Perception Vs. Reality In Heartbeat By David Yoo

Have you been fooled by a magic trick or an illusion before in your life? If you did, then you have gone through the conflict between perception and reality. What is perception and reality anyway? Basically, perception is what you see in your view, but reality is what is really happening. That’s why in my opinion, perception is not reality because during magic tricks, your brain will fool you and also your eyes can do the same. Magic is something that everyone has been fooled by before, but is it really magic? Obviously not, the magician uses the human brain and eye to get the man or woman tricked. According to a text called Magic and the Brain by Martinez-Conde and Macknick, the brain gets fooled by the magician when he persuades the human
Everybodies friend has hidden something from them before and we all probably missed that something. Heartbeat is a short story that is written by David Yoo that supports this reason very well. In this story, a teenager tries to build muscle because his friends keep teasing him with the name heartbeat. To stop that, he wears shirts to look bulkier and stronger, but no one noticed that he was wearing shirts. For instance, “Have you been working out, Dave? You look bigger.” I couldn’t tell if she was being sarcastic. I went home and inspected myself in the mirror. I did look bigger! But then I realized the reason: I’d accidentally worn two T-shirts under my rugby shirt that day.” Yes, this shows that his friends were tricked, but what if he actually did build muscle? Yes, he could have, but his friends would still have not noticed that he built muscle. There is a more chance of them still calling him heartbeat than them giving up on calling him
In this play, a women named Mrs.Stevenson overhears a call about a murder about a women who lived near a bridge, but later doesn’t realize that the address told was her address. Obviously, she didn’t think that her perception was reality because she thought that as long as she was near the telephone, she would be alright. An example from the text that includes my reasoning is, “53 North Sutton Place. That’s near a bridge. The Queensboro Bridge, you know—and we have a private patrol-man on our street. And Second Avenue—.” This piece of text evidence clearly shows that Mrs. Stevenson didn’t realize that this was the exact address that the murderer said. This also shows that the human brain can sometimes not be alert about a real-life situation that is going to happen to the human. The brain will not think that this is a harm to the persons life so it will ignore the important