Persistence Of Vision Analysis

Imagine yourself living in a community of people who are nothing like you, and will never become like you. In Varley’s “Persistence of Vision” the Keller community is full of deaf-blind people who have created their own way of living to better help themselves survive. The Kellerites are welcoming to any visitors that want to experience how they deaf-blind live, however, these visitors may not want to stay very long. Anyone who decides they want to step into the world of the deaf-blind society have to be prepared to experience a world of “bodytalk.” Although the Keller community is welcoming, I claim that anyone visiting will have a difficult time wanting to stay because they will never feel like they are fully a part of their world. A community that is full of a certain type of something will create a life that will help only them become successful, they have no focus on helping out those that are hearing or seeing. The Kellerites have no reason to change their ways to help those that are unlike them be happy. The Keller community has “a way of living that was by and for the blind-deaf” (Varley 20). In this community they have created their own language that helps them communicate in …show more content…
At that point if you didn’t like touching then there is no point in staying there any longer to even learn the language. Once you learn that it is all about touch you would realize right then and there that you won’t last very long. I couldn’t quite feel comfortable having many, many different hands all over my body. Not only are hands on my body, but I would have to be touching others just as much. The people in the Keller community are known to be pansexual, thus meaning that you are touching people in the same and opposite gender. It may take me a long period of time to get confident in touching all different types of people. People may feel this is too much to stay in the deaf-blind world. Connect this to the