Silence. n text A, which is a passage from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, and text B, which is a song lyric titled The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon, both are describing silence, however in different contexts

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Silence Essay

        Novels integrate creative imagination with perception and sensitivity along with language, tone, repetition, omissions, and inclusions to help us recognize ambiguities, interpret signs and cues, form conclusions from incomplete data, and decipher underlying meanings. Literature represents the author’s personality because it was distinctly brought about by his/her own thoughts thus authors can create different settings and descriptions of a situation, this is exactly what is seen in the two texts in question here. In text A, which is a passage from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, and text B, which is a song lyric titled “The Sound of Silence” by Paul Simon, both are describing silence, however in different contexts. Text A is written in third person narrative and it portrays how silence, in this science fiction novel, is making Isidore visualize kipple merging and mixing. Kipple is waste and junk that tends to reproduce itself. On the other hand, text B is written in first person narrative and the speaker is describing silence and how it portrays a lack of communication with one another owing to globalization and increased technology that comes between two humans connecting with one another. This can be seen by the lines “words, like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells of silence”. Even though silence in both texts are portrayed as alive, silence in text A is the result of the lack of people on earth, whereas silence in Text B is caused by lack of communication with others because of technology.

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        In text A, the author personifies silence as it is described as “visible, in its own way, alive. Alive!” This is ironic as the traditional view on silence is that it is considered and referred to as dead but everything stated to merge together in Isidore’s apartment. With silence, and when nobody is around, Isidore visualizes “broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen” rising and the “silence as visible”. Similarly, text B also personifies silence as alive as he describes how his words echoed “in the wells of silence” and making an imagery of everything that flows like water into ...

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