Question

"This idea of telling as creation, however, may threaten those who regard themselves as dutiful observers of reality and careful scribes of what is found."

To illustrate your position, weave in examples from Charon.

Answer 1

"This idea of telling as creation, however, may threaten those who regard themselves as dutiful observers of reality and careful scribes of what is found." The Dermatologist describes a skin rash as a dry erithematous eruptions with silver scaling periphery. It is a case of psoriasis identical to many others seen, there is no creativity in that act of describing,merely a transparent rendering of fact, not so what one sees, once seing is influenced by prior categories, diagnostic impulses, comparative memory, conventionalised diction, and concurrent clinical facts that suggests this diagnosis. The artist and the dermatologist would see and describe in differnt way, the artist responds to colour,form and texture and the dermatologist responds to taxonomy, pathalogy and probability. Selfmaking and selftelling are about as public activities, autobiography is still recognized as a effort by a writer or a narrator to reflect on, recapture, reinterpret and represent to readers as events in his lifer or her life thar taken together and in perticular sequence and frame in which they are provided makes sense of it.

Psychologist and neural scientist have studied the developement of memory and knowledge of self through childhood.Landmark studies in a highly dynamic and ever changing self knowledge not laid down permanently in the brain but always reengineered by new experiences that alter old memories,what happens to you, what you remember and how you tell about it are mututal forces that contribute to your sense of yourself overtime. Young children explain their experiences to themselves almost as if trying to relieve or recapture on what has happened, autobiographers do the same thing as they write of themselves , it developes through adolescent diaries and sometimes,results in written and published life writing.