Deliverance Disorientation leads to knowledge
Disorientation leads to knowledge. Man can learn from being in a situation that is unfamiliar to him. No matter what one learns from a teacher, a parent, or a book, the only way to ever learn something is to experience it. Whether it is a job, sport, or learning survival, in order to learn from events such as these, a person must experience them. The novel Deliverance is a great example on how disorientation leads to knowledge. All four characters leave their trip with different beliefs. They all change their initial feelings of disorientation. Lewis's belief is based on doing. He states, "...it's not going to be what your title says you do, but what you end up doing." In this quote Lewis is talking about survival. He says that the only thing that matters in a survival scenario is what a person is capable of, not his position. Lewis believes that survival depends on the human body and he wants to be physically prepared. "I decided that survival was not in the rivets and the metal, and not in the double-sealed doors and not in the marbles of Chinese checkers. It was in me." Although he adopted this idea as his article of faith, he later fails to live up to its standards. Lewis prepares for this type of
It is a survival issue for Bobby before he even gets on the river. He wanted to go home before he even started down the river. His main objective is to survive the journey home. Bobby's achieves this by complaining excessively. He says, "George ain't doing it fast enough. I want to get the hell and gone out of this goddamned place...Mosquitoes ate me up last night. My bites have got bites. I'm catching a *censored*ing cold from sleeping on the *censored*ing ground. I'm hungry as hell for something that tastes good." Bobby is also harmful to the group. He is weak both mentally and physically. He needs people to advise him what to do. Instead of enjoying himself, Bobby concentrates on arbitrary subjects such as their cars. He states, "What're we going to do if we come off this river, and there're no cars." Yet, when things become more serious, he stops nagging and learns to survive by keeping his mouth shut and listening to the others. Drew, the morally responsible person in the group, believes in doing things lawfully. When Lewis shoots the hillbilly, Drew immediately says to go to the authorities. "But I can't go along with this. It's not a matter of guts; it's a matter of the law." However, Lewis answers, "You see any law around here? We're the law. What we decide is going t
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