The Planet Of The Blind

The United States has many minority groups that face oppression. In the media today, most of the minority issues that are highlighted involve the LGBTQ community, women, and racial minorities. Differently-abled people are rarely given the space to share with the world how they see it. This literature review will discuss terms related to visual impairment, legislative measures taken in the United States to assist those with severe visual impairments, and the oppression and discrimination those who are visually impaired face.

The society questions why it is so challenging to communicate with foreigners. "The Country of the Blind" is a short story first published in 1904 by H.G. Wells. He is well known for his science fiction novels. This short story is focusing on sight and blindness and brings up the theme of prejudice versus learning. In the novel we follow a traveller, who ends up in an unfamiliar strange place, which set him in learning trail, figuring out who he really is. How does the writer illustrate the difficulties with foreigners in this short story?

Planet of the Blind is brilliantly written by Stephen Kuusisto; he delves into his life story and gives readers exceptionally realistic descriptions of his experiences. Beginning the memoir, it is clear that Kuusisto is undergoing an obvious struggle between himself and his blindness. Born with retinopathy of prematurity, Kuusisto’s parents do their best to avoid his impairment. Due to this, Kuusisto describes himself as developing a sixth sense of giving off the perception that he could see significantly better than what he actually could. Throughout the memoir, Kuusisto chronologically tells of significant events during his childhood, teenage years, and adulthood and how he came to accept his disability and be confident in himself. During the course of these significant events, Kuusisto uses poetry to convey his emotions while also using the rhetoric of emancipation.

Huck Finn is a young boy of about twelve or fourteen, who for all intents and purposes feels a great sense of isolation because he is caught between; the civilised world of: tea, cake and schooling, an abusive father who wants nothing more from his son; except for his son to always be as ignorant as him, and Huck’s own mind which is battling against society, trying to pick out the ways to do right in the world. It is essential that the the main character in this to be a child. Adults tend towards the way they have always thought, but a child can learn and their world outlook can change. Children are also often seen as less intelligent than adults, but when a child sees a flaw in society it creates a certain discomfort in adults. It is also because of Huck’s loneliness that a reader can view him as a more impartial judge of human charcter. There is however; with all of this being said, a child narrator creates a character that children can relate to, and this creates an iceberg of sorts where the main message sinks under while the main theme of adventure is all the reader can take

Character development is used in Huck Finn to represent an idealistic lifestyle of any young child, but eventually begins to form into the rest of society. Huck has no active relationships other than the one with his drunken and absentee father, and has the freedom to do whatever he pleases. He is admired by all the other kids as a symbol of freedom and a perfect lifestyle. Nonetheless Huck begins to change throughout the story, and fit into the typical structure of most children in the story. While most adult despise Huck Mr. Jones welcomes him with open arms, into his home. The sudden change in events begins to reform Huck and starts a very drastic change in his character. Although Tom begins the story despising the actions of the so called “model boy”, although he senses the change in his character by

This disease is one of the most used disease due to the product being developed for it and the product actually being able to help restore the condition back to normal. Currently the Argus II is also being tested for people with more common conditions like age related eye vision loss.

The idea of blindness in Carver’s Cathedral gains additional meaning throughout the story as we learn more about the character Robert and the blind man himself. The story begins in first person, depicting Roberts disdain for the blind and his smallness of character. As a juxtaposition we are introduced to the blind man who is evolved in character, and has a substantially important relationship with Roberts’s wife. As the story progresses and Robert has more interaction with the blind man, he himself begins to evolve through time spent while his wife is asleep. As the story comes to an end, the blind man has affected the character of Robert to the point that his inward blindness has been exposed. This story shows that blindness does not necessarily

Huckleberry Finn recognizes Jim as a human being, but is fighting the beliefs bestowed upon him by a society that believes slaves should not be free. However, it is important to realize that although Huckleberry Finn's decisions create the conflict between society and himself (and that this conflict forms the theme of the novel), Huck is oblivious to the justice, the righteousness, and even the heroism of his own actions, they are simply in accordance with his own conscience.

Change blindness is a phenomenon in attention where drastic changes to a scene can go unnoticed. This is important to the field of Human Sensation and Perception because it helps illustrate how a visual scene is processed. Specifically it shows how even if there is direct attention to a scene, there are times when drastic changes can occur without perception of the change occurring. With extensive research already conducted illustrating this effect, new research has recently been conducted studying different types of scene changes in the hopes of understanding which changes are easier or harder to notice. The results of these studies were quantified by the measurement of change detection time (usually reported in seconds). This subset of change blindness research has far-reaching practical applications, especially in the field of security and law enforcement. By applying the knowledge of which type of stimuli lead to longer change detection times training programs could be developed that allow this population to improve their observation skills.

Prejudice is an issue that is present in communities around the world due to diversity in race, religion, sexual orientation, lifestyles and physical disabilities of others as well. However, sometimes it just takes a life changing moment for one to realize that he or she should not discriminate against others just because of their appearance or beliefs. In the story “Cathedral”, author Raymond Carver writes about a man who is prejudging towards his wife’s blind friend, Robert, who will be visiting the couple. At first the narrator, or “Bub” as Robert nicknamed him, does not like the idea of Robert staying there because he is blind. Once Robert arrives, “Bub” does not really make an effort to get along with him; they had dinner together

Diversity is usually portrayed as the acceptance of many different races and geographical cultures. It is not as common to hear the lack of diversity towards the blind community but it exists. The attendance of Texas State University has opened up the doors to one of the most diverse places I have had the chance to experience first-hand. Although Texas State has become somewhat of a safe-haven, that does not displace the fact that there is stereotyping everywhere against the blind.

In the novel, Paradise of the Blind, written by Duong Thu Huong originally in Vietnamese and translated into English by Phan Huy Duong and Nina Mcpherson, the author constructs characters Aunt Tam and Uncle Chinh as analogs of conflicting political ideologies of 20th century Vietnam in order to display her opinions on its effectiveness in attaining proclaimed paradise. The characters are constructed to differently express the author’s voice towards extremist ideologies, Uncle Chinh

Huckleberry Finn is a story that many people in can relate to. It tells of the many internal and external conflicts that humans deal with throughout their lifetime. The book truly touches all people who read it; it gives them the clarity to lessons that they are searching for. Many times we find ourselves in situations like Huck, and we feel the same way about our circumstances as he does.

Upon first reading Duong Thu Hong 's novel Paradise of the Blind, I was quite unaware about Vietnam after the Vietnam war and some of the paramount hardships with which people were faced with. However, the interactive oral discussions have given me a different perspective on the novel and I was able to delve into the subtleties and complexities of Vietnamese culture and some of its key characteristics.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a novel full of racism and hypocrisy of the society that we know. Huck continually faces the many challenges of what to do in tough situations dealing with racism and what the society wants him to do. With the novel being written in the first person point of view gives us insightful information into the challenges the Huck is facing and gives us a look into Huck’s head. Huck uses many different techniques to deal with his problems and he gets through them with the end result always being what Huck believes is right. Through Huck’s perspective we see how he deals with all of the racism and hypocrisy of society to form him into the character that he is and to serve the themes of the