Allegory Wrong Number

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Up in the sky, glistening with its white glow. Is it white? Is it yellow? Why does it matter? It is glowing right. From far below you see something hidden behind the clouds. What is it? You sit there wondering when the thought of a moon pops in your head. Outside it is dark, so it must be a moon. That right there is called your perception. The feelings and answers that you get from your senses which may be true but at the same time could be wrong is called perception. You look at the sky again. You don't see the cloud anymore instead you see the so called moon in its place. You look at it closer. It is not a moon! It in fact was a star, glowing behind the clouds. That right there is what you call reality! The things that actually happen are …show more content…

Stories have a way on taking the reader´s connection to a viewpoint that will make the people believe that something so obvious is not going to happen. But that is not true. The most compelling evidence is in the play ¨Sorry Wrong Number.¨ Reality is the truth- not perception, which overrides the brain making it think that the illusionary effects are true, it is proposed that in the story ¨Sorry Wrong Number,¨ Mrs Stevenson believes that she would not get murdered because she is all alone, and she is such a sweet person. But is that reality? Is that what actually happens? This demonstrates that perception of reality is not at all trustworthy. For instance in Line # 383-#390 it states, ¨And you address? 53 North Sutton Place. That's near a bridge The Queensboro Bridge, you know-any we have a private patrolman on our street. And Second Avenue¨ This highlights that Mrs.Stevenson knowing that the whole place she described from the phone call relates exactly to her, but yet she knows that she is not getting murdered. Furthermore, in Line #483-#489 it states, ¨Unless of course, you have some reason for thinking this call is phony, and that someone may be planning to murder you? Me? Oh no I hardly think so. I mean why should anybody? I´m alone all day and night.¨ This confirms the concept that Mrs.Stevenson is so blinded in her mental illness and in her husband that she never realizes that the bad ending comes to her. This evidence …show more content…

By this I mean that everyone has a thinking of their own, and to their reason and logic there can be two sides. Some people can choose one side while other people choose the other. Like that different points of view mean different things. For example in the story ¨Saving the Lost¨ by Reynaldo Vasquez, it stated ¨Her brain showed activity in the exact same spot as healthy people would do if they thought of walking through the rooms of their homes. Owen believed that this showed that the patient was conscious.¨ This explains that Owen made a discovery that when brain dead people were asked questions they respond the same way a healthy person would respond, so they were not completely brain dead. To prove this Owen did this experiment on this women and asked her to imagine walking through the rooms of her home, and her brain activity showed the exact same spot as a healthy person would imagine walking through the rooms of their home. This is what Owen had discovered through his research. Another example is stated in Line #32-33, ¨Some researchers agreed with Owen, while others disagreed. They believed that the response was an involuntary reaction to the final words that Owen said to the patient.¨ This shows that his idea can have two sides which mean different things. Like some people did think yes, the brain dead people were still conscious due to the same way brain dead people's brain activity matched with

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