Fantasy Versus Reality Deep inside the subconscious mind of a human, there is a gate. A gate that differentiates Fantasy and Reality. Denish Johnsons’ story, “Emergency” clearly shows the contrast between the fantasy and reality worlds. “Emergency” is a story which revolves around two characters, Georgie and the writer himself, and different kinds of situations they get into. His use of different characteristics of characters such as the doctor, nurse, and Terrence Weber symbolizes what we see at our first glance may not be the true reality. He also uses Georgie as one of the main character who misuses drugs, but eventually does good to everyone around him to represent that the true nature of a person cannot be judged by looking at the surface. Finally, he uses the unusual events surrounding Georgie and himself to expose that life is full of uncertain events. What is seen on the surface could not be the true reality. In the eyes of the society everything that one sees believes it in the first glance. But the reality could completely be different that what is seen in general, which is shown by the situation on a Catholic hospital in the story “Emergency”, where a guy with a knife in his eye arrives for help. The doctor after seeing the guy said: …show more content…
No one can predict the future and walk in the direction he or she wants. People may plan for something in their life but may be in completely opposite direction. Humans live a complicated life. The quote from the story “The gusts of snow twisted themselves around our heads while the night fell. I couldn’t find the truck. We just kept getting more and more lost.” This shows how anyone’s life can turn to any direction without them knowing. The writer and Georgie were headed home but were completely lost in matter of moments. This quote shows Johnson’s intention to compare the trip of him and Georgie to a person’s
“Maybe God has a bigger plan for me, than I had for myself.” (Jaime Sullivan, A Walk to Remember). This quote strongly relates to the novel, “Of Mice and Men,” (by John Steinbeck), because of the concept of dreams. These are not only images caused by sleeping, but can be hopes which one has for the future. Many characters in the novel have dreams and goals which they desire to accomplish. Yet, often times, not everything goes as
Georgie is almost a foil to the narrator because he is the one who enjoys saving lives and has a minor hero complex. Georgie is the one who takes the knife out of the man’s eye (109) and saves the baby rabbits from their dead mother (110) and then finally offers to drive an AWOL soldier to Canada for sanctum (114). The narrator just languidly tags along and is unsure sometimes of whether he is even telling the right story. A major theme within the story is sight. Georgie cleans up blood only he sees on the floor (106), then the narrator asks Georgie “Are you completely blind?” (110) after he complains about not seeing the carnival rides, and after getting lost he asks again “Georgie, can you see?” to which Georgie only replies “See what? See what?”(111). There are several more examples, but the message is that neither character is looking at life. Instead, both men are living in darkness because of their drug abuse and refusal to accept reality. The simplistic and deadpan dialogue along with the uncertainty and vagueness of the narrator’s storytelling reveals how unfulfilled the narrator feels and how he believes he is trapped in a tedious life with no
In this society we are influenced by many things as we get older those things change. We can be influenced by people, books, movies and go on living to always have that characteristics and influence with us. We are all influenced by the people around us or are visual viewing. We depend on the future and see the benefits of a task after we are done. In the Canadian Railway Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot stated “for they looked in the future and what did they see they saw an iron road running from the sea to the sea” they saw the future and the good in what was to come out of their work. They saw the benefits of working hard. Gordon Lightfoot spoke “there was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, when the wild majestic mountains
The author feels terrible and outraged about what Vanessa has to go through. She calls Vanessa to Saint Vincent’s to help Vanessa fill out all of the paperwork. Despite the complicated paperwork, Vanessa knows what she needs from experience. As she helps Vanessa fill out the paperwork, Pearson rejects the idea that she is acting as a doctor by helping her fill out paperwork instead of helping her grieve. Pearson also highlights the unjust system from how the caregivers treat patients.
I partially agree with Pangloss’s statement because we never know what the future holds for us and we can never predict our fate therefor what happens to you today (now) or what you have is the best you can get or have in your live. For example, considering
This quote helps resemble how destiny is shown throughout the book; we cannot plan everything correctly because some things are decided by destiny itself. “If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone.
The main character, McMurphy, represents ideas of sexuality, freedom, self-determination. Nurse Ratched represents ideas of sexual repression, authoritarianism, and conservation. Billy Bibbit’s behavior represents and shows the influence and effects that guilt has on people. Ruckly, is a chronic patient that suffers from having too much electroshock therapy, and in his mental state holds a “Jesus Christ” pose, arms out forming a cross. He cannot move unless the “nails” are removed from his hands. The Aides Warren and Williams represent oppression and the unfairness that was to colored people back in the day. How this is represented is the patients use slang towards them and call them “boy.” When the Aides speak they use incorrect grammar and slang. Also due to the oppression and unfairness that they have dealt with all their lives they are very bitter and cruel people. They abuse the patients behind Nurse Ratched’s back and are constantly taunting and teasing them, doing nothing to help the patients already corrupted mental state. Finally, when the Nurse is being choked, the Aides, fed up with doing the same amount of work and getting paid less, and having to obey everything Nurse says, just watch and let it happen behaving almost pleased about the
Gasps, murmurs from the crowd, breaks my panic. Then medics plough through the crowd and with precision put Allie on oxygen and wheel his motionless body away. It feels as though walls are closing in on me, as I try to block out the vicious stares of all the phonies in the crowd. As the ambulance disappears I feel Allie is going far away from me just like those red leaves, falling from the trees sway gently in the autumn wind. My mother and my father, later, walks towards me filled with panic and turns to me, demanding an answer to a question I haven’t heard over the din in my ears.
His analogy states that life is uncertain, unpredictable, and unexpected. It isn’t a simple circle, but an endless continuing line. That goes on forever, he said. And to say what you know is going to happen in the future is a fool’s endeavor, and certainly impossible to even predict. Secondly, another example from Lorraine Hansbery’s book
People are influenced by decisions made in the past. Every situation that a person comes upon can change what happens in the future and because of human's ability to choose we can gain or lose from it. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, decisions made by himself and others around him in the past alter the fathers future.
People seem to think that everything that happens to them everyday is real. The question is, though, “What is real?”. Is everything you see everyday really real or is it fake? We might see fantasies that other people or machines have created for us. Maybe we are the ones that are not enlightened yet. Numerous essays and films have been produced on this subject. One essay is “The Allegory of the Cave” written by Plato in 360 B.C. Also, the movie The Matrix was filmed in 1999. Even though many differences can be drawn between “The Allegory of the Cave” and The Matrix, there are many similarities as well.
Preserving. Never stop. Victory. The. These expressions are portrayed through the character, Mr. Jackson, in the text "The First Great American Road Trip".
It's all in the grand scheme of things, just about perspective in all actuality, no one really knows the future but society views everything like we do know what's going to happen, and we work towards completing goals, or achieving things that we set out to do but in all actuality none of it is going to happen as we planed. Say for instance you set out a goal to make a million dollars by the end of 2016, and you have your plan and everything you know what you're going to do , and you do it and by 2016 you have everything you set out to get, but that's it. During the process of getting to your planned out goal you were dead. You were as probably less human than a wooden table, the reason for that is called target fascination. When you wish for things to happen you, and you don't really know who is or, if it is even you who had the original idea to become rich, you don't really know because your mind is combined with other people's perspective and other peoples thoughts so much to the point where you don't even have your own conceptual idea
Paramedics are experienced medical practitioners, who carry out roles done by physicians and also observe, asses and treat patients using the equipment found in the emergency department. During an emergency, the paramedics are the first health care professionals that are contacted and they then asses the patient’s condition and treat if possible. When Edith’s husband, Roland, called for emergency, the ambulance arrived
Silently, my senses begin to abandon their rationale…who is to say then what is real? The world that we live in, the reality, which we are a part of, is small and thus limited. That is why, in his infinite capacity for potential improvement, man created fantasy. Fantasy is BIG! To a certain extent it is more imaginative, more exciting, and more fun. Fantasy is like a lake where man throws all his ideas and dreams, and then he dives on in from the springboard of imagination. So, jump in to the lake. Why not? Just make sure that when you jump in to the lake you know how to get back from where you came from. Because, no matter how big a fantasy is, to the point that it somehow changes our perception of what is