What defines the complexities in this world? What determines our individual separation yet unites us at the same time? What causes each of us to act differently than those around us? As each of us travels through our own journey that we call life, we create an assimilation of experiences that are used in reference when making future actions. On a day to day basis our minds accumulate more and more of these experiences which can produce different expectations and a unique sense of structure in each individual's life. In the book Odds Against Tomorrow, by Nathaniel Rich, we are exposed to these complex and diverse senses of order that can also be described as perspectives. Although we are exposed to the plot through and primarily around the
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Perspective is an interaction with the world rather than a literal viewing through our eyes. It is not created through a physical angle of sight, nor does it change when looking at something from the left or the right. Nevertheless, it is what comes to effect how we interpret the world around us, and what we choose to specifically absorb from our surroundings. It’s an interaction that can become altered through the intensity and time in which one endures a situation. Now in the book, to help develop our ideas concerning perspectives, we are introduced to a character named Elsa Bruner early on. Elsa suffers from a potentially fatal health impairment called Brugada Syndrome, and between pages 8 and 12 the reader is already exposed to one of her Brugada episodes. As it goes with Elsa, she has essentially experienced death, and every time her heart stops or beats irregularly there is a possibility that it won't continue to beat correctly again. With that in mind someone would reasonably suppose that fear envelopes Elsa’s life. That in response to what she has experienced or endured, (her fainting spells and fatal condition) her perspective or interaction with the world would be very cautious, careful, or even one that showed the slightest of fear. This would then bring one to the conclusion that perspectives are influenced or changed by the experiences that one has endured. However, it is in fact the complete
Perspective is an interaction with the world rather than a literal viewing through our eyes. It is not created through a physical angle of sight, nor does it change when looking at something from the left or the right. Nevertheless, it is what comes to effect how we interpret the world around us, and what we choose to specifically absorb from our surroundings. It’s an interaction that can become altered through the intensity and time in which one endures a situation. Now in the book, to help develop our ideas concerning perspectives, we are introduced to a character named Elsa Bruner early on. Elsa suffers from a potentially fatal health impairment called Brugada Syndrome, and between pages 8 and 12 the reader is already exposed to one of her Brugada episodes. As it goes with Elsa, she has essentially experienced death, and every time her heart stops or beats irregularly there is a possibility that it won't continue to beat correctly again. With that in mind someone would reasonably suppose that fear envelopes Elsa’s life. That in response to what she has experienced or endured, (her fainting spells and fatal condition) her perspective or interaction with the world would be very cautious, careful, or even one that showed the slightest of fear. This would then bring one to the conclusion that perspectives are influenced or changed by the experiences that one has endured. However, it is in fact the complete