José Saramago

Memory Lane Fictional Narrative Mason was very outgoing. He had brown hair and blue eyes. He always wanted to go and explore. He always loved his family, especially his brother Collin who was the complete opposite of him. Colin was a redhead with brown eyes. One day, specifically September 23, 2015, Mason was just driving around looking for a way to pass time. He drove around Pennsylvania thriving for something to do in his spare time On his way, he noticed a sign that lead into a cave that looked

The Cave Allegory Plato a famous Greek philosopher in his book “The Republic” has his teacher Socrates recount the allegory of the cave. A group of people have lived chained up in a deep cave since birth, never ever seeing daylight and seeing only ahead. Behind them is a partial wall and a fire between the prisoners and the partial wall. There are various statues manipulated by a hidden group (representing all the forces that program and influence us) behind the partial wall that the prisoners cannot

Memory Lane Fictional Narrative One day, specifically September 23, 2015, Mason was just driving around looking for a way to pass time. On his way, he noticed a sign that lead into a cave that looked suspicious and the sign said, “Memory Lane.” Mason decided to go into the suspicious looking cave and take a look around. Once he entered the cave about fifteen feet in, the walls started to glow and light up with many colors and he thought, “What is going on here?” As Mason looked at the walls

At the beginning of Book Seven, in an attempt to better describe the education of the philosopher Socrates begins to set up an analogy with an ascent and descent into “the cave”. In Socrates’ cave analogy there was a group of people who were from childhood held in a dimly lit underground cave. The people were kept there in bonds that were designed to allow them to only what was in front of them by depriving them of the ability to turn their heads around. Also present in Socrates’ cave was a certain

“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are” (Saramago 114) quoted a doctor struck with the disease called the white blindness. This quote demonstrates how when the whole world is blind, humanity will be able to see each other for what they really are. Blindness, by Jose Saramago, describes the journey of 7 unlucky people in a world gone blind by a milky white sea. Led by the doctor’s wife-whose eyesight remains-, they struggle to fit into society where race, gender,

Should’ve Been Called Sightedness In the abstract, Jose Saramago’s Blindness is nothing more than a mere hypothetical experiment. An experiment designed to test and criticize humanity - to, as most all texts intend, reveal insight into the inherent faults built into the society we have created. But the way in which Saramago achieves this criticism has a uniquely counterintuitive nature. In Blindness, Saramago, similar to God’s flood in the Old Testament, deluges a seemingly insidious white blindness

Beres, Derek. “Blindness by Jose Saramago Pop Matters”. 2 November 2008 Beres provides his opinion upon both the film and the book, and how Saramago adds more depth with not only the characters of the novel but the aspect of women’s role. Beres also compliments how Meirelles is able to bring the words to screen and, how the audience can perfectly see the storyline of this novel. Although the book happens to be more precise with the concrete purpose of this outbreak of blindness, society turns against

The novels, Cain by José Saramago and Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, both present different perspectives of God and truth. Through Cain, a reader can gain a skeptical perception of God and ultimately, question the importance of religion. On an alternative side, while Gilead does not directly offer commentary to God and religion, it is the source of its characters’ strength, especially with Robinson’s character Ames. Either way, God and religion has a profound impact on Cain and Ames’ lives that not

For this assignment, I decided to write about my visit to a “portable church.” As a matter of fact, this assignment had come at a perfect time in my life. For quite some time, I had been looking for an excuse to visit a new church. I did not feel like I was getting enough substance, or the “meat and potatoes” and I was hungry for more. I had always thought about visiting other but I could never get myself to walk through the doors. In the eyes of the philosopher Plato, I was sitting complacently

prisa para conocerse, como quienes van a pelear juntos. Los que enseñan los puños, como hermanos celosos, que quieren la misma tierra, o el de casa chica, que le tiene envidia al de la casa mejor, han de encajar, de modo que sean una, las dos manos.” José Martí enero de 1891 “Nuestra América” expresa como Hispanoamérica debe de empezar de liberarse de los gobernantes de otros países, como los europeos o estadunidenses. Martí nos da a entender que américa latina TIENE que empezar a luchar por sí misma