Strategic amnesia of everyday life, both involuntary and willful.”( Baxter P.157) Try to forget something traumatic strategically may affect an individual’s way of life, change his/her attitude toward the future and be responsible to the person who loves him. This is another way to value our own memory and experience.
At the end of the essay, Baxter claims “ All the computers in the world cannot remedy it .( usage of personal experience)”( Baxter P.157) . Alarming the dissemination of computer technology not only marks the information age today but also plays the greatest threat to the human natural experience. So please value your own experience before it’s too late.
Tom, Baxter’s big brother could never learn to remember through paper and screen but is absolutely excel in controlling his memory of experience. “ Forgetting was shameful to him, and he felt it marked his way for life.” (Baxter P. 141)His forgetfulness shames him all his life with a tragic ending without any achievement. This is a story that astonished people by thinking: should the information plays such an important role? Seems like people today are losing patient to what can be experienced as human-beings but tend to rely on data information instead. Tom’s failure to get rid of shame and forgetfulness forces to people to consider how can we deal with the same problem in an age so called “info-glut”.
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Is the info-glut really close to us? The answer is affirmative as it is not hard to observe. However, Baxter is even more confident to let you read the examples he made or stand in a situation he granted through which he can bring up a similar context to the reader, say, the conversation talking about “memory” on campus. “ ‘Your memory’ can now in casual conversation refer to your computer’s memory rather than your own.”( Baxter P.145) . So what about “facebook” or “twitter”? These words has entrusted much more popular indications than what is explained in the dictionary.These changes are all because of the technology development and information age’s extension. Today,we prefer to remember the temperature on TV or Internet rather than go outside to feel it by ourselves. Baxter explains “ Remembering data and remembering an experience are two very different activities.”( Baxter P.146), for many times, the weather is not as cold or warm as you saw on the screen. The weather forecast may be one of the thousands examples that people today prone to remember data. If there is a day you have to take over the job of a former renowned cook to make a famous cuisine for the gourmets outside. You’ d better remember the exact names and dosages of the ingredient needed unless you have tasted the dish before, Otherwise you’ll have to face endless complains and a bleaker business. Forgetfulness corners people even more when the information was transformed into data, however, most people are still struggling to get used to that. “ In an information age, forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one’s grip.”( Baxter P.147) It seems like people today have face much more intensive tension in memorize in order to keep his life and career smoothly going on. Sometimes we may be envious to see the exception of Bill Clinton since his forgetfulness is likely allowed. But sometimes we should be happy to be normal guy unlike Tom and Regan. However, Baxter’s interpretation still forces us to doubt: Has information today been transformed into garbage?
As all of us could feel the information age’s surrounding which confirmed Walt Benjamin’s prediction. And moreover, his vexation of experience deficiency presents too.“ His implication is that the coming information-glut will force experience - and the storytelling generally - into a corner and additionally force it to resort to extremes.” ( Baxter P. 149) Looking around our world, a bigger and bigger number of people are trying to remember without experience, and that may result in a hollow mind after an easily forgetting. Such an ugly extreme aftermath that nobody wants to see. If we think about our emotion after we forget — the shame, appears more and more often. “ Forgetting and shame might just serve, under the immediate surface consciousness, as an escape route of sorts.”( Baxter P.150) Feel shame must be the most direct reaction you make to avoid the feel of guilty. And this is unstoppable unless you use your heart to learn and keep it mind. Girls like to blame their boyfriends for forgetting Valentine’s day or their birthday. But it is not a problem for true lovers because love is an experience carved on heart not so easy to forget as the date on your cellular. The data, also as Baxter concerns, is senseless without a counterpart of experience.
But how can we deal with the memory crisis? Baxter suggests to write a memoir which he depicts as the “revenge upon info-glut .” In the memoir, we can narrate our own stories on paper, chew on the memories deeply buried ,renew the way we think about history and try to identify ourselves. However, the shame aroused by the chronic information memory forget could elicit even more forgetful when we try to retrieve our own personal experience. “Shame comes the first, but strategic forgetting follows closely behind.”( Baxter P.153) Baxter points out the phenomenon of “ father distortion” is attribute to shame and strategic amnesia. The disappearance of some details may contribute to a whole piece of memory omission and replaced by fabricated ones with a certain type of inclination afterwards. Nevertheless, the last section is named“ Maybe erasure is necessary.” for Baxter believes forgetfulness is not as worthless all situations. There are bad memories that block us to make objective decision and also delude us to pick the right choice. Forgetting could be a skill to learn as well. “Strategic amnesia of everyday life, both involuntary and willful.”( Baxter P.157) Try to forget something traumatic strategically may affect an individual’s way of life, change his/her attitude toward the future and be responsible to the person who loves him. This is another way to value our own memory and experience.
At the end of the essay, Baxter claims “ All the computers in the world cannot remedy it .( usage of personal experience)”( Baxter P.157) . Alarming the dissemination of computer technology not only marks the information age today but also plays the greatest threat to the human natural experience. So please value your own experience before it’s too late.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Revised Controlling Purpose and Introduction
My controlling purpose: The data that come to dominate people’s brain could result in a personal experience oblivion. The original remembering capacity of experience is irreplaceable, even if in a developed information age. It is better to carefully control the information around us and pay more attention to our own valuable memory and experience.
My revised controlling purpose: The data that come to dominate people’s brain could result in a personal experience oblivion. The original remembering capacity of experience is irreplaceable and need even more attention in an information age, especially on how to treat the forgetting and shame problem that would naturally be brought about.
Introduction revised:
In the essay “Shame and Forgetting in the information age.” the author, Charles Baxter altered people not to neglect the our basic skill of remembering and experiencing and only resort to technic information. Learn and earn a correct attitude dealing with shame and forgetting in quite necessary in this information age.
Tom, Baxter’s big brother could never learn to remember through paper and screen but is absolutely excel in controlling his memory of experience. His forgetfulness shames him all his life with a tragic ending without any achievement. This is a story that astonished people by thinking should the information plays such an important role? New technology’s coming and saturation is not always a good thing. We are losing patient to what can experienced as a human-being since a lot of people tend to rely too much on data information. But when we look back and try to rescue what we are missing, forgetting and shame always comes together to block. Shame should be nature and forgetting is not always a bad thing. Perhaps erasure is necessary, forgetting the traumatic issues is another way we value our own memory and experience.
1.“ Forgetting was shameful to him, and he felt it marked his life.”(141)
2. “ A proliferation of information causes information-inflation.That is,every individual piece of information loses some value given the sheer quality of other information.”(146)
3. “ Remembering data and remembering an experience are two very different activities.”(146)
4. “ In an information age, forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one’s grip.”(147)
5. “ ...the explosion of information in the Modern Age is denying us something precious: “ the ability to exchange experiences.” That is storytelling.”(149)
6. “ Forgetting and shame might just serve, under the immediate surface of consciousness, as an escape route of sorts.”(150)
7. “ The memoir is the memory’s revenge upon info-glut.”(151)
8. “Shame comes the first, but strategic forgetting follows closely behind.”(153)
9." Strategic amnesia of everyday life, both involuntary and willful."(157)
10. “ All the computers in the world cannot remedy it.”(157)
My revised controlling purpose: The data that come to dominate people’s brain could result in a personal experience oblivion. The original remembering capacity of experience is irreplaceable and need even more attention in an information age, especially on how to treat the forgetting and shame problem that would naturally be brought about.
Introduction revised:
In the essay “Shame and Forgetting in the information age.” the author, Charles Baxter altered people not to neglect the our basic skill of remembering and experiencing and only resort to technic information. Learn and earn a correct attitude dealing with shame and forgetting in quite necessary in this information age.
Tom, Baxter’s big brother could never learn to remember through paper and screen but is absolutely excel in controlling his memory of experience. His forgetfulness shames him all his life with a tragic ending without any achievement. This is a story that astonished people by thinking should the information plays such an important role? New technology’s coming and saturation is not always a good thing. We are losing patient to what can experienced as a human-being since a lot of people tend to rely too much on data information. But when we look back and try to rescue what we are missing, forgetting and shame always comes together to block. Shame should be nature and forgetting is not always a bad thing. Perhaps erasure is necessary, forgetting the traumatic issues is another way we value our own memory and experience.
1.“ Forgetting was shameful to him, and he felt it marked his life.”(141)
2. “ A proliferation of information causes information-inflation.That is,every individual piece of information loses some value given the sheer quality of other information.”(146)
3. “ Remembering data and remembering an experience are two very different activities.”(146)
4. “ In an information age, forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one’s grip.”(147)
5. “ ...the explosion of information in the Modern Age is denying us something precious: “ the ability to exchange experiences.” That is storytelling.”(149)
6. “ Forgetting and shame might just serve, under the immediate surface of consciousness, as an escape route of sorts.”(150)
7. “ The memoir is the memory’s revenge upon info-glut.”(151)
8. “Shame comes the first, but strategic forgetting follows closely behind.”(153)
9." Strategic amnesia of everyday life, both involuntary and willful."(157)
10. “ All the computers in the world cannot remedy it.”(157)
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Rhetorical Analysis on "Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age"
In the essay “ Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age”, the author, Baxter attempts to show his anxiety towards memory crisis brought by the infiltration of new technology, or in another word, the coming of information age. He remains a very skeptical attitude to the data memory that comes to dominate people’s brain while rebukes that could result in a personal experience oblivion. “A proliferation of information causes information-inflation.That is,every individual piece of information loses some value given the sheer quality of other information.” (Baxter P.146) However, this is not a very explicit point we can observe from the title and preceded paragraphs.
Story is always the best teacher, and also an all time adequate essay starter. Baxter uses the first section to memorize his big brother, Tom, the best specimen who can play a great role in story memorizing and speech, but struggled all his life couldn’t tear down the tag of an underdog. Tom has a very rugged life that is cornered by forgetfulness, the forgetfulness on the information on paper and screens. “ Forgetting was shameful to him, and he felt it marked his way for life.” (Baxter P. 141) Maybe Tom is just a very peculiar sample of person who has an eccentric information amnesia, but behind the reader’s compassion there must be a further consideration wondering today’s information transformation mechanism, echoing with the epigraph “ We have transformed information into a form of garbage.”( Neil Postman p. 141) With questions and a story backdrop, reader's interest is stimulated and bridged into the second section for a further interpretation.
How could it possible to break the old cognition and refill a new concept of info-glut into the reader's mind? In the following sections, Baxter is really good at making examples or creating granted situations that can bring up a similar context to the reader preparing for a deeper interpretation, say, the conversation talking about “memory” on campus. “ ‘Your memory’ can now in casual conversation refer to your computer’s memory rather than your own.”( Baxter P.145) As a metaphor, Baxter channels his concept of memory afterwards in by dividing memory into personal experience and data remembering.“ Remembering data and remembering an experience are two very different activities.”( Baxter P.146) So far, Baxter has put the two conflicting words overlap help making a comparison, especially upon the problem of forgetfulness. “ In an information age, forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one’s grip.”( Baxter P.147), however, the instance of Bill Clinton is just underneath making a contrast, as a hint foreshadowing the development of necessity of strategic amnesia in the sequel.
So you mean the most information we gained today are garbage? Why should I believe you?
Many people may response such questions when they make the first contact to such a subversive theory they never concerned. But in most cases, the philosophy from a renowned great man can always be regarded as an authority, such as Walter Benjamin’s prediction. A great way it make the author’s point convincible.“ His implication is that the coming information-glut will force experience - and the storytelling generally - into a corner and additionally force it to resort to extremes.” ( Baxter P. 149) Just like the interesting plots in the story of Ms Bartleby. “ Forgetting and shame might just serve, under the immediate surface consciousness, as an escape route of sorts.”( Baxter P.150) The data, as far as Baxter concerns, is senseless without a counterpart of experience, which is losing its importance in most people’s mind. However, the problems of forgetfulness and shame are harassing so that Baxter offers his idea dealing with shame and forgetfulness involved in personal experience remembering. That is the reason why the usage and memoir is then illustrated in the following two sections.
“ The memoir is memory’s revenge upon info-glut.”, said in the section 4. The shame, aroused by chronic information memory forget could elicit even more forgetfulness when we try to retrieve our own personal experience, embodied in writing a memoirs, say, the abnormal father distortion.“Shame comes the first, but strategic forgetting follows closely behind.”( Baxter P.153) But forgetfulness is not as worthless as the stereotype concerns. “ Maybe erasure is necessary.” Baxter believes “strategic amnesia of everyday life, both involuntary and willful.”( Baxter P.157), and has it testified through analyzing the memoir “ Lake-of- Woods.”
At the end of the essay, Baxter claims “ All the computers in the world cannot remedy it .( usage of personal experience)”( Baxter P.157) The original remembering capacity of experience is irreplaceable, even if in a developed information age. It is better to carefully control the information around us and pay more attention to our own valuable memory and experience.
Story is always the best teacher, and also an all time adequate essay starter. Baxter uses the first section to memorize his big brother, Tom, the best specimen who can play a great role in story memorizing and speech, but struggled all his life couldn’t tear down the tag of an underdog. Tom has a very rugged life that is cornered by forgetfulness, the forgetfulness on the information on paper and screens. “ Forgetting was shameful to him, and he felt it marked his way for life.” (Baxter P. 141) Maybe Tom is just a very peculiar sample of person who has an eccentric information amnesia, but behind the reader’s compassion there must be a further consideration wondering today’s information transformation mechanism, echoing with the epigraph “ We have transformed information into a form of garbage.”( Neil Postman p. 141) With questions and a story backdrop, reader's interest is stimulated and bridged into the second section for a further interpretation.
How could it possible to break the old cognition and refill a new concept of info-glut into the reader's mind? In the following sections, Baxter is really good at making examples or creating granted situations that can bring up a similar context to the reader preparing for a deeper interpretation, say, the conversation talking about “memory” on campus. “ ‘Your memory’ can now in casual conversation refer to your computer’s memory rather than your own.”( Baxter P.145) As a metaphor, Baxter channels his concept of memory afterwards in by dividing memory into personal experience and data remembering.“ Remembering data and remembering an experience are two very different activities.”( Baxter P.146) So far, Baxter has put the two conflicting words overlap help making a comparison, especially upon the problem of forgetfulness. “ In an information age, forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one’s grip.”( Baxter P.147), however, the instance of Bill Clinton is just underneath making a contrast, as a hint foreshadowing the development of necessity of strategic amnesia in the sequel.
So you mean the most information we gained today are garbage? Why should I believe you?
Many people may response such questions when they make the first contact to such a subversive theory they never concerned. But in most cases, the philosophy from a renowned great man can always be regarded as an authority, such as Walter Benjamin’s prediction. A great way it make the author’s point convincible.“ His implication is that the coming information-glut will force experience - and the storytelling generally - into a corner and additionally force it to resort to extremes.” ( Baxter P. 149) Just like the interesting plots in the story of Ms Bartleby. “ Forgetting and shame might just serve, under the immediate surface consciousness, as an escape route of sorts.”( Baxter P.150) The data, as far as Baxter concerns, is senseless without a counterpart of experience, which is losing its importance in most people’s mind. However, the problems of forgetfulness and shame are harassing so that Baxter offers his idea dealing with shame and forgetfulness involved in personal experience remembering. That is the reason why the usage and memoir is then illustrated in the following two sections.
“ The memoir is memory’s revenge upon info-glut.”, said in the section 4. The shame, aroused by chronic information memory forget could elicit even more forgetfulness when we try to retrieve our own personal experience, embodied in writing a memoirs, say, the abnormal father distortion.“Shame comes the first, but strategic forgetting follows closely behind.”( Baxter P.153) But forgetfulness is not as worthless as the stereotype concerns. “ Maybe erasure is necessary.” Baxter believes “strategic amnesia of everyday life, both involuntary and willful.”( Baxter P.157), and has it testified through analyzing the memoir “ Lake-of- Woods.”
At the end of the essay, Baxter claims “ All the computers in the world cannot remedy it .( usage of personal experience)”( Baxter P.157) The original remembering capacity of experience is irreplaceable, even if in a developed information age. It is better to carefully control the information around us and pay more attention to our own valuable memory and experience.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Introduction
In the essay “ Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age”, the author Charles Baxter not only arranged a very circumspect reading structure to make an approach to the topic in analyzing his vexation towards the “narrative dysfunction”, but also organized a pretty continuous relation net. Just as all of us, of course including Baxter he himself can clearly see the increasing significant role of data memory that even dominating many people’s entire brain. As a result, the portion of memory left for the experience is in a inferior strength position. The most prevail way of data remembrance has impact almost every people’s perception, and then emotion. They believe forgetfulness is unforgivable and habitually result in a mood of shame. This consequences aroused by the info-glut is rather contagious that make a miserable skills dealing with shame and forgetfulness when transforming experiment memory. That is, a standard symptom of the “narrative dysfunction”and “strategic amnesia” involved in the everyday social life. Many people have lost a competent ability in telling a story while is also being reflected in those criticized memoirs. These facts, I think, comsist the stimulation for Baxter to appeal to people to remain a natural way of remembering and expression under the huge pressure of information inflation.At last, as a conclusion and also a motif, human brain has its advantage that could never be replaced
Quotes:
1.“ Forgetting was shameful to him, and he felt it marked his life.”(141)
2. “ A proliferation of information causes information-inflation.That is,every individual piece of information loses some value given the sheer quality of other information.”(146)
3. “ Remembering data and remembering an experience are two very different activities.”(146)
4. “ In an information age, forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one’s grip.”(147)
5. “ ...the explosion of information in the Modern Age is denying us something precious: “ the ability to exchange experiences.” That is storytelling.”(149)
6. “ His implication is that the coming information- glut will force experience -and storytelling generally - into a corner and additionally force it to resort extremes.”(149)
7. “ Forgetting and shame might just serve, under the immediate surface of consciousness, as an escape route of sorts.”(150)
8. “ The memoir is the memory’s revenge upon info-glut.”(151)
9. “If any writer can tell the story of his or her life,s/he has a chance of escaping from the suffering of a dysfunctional personal narrative.”(152)
10. “Shame comes the first, but strategic forgetting follows closely behind.”(153)
11. “ All the computers in the world cannot remedy it.”(157)
Quotes:
1.“ Forgetting was shameful to him, and he felt it marked his life.”(141)
2. “ A proliferation of information causes information-inflation.That is,every individual piece of information loses some value given the sheer quality of other information.”(146)
3. “ Remembering data and remembering an experience are two very different activities.”(146)
4. “ In an information age, forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one’s grip.”(147)
5. “ ...the explosion of information in the Modern Age is denying us something precious: “ the ability to exchange experiences.” That is storytelling.”(149)
6. “ His implication is that the coming information- glut will force experience -and storytelling generally - into a corner and additionally force it to resort extremes.”(149)
7. “ Forgetting and shame might just serve, under the immediate surface of consciousness, as an escape route of sorts.”(150)
8. “ The memoir is the memory’s revenge upon info-glut.”(151)
9. “If any writer can tell the story of his or her life,s/he has a chance of escaping from the suffering of a dysfunctional personal narrative.”(152)
10. “Shame comes the first, but strategic forgetting follows closely behind.”(153)
11. “ All the computers in the world cannot remedy it.”(157)
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Response after reading "Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age"
In the reading material “ Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age”, the author attempts to show a different attitude towards current information narration system and also pronounces a skeptical voice towards many ubiquitous phenomenon by using evidence the he recapitulated from history and logic deduction. The term strategic amnesia and narrative dysfunction are the two point he mainly focuses on. He believes quite of a lot of people, including a great bunch of elicits who have lost their ability to be a competent storyteller for the reason of the data cramming. It’s a tragic to see the most direct and sensitive way of expression has been replaced by very accurate data that blocks the experience’s formation. Besides, the author also condemned some writers who he thinks have ignored the principle that he claims in writhing memoirs.
Undoubtedly, the author has used all kinds of methods rendering this piece of work more convincible. At least for me, the title is quite perplexing with a very offensive epigraph underneath, tightly clenches reader’s interest of a deeper glancing. However, instead of making a quick penetration, the author intends to play as a storyteller himself in the first section while exemplifies a very specific specimen whom marshals all the features that he supposes to analyse hereinafter. The brother Tom, surely, is a tragedy, someone who was always striving but nothing achieved until a bleak end of life. The dump brother, certainly in most people’s view has a ability that is thought to be unique and a pile of strange characteristics that,we, the normal people can’t understand. That’s a usual way usher the reader opening a door of theatrical demonstration.
In fact, I think it’s quite oblivious to see the author’s stance only if you have read the epigraph. It is impossible to make a opponent declaration after merely a single sentence without any cited context. The body of the analyze is separated into four sections, a pretty prevail form of progressive digestion. The first section, of course, has to vent out the fundamental concepts of the key words along with some interesting changes in academic background. These changes, can not only explain the birth of new time, but also assist to make comparison of time and world, indicate to echo with the content in section 2, the core of the essay.
In section 2, the author has explained the notion of data and experience and proposed the opinion against the conventional understanding of remember and forget.He is very conversant in using all kinds of subject to prove his point. From the familiar everyday life to the politicians like Regan and Clinton. You can always find a instance channel you into his perspective, otherwise there is an apparent conclusion as the final, for example, the detriment of info- glut.
What’s more, in section 3 and 4, the author intercepts Walter Benjamin’s doctrine on information and memory, an old prophesy which could work as a cushion to reduce the brusque concept plantation. And as usual, he uses very specific examples and models to make the interpretation. Meanwhile, in these two sections, the author finally reveals the primary topic he is trying to point at, the literature issues,particular in the “father distortion phenomenon”, and ultimately spread until the last section talking about the forgetfulness.
So as far as I’m concerned, the watershed could be settled between Section 3 and 4 and steer into an entire different direction but not how to write a memoir, say, how to be qualified parents or doing more effective education. The reason for multiple choices is the following contents are not necessarily connect to the title mentioned on the first page.
Undoubtedly, the author has used all kinds of methods rendering this piece of work more convincible. At least for me, the title is quite perplexing with a very offensive epigraph underneath, tightly clenches reader’s interest of a deeper glancing. However, instead of making a quick penetration, the author intends to play as a storyteller himself in the first section while exemplifies a very specific specimen whom marshals all the features that he supposes to analyse hereinafter. The brother Tom, surely, is a tragedy, someone who was always striving but nothing achieved until a bleak end of life. The dump brother, certainly in most people’s view has a ability that is thought to be unique and a pile of strange characteristics that,we, the normal people can’t understand. That’s a usual way usher the reader opening a door of theatrical demonstration.
In fact, I think it’s quite oblivious to see the author’s stance only if you have read the epigraph. It is impossible to make a opponent declaration after merely a single sentence without any cited context. The body of the analyze is separated into four sections, a pretty prevail form of progressive digestion. The first section, of course, has to vent out the fundamental concepts of the key words along with some interesting changes in academic background. These changes, can not only explain the birth of new time, but also assist to make comparison of time and world, indicate to echo with the content in section 2, the core of the essay.
In section 2, the author has explained the notion of data and experience and proposed the opinion against the conventional understanding of remember and forget.He is very conversant in using all kinds of subject to prove his point. From the familiar everyday life to the politicians like Regan and Clinton. You can always find a instance channel you into his perspective, otherwise there is an apparent conclusion as the final, for example, the detriment of info- glut.
What’s more, in section 3 and 4, the author intercepts Walter Benjamin’s doctrine on information and memory, an old prophesy which could work as a cushion to reduce the brusque concept plantation. And as usual, he uses very specific examples and models to make the interpretation. Meanwhile, in these two sections, the author finally reveals the primary topic he is trying to point at, the literature issues,particular in the “father distortion phenomenon”, and ultimately spread until the last section talking about the forgetfulness.
So as far as I’m concerned, the watershed could be settled between Section 3 and 4 and steer into an entire different direction but not how to write a memoir, say, how to be qualified parents or doing more effective education. The reason for multiple choices is the following contents are not necessarily connect to the title mentioned on the first page.
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