Sunday, November 17, 2019

Deconstruction of Lost and Found

Hollaa everybody!!
It's been a long time dirndimake any blog.
Okay, in this time I will give you an information about deconstruction and give some example.

Deconstruction, in essence, allows the reader to “take apart” a text in order to decipher a new meaning.  It rejects traditional readings and instead, calls readers to seek out contradictory viewpoints and analysis.  There is a focus on the actual rhetoric and verbiage of the text as opposed to looking for the author’s intent.  When looking through a deconstruction lens, a reader would pay close attention to word choice and syntax, as so many words have multiple connotations and denotations.  The reader would look for meaning, not only hidden, but possibly unintended by the author.  “Deconstructionist critics probe beneath the finished surface of a story.  Having been written by a human being with unresolved conflicts and contradictory emotions, a story may disguise rather than reveal the underlying anxieties or perplexities of the author.  Below the surface, unresolved tensions or contradictions may account for the true dynamics of the story.” (Guth & Rico p. 336)  To deconstruct a text is to show that it may have multiple meanings associated with it; there is not one correct reading, but a myriad of possibilities.
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So I took the example from the previous story, "Lost and Found", story by Subba Rao and illustrated by FXnColor Studio. 



I'll tell you a little about "Lost and Found" again.
Ten pundits (holy men) who go to the Ganges River to swim in the river. They hold hands while swimming. When they came for the third time, they did not hold hands. After finishing swimming they queued and there was 1 person who counted. When counting it turned out there were only 9 people, and they thought one of their friends was drowned. Even though the amount counted does not include the counters. Then there is the hat seller watching all the drama. Then he offered to help count but the saints refused because the seller was uneducated unlike those who were educated in reading well the scriptures. Then the hat seller suggests wearing the hat he sells and then puts the hat on the ground and then the hat is counted and after everything is counted, it amounts to 10 hats. The pundits thought the hat was magical and then they bought it. Hat sellers charge one rupee for each hat, and walk away happily with ten coins jingling in his pocket.

In that story I got a deconstruction, Ten experts (saints) who feel themselves smarter than hat trader, can be fooled too. So it's not always a saint or a smart person is smart because surely they can be cheated too. 

So yupp, that's the example of deconstruction, if anyone of you still doesn't understand, you can write your question in the box comment.