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Blog Post #1- The Island Q.8 (Prompt)

Prompt Question from “The Island.”

Question: Consider the quote below. How does power emerge in “The Island”? How is the connection between language and power revealed in the quote? Support your thinking with evidence from the text.

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Answer: Looking at this quote by Julia Penelope, you notice that she speaks about how we use the power of language and turn it into a reality. I find this to be true because, I find that people use language as a way to gain power and also as a way to maintain their power. Looking into the story “The Island” you see how the police use their authority to make a lot of calls over the fate of the man, in a way. For example, the police were trying to convince the doctors and the social worker that this man was crazy (paragraph 42). They (the police) seemed to be trying to get rid of the man the whole time. They used their words to show that they withhold a type of power over the man.

 

 

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