"Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaker for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. Adah Price, The Posionwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
2006-09-26 06:36:06 · 5 answers · asked by Crockett H 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Hmm. I don't know the reference, but it seems the speaker is saying that most of what you think you see is really an illusion. Civilization is full of assumptions - we assume people are like us, or we assume they are totally different from us, when the truth is probably somewhere in-between. What we interpret of what we see most often becomes our reality.
2006-09-26 06:46:11 · answer #1 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you start the quotation marks but don't end them. Is this an exact quotation? If it is it has several grammar mistakes.
Should "illusions" be "Illusion's"
Should the "are" in the same sentence be "is"?
Since you have also shown "Posionwood" in place of "Poisonwood" perhaps the mistakes are yours.
In any case, this seems to be a statement which appears vague but is in fact meaningless.
2006-09-26 13:48:08 · answer #2 · answered by Grey Bear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The quote is referring to the idea that in order for mankind to make progress, we must make mistakes; we must overthrow the false illusions of a previous age, and proceed with new hypotheses, and get closer and closer to what is "True".
Mankind "walks upon" the "pavement of illusions".
2006-09-26 13:45:55 · answer #3 · answered by Joya 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't truly understand the world. We each see something different and base our truth on that.
2006-09-26 14:20:42 · answer #4 · answered by puma 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't assume what you cannot see..!!
2006-09-26 14:03:59 · answer #5 · answered by ozzy chik... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋