The Magic Show By Tim O Brien Summary
In ‘‘The Magic Show,'' by Tim O'Brien he breaks down a comparison of writing to magic. Early on in O'Brien's life he discovered that he liked performing magic he felt as if he was making miracles happen. When performing magic the outcome is based on an illusion creating a misleading appearance, forming something into a newly impression of reality. In magic the audience should always be wondering how the trick will end and how the magician performed the trick just as with writing an essay you lead readers on so that they wonder what will happen next, trying to figure out how it will end, and still at the end leaving the reader to ponder the reading. One event leads to another to create a plot. Reader’s curiosity basically leads to the questions
of what may be going to happen next and why is it happening. Without questions there is no desire to keep looking for answers. Realizing sometimes that not knowing everything is the excitement in reading or even watching a magic trick we look for answers and even with this passage O'Brien still leaves the mind to wonder upon the points he has for readers to think on.
O’Brien writes ‘’the human craving to know what cannot be known’’ (3). In my observation of myself and others when we don’t know something we are eager to figure out what it is that we don’t know. Often times are mind seems to ponder with thoughts as if we always have to encounter conclusions in our life. We always think that knowing the ending result is better than a surprise ending but that’s not always the case. An example that helps me to understand on a deeper depth is when I meet someone new and right from the start I am anxious to find out every detail about this person. After the person begins to tell me about their self l begin to think of blurs between like certain things are being left out. When these things are left out there is no way I can just sit back and wait to be told the moments left out I am just to hesitate to figure it out. But once I figure it out I question myself on why I was such in a hurry to figure out something that should have been told later on. While it’s good to always jump to conclusions and crave the ending to everything stepping back and enjoying whatever moments it may be and taking time to get to the end by far way more interesting then to just know the ending from the start.
of what may be going to happen next and why is it happening. Without questions there is no desire to keep looking for answers. Realizing sometimes that not knowing everything is the excitement in reading or even watching a magic trick we look for answers and even with this passage O'Brien still leaves the mind to wonder upon the points he has for readers to think on.
O’Brien writes ‘’the human craving to know what cannot be known’’ (3). In my observation of myself and others when we don’t know something we are eager to figure out what it is that we don’t know. Often times are mind seems to ponder with thoughts as if we always have to encounter conclusions in our life. We always think that knowing the ending result is better than a surprise ending but that’s not always the case. An example that helps me to understand on a deeper depth is when I meet someone new and right from the start I am anxious to find out every detail about this person. After the person begins to tell me about their self l begin to think of blurs between like certain things are being left out. When these things are left out there is no way I can just sit back and wait to be told the moments left out I am just to hesitate to figure it out. But once I figure it out I question myself on why I was such in a hurry to figure out something that should have been told later on. While it’s good to always jump to conclusions and crave the ending to everything stepping back and enjoying whatever moments it may be and taking time to get to the end by far way more interesting then to just know the ending from the start.