Analyzing Oliver Sacks

Perceptions of the World The world can be perceived in many different ways. The blind, the deaf, children, adults, teenagers, parents, all “see” the world in a different way. It is an author’s job to convey how he “sees” the world to his readers. Oliver Sacks does this quite well. Through his use of analogies and other rhetorical strategies, Oliver Sacks greatly enhances the reader’s view of a newly sighted man’s life …

…Virgil probably would have told his story in a totally different manner than Sacks chose. So in a way, there is no “true” story. Everyth! ing is “seen” in a different way by different people. Works Cited Coles, Robert. “The Tradition: Fact and Fiction.” Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers. Ed. David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. 1999. 175-195. Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**