When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday Summary
Alex Giovanni Due 9/25/12
Expository Writing 1:355:101:20 F12
Techniques explanation
Every one communicates in unique ways, often saying the same idea in a totally different way, using their own personal viewpoints this is clear after reading “When I Woke up Tuesday Morning, It was Friday” by Martha Stout, I realized she had the same opinion as Juhani Pallasmaa and Oliver Sacks. All three of them believe that in order to get the most out of life people must try to take in as much of their environment as possible, through their five senses. This thought was central to all of their articles, however none of them just come out and say it; they use examples to help the reader understand, and each one …show more content…
When Stout talks about how someone dealing with a traumatic situation they want to limit the sensory input that may remind them of that event. Towards the end of her article she says “I believed that Julia might be ready to bring up the lights in the cold, dark house of her past,” (Stout 398) and prior to this, Julia says, “what if you aren’t actually experiencing life.” This leads me to believe that Stout actually thinks that absorbing all of your surroundings is very important, she just had to explain it in a way using a very literal direction. So really Stout believes the same thing as Pallasmaa, that in order to fully experience life we must absorb our surroundings through all of our senses fully. Pallasmaa goes about explaining this same idea in a different way, he chooses to show how we as a society are not doing what Stout believes we should be, he says we are focused on visually pleasing things, therefore we are not able to really experience life, it is demonstrated when Pallasmaa is talking about ideal architecture incorporates all of the senses so that we can fully appreciate it, Pallasmaa says “architecture experience brings the world into a most intimate contact with the body” (Pallasmaa 298). He is saying that in order to have the greatest possible connection with your surroundings you must use all of your senses, in other words, in order to fully experience life you must take in all of the experience. Instead of just coming out and saying this, Pallasmaa chooses to explain his ideas using emotionally associated examples, such as how we are missing out on what the smells of our surroundings can tell us, or how the sounds can tell us
Expository Writing 1:355:101:20 F12
Techniques explanation
Every one communicates in unique ways, often saying the same idea in a totally different way, using their own personal viewpoints this is clear after reading “When I Woke up Tuesday Morning, It was Friday” by Martha Stout, I realized she had the same opinion as Juhani Pallasmaa and Oliver Sacks. All three of them believe that in order to get the most out of life people must try to take in as much of their environment as possible, through their five senses. This thought was central to all of their articles, however none of them just come out and say it; they use examples to help the reader understand, and each one …show more content…
When Stout talks about how someone dealing with a traumatic situation they want to limit the sensory input that may remind them of that event. Towards the end of her article she says “I believed that Julia might be ready to bring up the lights in the cold, dark house of her past,” (Stout 398) and prior to this, Julia says, “what if you aren’t actually experiencing life.” This leads me to believe that Stout actually thinks that absorbing all of your surroundings is very important, she just had to explain it in a way using a very literal direction. So really Stout believes the same thing as Pallasmaa, that in order to fully experience life we must absorb our surroundings through all of our senses fully. Pallasmaa goes about explaining this same idea in a different way, he chooses to show how we as a society are not doing what Stout believes we should be, he says we are focused on visually pleasing things, therefore we are not able to really experience life, it is demonstrated when Pallasmaa is talking about ideal architecture incorporates all of the senses so that we can fully appreciate it, Pallasmaa says “architecture experience brings the world into a most intimate contact with the body” (Pallasmaa 298). He is saying that in order to have the greatest possible connection with your surroundings you must use all of your senses, in other words, in order to fully experience life you must take in all of the experience. Instead of just coming out and saying this, Pallasmaa chooses to explain his ideas using emotionally associated examples, such as how we are missing out on what the smells of our surroundings can tell us, or how the sounds can tell us