Read and respond to Orhan Pamuk's "The View" (it has two parts). Post your response (minimum 200 words) in the comments below.
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Reading ‘The View’ by Orhan Pamuk, immediately you get the sense of being with him and his daughter in the moment with the detailed description. For instance, he starts off describing what exactly him and his daughter is doing. “My five-year-old daughter, Rüya, and I were out on the island of Büyükada, going for a ride in a horse-drawn carriage. I sat facing backward and my daughter sat facing me.” Great imagery is used and helpful for the reader to picture while reader. The following sentences after really convey what he wants the piece to mean. For instance, he describes how amazed his daughter was at what she was seeing pass by. Then further in the essay he tells us…
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In the article The View, Pamuk began by painting a vivid picture of the hot sunny day he and his daughter experienced while riding in a carriage. I enjoyed how the authour compared their carriage passings with life. The author states "we werent really looking at them, anyways- our eyes kept moving. We werent really looking at any part of this hot afternoon, world. It was slipping past us in the heat." This compares to how we live each day, and allow life to pass us by without notice. As beings we are so busy with daily duties (work, school, home, cleaning, cooking, taking care of children), we hardly take time to notice the world around us.
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This piece explores the the complexity/duality of life and our perceptions of it. In order to create tension and contrast from the start, Pamuk places himself opposite his daughter. While they literally sit across from one another in a carriage, he expands on their contrasting views of the world around them. To further emphasize this dichotomy, Pamuk breaks this piece into two parts. It seems that his main purpose was to expand upon the idea that life is made up of an individual's perceptions. He accomplishes this feeling through his own internal monologue, but also through positioning others around him (his daughter, the driver, the dog). While he doesn't directly compare them, he offers their presence and lets the reader…
Whoever wrote asking about the subscription I'm willing to split it with you as this was my last free article. I thought this article was a lot like the others we've read where men are writing about themselves and not dealing with issues. I like how it didn't focus on death but on how life flies by us. I also got the opposite message compared to "Don't Marry the Fly". The author encourages paying attention to those little details, otherwise we miss out on a lot. Personally I thought the article could've done without the dog portion. Another personal opinion is that the author didn't understand dogs at all.
The article "The View" by Pamuk is a very interesting story that emphasizes that life is fleeting and precious and we need to notice the little details in it before it is too late; giving the example of going off the cliff, but they instead decide to stay and admire the scenery. The interesting thing to me in the article is the way that the author described the dog, like a sad mutt, and the daughter wanted nothing to do with it and was afraid of it due to what it looked like. Then the author starts to remember things that she knows about dogs very analytically. Then, when his daughter tells him she wants to leave, he remembers the…