Imagine we are at a museum and we see "La Gioconda" by Leonardo Da Vinci. Does everyone think the same when seeing it? what do the people think about that master piece? does everyone think the same?
According to John Berger, "we see different things based on our own experience". If we continue looking at it, there might be someone that thinks that Mona Lisa, for instance, looks like his/her grand-mother, or the field behind that woman looks like an old house he/she used to live in. Nevertheless, this different points of view depend only on the perspective of a person, in other words, how the person wants to look at it. The same happens with cameras. Whenever we take a picture, we decide how we want to take it, what things we want the picture to have, etc. Language is our way of communitation and this is another important fact. When we see something, for instace, a painting, we let the rest to know what I'm saying by speaking.
This essay by Berger made me think in blind people. How do they express what they believe things are if they don't know how they are? do we perceive things blinds do not? do blinds perceive things we don't?
According to John Berger, "we see different things based on our own experience". If we continue looking at it, there might be someone that thinks that Mona Lisa, for instance, looks like his/her grand-mother, or the field behind that woman looks like an old house he/she used to live in. Nevertheless, this different points of view depend only on the perspective of a person, in other words, how the person wants to look at it. The same happens with cameras. Whenever we take a picture, we decide how we want to take it, what things we want the picture to have, etc. Language is our way of communitation and this is another important fact. When we see something, for instace, a painting, we let the rest to know what I'm saying by speaking.
This essay by Berger made me think in blind people. How do they express what they believe things are if they don't know how they are? do we perceive things blinds do not? do blinds perceive things we don't?
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Hi my dear friend!
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What a great summary you did. Congratulations because of that. You did a good job by presenting the main ideas of the text with examples. It was much easier to understand the hole chapter.
A piece of advice? You need to revice what you write, because your grammar mistakes are often articles and determiner deletion.
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Hi Patty,
Your summary of the article shows a clear understanding of how perspective might change depending on time, space, beliefs, etc. This, in turn, is expressed through language, which is the way we communicate what we see and perceive.
Your example of the blind is very interesting. Clearly we don´t know how they perceive things, but we know that they, the same as the rest of us, are surrounded by artifacts and language that are the product of the culture where they live. However, their pereception is probably a lot more developed than ours.
Well done!!
Claudia
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