Morrison was eager to be sociable and friendly to the neighbour
Morrison meditates on the need for humans to meet strangers and their effects on human endeavours. According to Morrison, people would be better by not meeting strangers and by creating a total distance by creating gates between one another. When humans meet one another, the feeling of welcome takes over them, and they create a connection through the stranger’s language and image. Strangers bring back memories of things or people that on has been in contact with. Through these memories, Morrison argues that individuals feel the need to invite strangers into their homes as they share drinks and stories through laughter. But strangers in Morrison’s case did not bring any good memories since she distanced herself after the creation of a connection.
Morrison was eager to be sociable and friendly to the neighbour. According to Morrison, humans feel that strangers will disturb people is welcomed. The image of the old fisherwoman and the need to see her again disturbs Morrison to the extent that he feels betrayed and cheated. When it reaches the point to which strangers disturb the people, Morrison argues that this is a point of no return and the stranger can turn the private life of a person to a public hell. Morrison argues that religion and art warn people about the influence of strangers to the lives of the people. Artists warn that strangers will influence people to look away from the art. Religious prophets, on the other hand, warn people on love and possession influenced by the strangers.
Morrison argues that connections and distance are not the effects of the strangers that people meet. He argues that his obsession with the fisherwoman was unreasonable. Something greater was influencing him. Some aspects of him were being realized. Some version of a person makes them need to govern, administrate and own other people. The emptiness and the feeling of loneliness existed within Morrison and through the connections and later the distancing with the fisherwoman; these feelings were revived, making him feel betrayed and cheated. In the quest to satisfy what our feelings are, Morrison argues that human overlook the stranger’s personhood and individuality.
In conclusion, the feel to connect with people is directed by our inner feelings which do not want to come out. The fear that the strangers will disturb these feelings of owning and possessing them to make individuals distance from each other. The strangers are not aliens but deeper feelings in our souls that define our relation and power towards each other. The artist, such as Robert Bergman, understands this inner person and used the portraits to create history and memories of moments and events he went through.
Part 2
Morrison uses the media and art to indicate the effects of strangers to a person. Morrison argues that the media uses image and language to alter the vision and beliefs of individuals into their own ideas. Art, according to Morrison, is the use of pictures to present what is human and what is the truth. According to Morrison, the media, art and stranger serve the same purposes through their interactions. Media is, therefore, an important part of the society that helps in sharing of information, and individuals affect. What does Morrison mean by comparing the role of the media and art, to the role of a stranger to a person?
Morrison use of the media as a tool used to influence the people presents the media as an important aspect in the lives of people which cannot be avoided. He argues that ‘succumbing to the media can blur vision, resisting them can do the same.’ I believe the media changes people’s perceptions by giving them new information. In the same way, strangers change people by impacting them with new experiences and ideas. The absences of strangers compare to avoidance of media in bringing new ideas; thus, individuals have poor judgments regarding others. Stranger change and media affect
Morrison got influenced by the stranger, and her absence altered the way he would interact with other people. Morrison argues that media affects a person’s intimacy levels and broader knowledge about themselves. The media increases the views of what humans need and ought to become in society. Morrison argues media ‘narrows our picture of what humans look like, and what we are like’. He believes that media changes the identity of a person by introducing new concepts different from the ones that define their identity. The media presents further information to the audience to identify their ways and behaviours. In the same case, strangers influence each other through bond the bond they create.
The media and art, as well as humans, affects the experience of a person towards other people. Media is a platform in which individuals get information and analyze it to make their personal decisions. Media enables the audience to analyze problems through social change strategies and allows them to redefine their identity over time.