Waking Life Analysis

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What it means to be human means to have complex ideas and thoughts that you can voice. Being a human means having an opinion. Humans want knowledge. They want to learn and understand things from other points of view. Literature allows people to do all of that.
(How else, as toddlers, could we learn something as complex as the language we’re hearing?) Myth-making is in our nature. It’s part of who we are as human beings. What this means in practice is that we instinctively make mental shapes, patterns, from everything that goes on around us. As babies, we are born, one philosopher said, into ‘a great blooming, buzzing confusion’. Coming to terms with that frightening confusion is one of humankind’s greatest enterprise. Myths have been a way …show more content…
The complex mind humans have, are allowed to come together through literature. It is a way of communication. Communication is what people live off of. Humans need that in order to feel. In the movie Waking Life chapter three “Life Lessons” one of the characters discusses the need humans have for communication. “And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we’ve connected, and we think that we’re understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it’s what we live for” (Waking Life). This quote represents something that seems to be the same for literature. Humans are able to get feelings, opinions, and perspectives from reading. All of that allows …show more content…
Both are stories about the Holocaust. The Diary of Anne Frank is an epistolary novel. The book is about Anne and her family in hiding for years from Nazi Germany. This story is the real journal that she kept. It allows the reader to put themselves in Anne’s shoes. This causes sympathy from the reader, especially because this journal is real. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne is a fiction story but it is something readers can empathize with as well. A little boy Shmuel, who is Jewish, is located in a concentration camp. A little boy Bruno, who is German, just moved a couple of miles away from the concentration camp because his father was in charge of the camp. After a day of wondering, Bruno finds Shmuel in the camp. Once Bruno got to know Shmuel he tried to plan a way to get him out. Bruno ends up in the camp and the boys are forced to “go take a shower.” Both Shmuel and Bruno passed away. Readers can grasp how horrible it would be to be in Shmuel’s position. People read and become sympathetic because they are able to learn the perspective of someone who is different than
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