Assignment 2

Revisit the "red-tinted glasses" extended metaphor in Chapter 25 ('Kant').What's the meaning of it? How do these questions of perspective apply to your own life? Use examples from the novel and your life to illustrate your understanding of the "red-tinted glasses"metaphor/experiment.

The metaphor "Red-tinted glasses" implies that our views of the world can be different depending on our own experiences during life. It comes down to how each person look at things, how people take things in, personal perspective. Each person's perspective will change depending on several things, religious, communities and influences of friends and families.

An example of it will be people that are overweight. In some places, people discriminate people that are overweight, they mocks them, treated them differently compare to other people. These people are also human beings, they have the same rights as other people, its just because their sizes people treat them unfairly. However in some places, people are very keen to help those overweight people, they run courses that will help them to loose weight. All of them are human beings, it's just the way people experience things that make them treat people differently.

Another example will be the disable people. Often people look at them at a weird or unfriendly perspective, thinking that these disable people are less important in the world so they treat these disable people differently. In other's perspective, although disable people are slightly different in physically or mentally, but they are not useless in the world, they also have their own rights to live and say. They might even be smarter than the normal people in some ways, just because their actions, people treat them different. Therefore I think that this is really unfair for the disable people.

Personally I think that everyone's perspective will change as we experience more things. No one will have the same perspective throughout their life, although we can't control how other people's perspective about things, but we always can control our own. We can also make things a little brighter just by looking it in another angle. I think that my perspective can be affected by my surrounding, community and friends / families. Although my perspective can easily be changed, but I will always think and look before I actually take an action which hopefully won't hurt anyone or anything. I believe that this "red-tinted glasses" is only blinding us from the truth, protecting us from the reality of the world.