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The Narrator: The Wrong Perception Of The Deaf
The narrator had the wrong perception of what blind people were really like. Meeting Robert has helped opened the narrator's eyes and has forced him to come out of his comfort zone. I think the narrator realized what it’s really like to be blind. The narrator did not open his eyes because he was experiencing what Robert and other blind people experience every day. He was also able to use his imagination and his other senses. I would like to believe that this is a new beginning to the narrator. Meeting Robert has made the narrator change his way of thinking. He knows now not to be so one sided and to be more open minded.

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