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Running Head: CONNECTION WITH THE READING 1

CONNECTION WITH THE READING 2

Connection with Reading

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Connection with Reading

Literature can be considered as communication of writers' experiences of life. The connection does not last there but continues to impact others' lives as they interact with that piece of literature. Life offers raw material for artistic forms. The following is a reflection on how I connect with the class readings.

The Big Black Cat by Poe helps me connect reality and imagination. The narrator demonstrates his awareness of being irritable and disregard of the feelings of others. He indulges in unreasonable violent actions that lead to the death of his wife. The narrator seems lost in imaginations to the extent of losing reality. His attention is drawn to an object that he had been staring for a while without knowing its nature. After close checking, some minutes, he discovered that it was a black cat (Mays 769). This scenario relates to my personal life when I am lost in mind that I do not realize what is around me. As human beings, we all have worries that hold us down at times, and we fail to distinguish between reality and imagination. For example, I aspire to graduate with polished grades, leave school, and embark on building my career. Such a goal can cast an individual into the imagination in envisioning the future career path.

In A&P, Sammy is lost between reality and imagination when the three girls enter the grocery. They are stranger in the town and attract the attention of staff and customers as well. Sammy follows the girls in imagination, pondering over their personalities. He loses reality and falls for Quennie. He is supposed to be concentrating on his job as a cashier but gazes at the new customers (Mays 754). The girls seem fashionable and classy to Sammy than all other customers that the grocery had ever received. His imaginations lead him to the temptation of following the girls and, and he loses his job. I have experienced the loss of reality by coming across fancy things such as automobiles in the streets and imagined myself owning one. However, I understand that those are mere imaginations that can turn to reality through handwork and determination.

In The Purloined Letter, the reader is left to explore various possibilities. For example, one wonders what would happen if the letters get back to the royal lady. The readers get only second and third-hand clues despite the tricks and deceit in the letters. It is hard to distinguish between the reality since it is hidden and even forged in some cases. At the beginning of the letter, Poe is lost in meditation and has maintained silence for one hour with his companion Auguste Dupin. He confesses to being mentally occupied, where he was contemplating specific topics that they discussed later in the evening (Mays 772). This demonstrates that ordinarily, an individual would be lost between reality and imagination at some point in their time. The same thing has been happening to me, especially when reflecting on different occurrences. I take time alone to meditate on various aspects, such as my experience with friends and classroom experiences. I feel that mediation reinforces my understanding of the concepts that I learn in class because it helps me reframe the concepts according to my mastery.

Conclusion

Literature impacts our daily lives without considering the time when a piece was produced. It has different dimensions of interpretation, depending on unique circumstances. The readings that we have covered impact my life. I experience episodes of being lost between imaginations and reality, like some characters in the reading.

Works Cited

Mays Kelly. J. The Norton Introduction to Literature. W. W. Norton & Company; 12 edition. 2016