Final Essay

Final Essay

Leslie Rodriguez

Introduction

-Explain how Autopoesis is a system that recreates itself -Texts are always changing

Thesis

-The Years: Reflects memory -Allah is Not Obliged: Its destructive -The Absolute is a round die: Get interpreted everytime someone reads it

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-The Years: Reflects memory Focus: Memory + Identity Not a normal autobiography Mixing personal + Collective memory Autopoesis: Memory reshapes identity over time Uses "We" instead of "I" Past/Memories are always being reconstructed

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-Allah is Not Obliged: War endless cycle Focus: Violence becomes normal in an endless cycle War creates war Cycle of violence Children are pulled into war Identity is broken No clear escape Autopoesis: War is a self sustaning idea that keeps building into an endless cycle

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-The Absolute is a Round Die: Poetry and interpretations Focus: Meaning comes from reader Meaning is always changing Every reader has a new meaning Autopoesis: Every reader changes the story line and the theme of the stories

Conclusion

-Systems are always rearranging themselves -Meaning is never fixed Its not exactly what a text means from the writer but how the reader interprets it