Response to Sarah's Presentation

Thesis Paraphrased: Silent narrator's and character's like Ottilie are a mechanism through which the paradoxes of silence are revealed? i.e. silence pulls the narrator and characters apart.

I really enjoyed your incorporation of postmodernity as it pertains to silence. The ways in which you incorporated Western and Eastern views as they pertain to silence were very interesting. The fact that Western ideology is very uncomfortable with the ways in which Eastern views perceive silence as a void is very interesting and very pertinent to postmodernity.

Holiday: Isolation- the ways in which you separated the various degrees of isolation was brilliant. Thinking about Ottilie as a subject was very keen and insightful. I like the ways in which you imply that Ottilie fills that void, that bridge between Eastern and Western views in that, due to childhood disease, Ottilie, within a house of isolation, is defined as the only individual precisely because she has come to embrace her isolation.

*The ultimate goal of communication is to realize the subjectivity of the individual whom you are discussing with.* This point is wonderful. I liked the ways in which you used Eastern philosophy to address this point. I think on a daily basis this is something that we, as individuals experience, yet do not realize. As a culture that values progress, we are quick to search for the value in things, the value of speech, the value of conversation. However, that is not the point that KAP makes in Holiday. Subjectivity is everything.