Beauty found in a glass manufacturing industry.

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Daniel Hutt        26.11.03

Beauty found in a glass manufacturing industry

This piece of text is about the refining skills that it takes to make glass. It gives the reader an idea of how beauty is not always so obvious, and that sometimes one really needs to go further than just looking at a flower to find it. This part of the text explains the deceiving perceptions of what some people might consider beautiful, and how beauty is not always easily noticed.

To have a good idea of what happens in this text, the author begins this part by describing what happens at the end of the passage before going through the details that took place before. We know this because Carey writes “Had you, and hour before, asked him to tell you what he would call beautiful he would have drawn on the natural world”. This illustrates a change in opinion, but the reason for this change is unknown.  This makes the reader want to continue with anticipation because once they read the beginning (which is somewhat unclear) they will want to figure out what happens throughout the rest of the passage.

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This brings me on to my next topic which is the distinctive themes of this text. We find a certain clash between the typical beauty of the country side and the hidden beauty of a glass manufacturing industry. When Oscar first enters the factory he fails to notice any attractiveness to it whatsoever. For him, something beautiful is quite typical (nature, countryside) and it has to be something safe. When he enters this building he is only concerned about his safety and fallows his first impressions. However, after learning more about the making of glass he changed his mind ...

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