Reality and Truth
Reality and truth are both so hackneyed in a commonplace manner with over-lapping ideas that they each lose their own individuality. Reality is a subjective value that reflects what characterizes our world, whether it is our individual world or the world as a whole, and its conditions. Oliver Sacks' "The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See" and Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" bring the relationship of truth and reality into question. O'Brien openly uses the thin line between truth and reality to convey the message that truth and reality sustain a close relationship. Using examples of interpretation, cognition, and communication of a person's environment, the authors give the reader the idea that truth cannot exist without reality and vise versa. The authors tie truth and reality as interdependent.
Interpretation of a certain environment unlocks the truth of the society. One society can create one truth and one reality, whereas another society creates a different reality and truth. O'Brien offers many interpretations of war.
War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. The truths are contradictory. War is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty. (394)
O'Brien beliefs give an array of meanings of war. He also emphasizes in the end, with the example of interpretations of war, that truth is contradicting. Truth is contradicting because there is more than one truth. Truths are based a person's reality, however reality is also based on truth; one cannot survive without the other. In relation with O'Brien and Nafisi, Sacks also offers a truth and reality relationship. In truth, all of Sacks' correspondents were partially disabled or handicapped. In order for them to feel like they are not disabled, they create imaginations,
Interpretation of a certain environment unlocks the truth of the society. One society can create one truth and one reality, whereas another society creates a different reality and truth. O'Brien offers many interpretations of war.
War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. The truths are contradictory. War is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty. (394)
O'Brien beliefs give an array of meanings of war. He also emphasizes in the end, with the example of interpretations of war, that truth is contradicting. Truth is contradicting because there is more than one truth. Truths are based a person's reality, however reality is also based on truth; one cannot survive without the other. In relation with O'Brien and Nafisi, Sacks also offers a truth and reality relationship. In truth, all of Sacks' correspondents were partially disabled or handicapped. In order for them to feel like they are not disabled, they create imaginations,