Flash Facts

Image Source:  https://www.ted.com/ Tyler Cowen (in his Ted Talk found here ) tells his audience that he believes we as humans should be more comfortable with living in the chaos of our lives. He contends that we too easily fall back on the simple structure of a story to talk about something that happened or in order to justify ourselves. Mr. Cowen cites a book by Christopher Booker, which states that there are only seven types of stories: monster, rags to riches, quest, voyage and return, comedy. tragedy, and rebirth. Cowen claims that these seven story archetypes dominate are how we most commonly recall events, talk to others, and justify our decisions. The problem with this, Cowen claims, is that stories take a lot of information and proceed to leave some in and take some out. When stories act as these kinds of filters, they tend to leave the same things in and essentially boil down to the same aforementioned story archetypes. This means that we are, in a way, telling...

Chapter 3: "To this rule...This is a matter I thought we had agreed to drop" (pg. 12-13) (Keerti) In this excerpt, Mr. Utterson talks to Dr. Jekyll for the first time in the book. Dr. Jekyll is characterized as a large, good-looking man of around 50 years of age. He is described as caring and kindhearted, especially towards his friend Mr. Utterson. When Utterson talks to Jekyll about the will, Jekyll brushes it off and seems to be very lighthearted about the topic. He tries to deviate from it by bringing up his thoughts about Dr. Lanyon and their disagreements. Utterson, however, is very serious about the matter. When Utterson questions Jekyll about Hyde, the panic is clearly visible on his face and he becomes cold and reserved in appearance - "The large, handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes". This shows Utterson that there is definitely something suspicious about the matter. In comparison...