Tuesday, October 23, 2007

The Intuitionist 2

In the last half of "The Intuitionist," much was added to the allegory of this book. I saw a very religious side to it, too, aside from race. I saw Fulton's notebook as being a metaphor for the Bible; everyone reads it a different way and gets a different message from it. It's messages can be taken out of context. Maybe the black box was something that never really existed but was a false hope for the people to have faith in. This sounds rather pessimistic, but people will probably always have some defect, they are not perfect. Also, the elevator inspectors thought that Lila Mae was important since her name was written in the notebook, but we saw that Fulton was just writing her name in the margin almost unknowingly; he didn't really mean anything by it. So, the notebooks seemed to symbolize the Bible or any religious writings to me. I also thought of the elevators as people in general, rather than slaves, towards the end of the book. I thought the idealistic black box would be "the perfect elevator," or, a person who didn't factor race/gender/any differences into the way they viewed people. The perfect person would look beyond the "skin of things."

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