Being There By Jerzy Kosinski Analysis

The day the sky smelled like wet water and the sun was a bright silk-like an egg yolk, will be the day I never forget. It’s the day my family and I first got our television for our home. I remember always watching Barney and Friends, as well as Teletubbies and always trying to be as happy as they are. I began to rely on television for information and entertainment in the world. In the book Being There by Jerzy Kosinski, there is a gardener named Chance who always lived in “The Old Mans” house and never went outside the garden fence. The only education he got was through the television he had and from the garden that he blossomed; Leading us than to his journey into the outside world after the old man dies. With all these screens in the world

For example, in the book, we see how Chance accidentally gets hit by a limousine of a lady called Eve who then takes him home to go see her husbands doctor (Kosinski 31). As the doctor prepares to inject Chance he, “Visualized all the TV incidents in which he had seen injections being given. . . He expected [it] . . . to be painful, but he did not know how to show that he was afraid” (Kosinski 33). Illustrating then that Chance has a reluctant attachment to perceiving how to act and react in situations according to television representation. Thus, showing how we can be manipulated into reacting with certain feelings for situations because we haven’t lived them yet; Even if the reaction can be the opposite for different situations and people. Another example is when Chance appears in the evening show after being quoted in the presidential speech. As Chance was walking to the show, “[he imitated] what he had so often seen on TV, Chance moved toward the vacant seat at the table. . . [and] sat down,” observing his surroundings to know how to act in this specific setting (Jerzy Kosinski 65). Conveying to us then how television shows can also have a positive effect on our view of the world because they can potentially help us in situations we might not have the potential

For example the television show, Full house, shows that when we get into a fight everything resolves once we say sorry in 30 minutes, even if that isn’t the case for everyone because not everyone can forgive even after saying sorry. Thus, giving us unrealistic views of how solving problems really are in the real world and giving us unrealistically approaches to events in a way that wont make us feel as