Wednesday, November 7, 2007

"Red-tinted glasses"

In the chapter 25 from the novel, Sophie's World, it talks about the 'Red tinted glasses', which is just a glasses and everything you see through it is red. I think its a metaphor for how people view the world. Everyone one has their own perspective on the world, like what we have been doing in our past TOK lessons. This would be a drawing of 'school knowledge', mostly everyone view it differently. So metaphoricly the red-tinted glasses makes me realise that there is not only one point of view of things and learn to look at other people's point of views.

It also refers to assignment 1, when the question was "Do we lose the ability to wonder about the world in the process of growing up?". There is a link between the two assignments because we see everything differently when we wear the red-tinted glasses and this might be due to by having obtain more knowledge and understanding of the world during the process of growing up. For example, when we are still a kid, studying in kindergarden school, we would think that the world is peaceful, fun, relaxing, but when we grew up we notice that the world wasn't it seems to be not because the world has changed but our mind has. We know more about the world itself, that there are wars and isn't peaceful. So the red-tinted glasses might shows what we might see as the world in the future. It actually makes us or only me think that is the world right now the way we see it? Even though we have grow up to a stage that we have understood and know more about the world, but is that the end? There is no stop in viewing what the world is, there is no answer or meaning to what the world is to everyone.

2 comments:

Jamie said...
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Jamie said...

I do not agree that this assignment links to the previous assignment. For the first one, we had to discuss whether we had lost our ability to wonder and for this one, we had to see what red tinted glasses meant and how the question of perspective applies to our own lives. I believe that no one is born with a pair of these tinted glasses, it is those who choose not to put them on that realises how the world actually is.