Kluger Reading

When doing a close reading on Klugers ideas about memory and perception she uses an example of a kaleidoscope and an optical illusion involving a duck and a rabbit. She references these objects in order to prove that ones memory is unable to to remember and have two different perspectives at once. She begins speaking about the way she sees her father when she thinks about him. She goes into detail and explains what he is doing and how he is doing it. She has two distinct ideas of her father. One is when he is greeting and being kind the other is when he is being tortured and put to his death. These memories are cemented into her brain but will never appear simultaneously. This is why she references the optical illusion. within the optical illusion you either see a duck or a rabbit. It is impossible to see the two images at the same time. This refers back to her memory of her father because she will be unable to see both situations happening at the same time. She refers to the kaleidoscope because she states that memories will be changing patterns such as the mirrors and glass within a kaleidoscope.