Friday, October 18, 2013
Eggers Response
Egger's uses these type of universal concepts in order to connect with more readers. He also is so brutally honest that one can feel slightly embarrassed, as though these are the bare thoughts of our own, the enjoyment of it coming from our realized separation from this public information. I'm the type of person that can watch a movie or some reality television show, someone do something really ridiculous to the point that it's tough for me to watch and I change the channel, as though I actually know that person. Same idea. We are entertained because someones is saying aloud the things we keep secret, and hold sacred for fear of rejection or judgement from society.
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I think your last three sentence summarize one of Eggers' approaches well. I often find myself watching a movie, listening to a song or reading a book and feeling embarrassed or scared for the character. I feel my cheeks burning up during awkward TV sex scenes and feel myself identifying with book characters I'm *nothing* like after a couple chapters or so. Universal concepts surely help bring us together, and I can't help but picture my younger brother and I as children while reading Eggers' descriptions of his adventures with Toph.
ReplyDeleteI like this response. I want to see how you'd emulate him.
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