Humanities 1
“A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us”.
A quote from Franz Kafka explains that a book should be an item, which releases your creativity, allowing you to think outside the box. Kafka says that a ‘book should be an ice ax to break the frozen sea within us’. If you were to literally think of a frozen sea within you, it is like an immobile sea trapping knowledge, curiosity, and thoughts. A book allows you to think things through so you can see the true meaning clearly. Having a frozen sea within us shows that we don’t see and do things different and special, but all the same. A book, which is represented as a weapon, is what will allow us all to break from the prison of non imaginativeness.
Kafka’s quote also explains that a book should allow you to break yourself free from your lazy ego. Kafka states that many people only have one point of view on the world but a book is what allows people to see things differently and act in a different way. The Fire Thief trilogy by Tearry Dearry broke the frozen sea within me. The book had created on a story from 3rd person view of a whole new story involving the same characters of the Greek myth, Prometheus. The book made me think, what if time traveling was possible? What if we could know god of the ancient Greek myths which traveled into our time. The trilogy kept me busy over the summer, making me wonder about our world today.
I chose this picture by Maurits Cornelis Escher because it seemed interesting how there’s a drawing of lizards, and then there are the real looking lizards. There are half alive half drawing lizards. Escher’s drawing shows that having only one point of view will only show you one side of the picture. A book is what will allow you to see things different and clearly see both sides of the picture. How a book can unleash the creativity in you allowing you to see the drawing both alive and drawn.
Sources:
http://faculty.smu.edu/cwsmith/Escher_1.jpg
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