In Chuck Palahniuk’s essay “ You Are Here”, the writers who are submitting their ideas to hollywood are the people chained to the wall. All they know to do is to speak their ideas to the judges. No matter how interesting the writers may think their ideas are, there is nothing they can do to persuade them any longer after the time is up. It’s like the lottery. I guess you could break free from your chains and leave the cave, but most likely you’ll live a false reality chained to the cave.
As a child, many things I came to believe were proven false as I grew up. When I was little I didn’t quite understand why old people are old and young people are young. I thought maybe I would always be the way I was, and my grandmother, or mother, or grandfather, would always look the same despite their increasing age. The only thing that could wake me up from this idea was when my cousin Daniel died at the age of 25. Now that death was possible, increasing age destroying the way you looked seemed so much more probable. It made the world a scarier place for a little kid like I was. But I probably wouldn’t be myself if I didn’t learn the way I had.
I’m not so sure how I did on the first part of this response because that was a really weird question. However, I tried the best I could with a question that Garrett went so far out of his way to confuse people with.
GARRRREEEETTT!
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