Notably, the Greek philosopher Plato in "Phaedrus" said: "Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many". Often, when absorbing information, we underestimate the power of digging deeper than the surface of a content, instead, we accept things as presented. Nowadays, media literacy plays an important role in the way we learn and absorb information. Throughout my English Composition course, I learned how to absorb media through writing a literary analysis (A Rose for Emily), see how plays get turned into musicals or movies to adjust to a certain era (Play to Movie) and creating order out of chaos (Mixtape). After being on every side of the creative process, the way I absorb media changed.
During the first two weeks of the course, we learned different types of criticisms which we later used to analyze "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. Out of the exhaustive list, there was one criticism that I judge would help understand the deeper meaning of the passage; deconstruction. According to Dictionary.com, deconstruction is a philosophical and critical movement, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality. Although at first, the text confused me, however, as I deconstructed and analyzed each piece of the excerpt, I understood a glimpse of the author's mind and the reason for choosing to write this way. Furthermore, to reach that goal the main element Faulkner used was temporal shifts.…show more content… As the audience, I read the passage multiple times and rearrange it until it all made sense. "A Rose for Emily" changed the way I absorb media by giving me no choice but to look closely and analyze the text to understand deconstruction and its role when
