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This 3 page paper discusses the statement “Any reality is ultimately just an individual perception rather than a reality that can be agreed to by everyone” with regard to the story The Problem of Old Harjo. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Problem of Old Harjo. Discussion Before any reasonable comparison can be made, the statement itself must be considered carefully. Is it true that reality is an individual perception in all
cases? Such a sweeping generalization requires justification, and the author offers none. Furthermore, a moments reflection will show that there are those realities upon which everyone can agree; they may
be rare, but they do exist. The most prominent historical example is that of the Holocaust, since no reasonable, thinking person would fail to agree that murdering six million
Jews is wrong. The Holocaust is perhaps the nadir of human history, and everyone who aspires to the name of human must agree that it is an abhorrent evil. There
is no such thing as "individual perception" involved here. History presents us with the facts of the Nazis and their death camps, and we can either accept that they were
useful or reject them utterly as the most egregious example of human bestiality that has ever existed. Surely, the latter is the opinion held by all right-thinking people, which means
that the statement with regard to perception is flawed. However, it still can be used, with caution, to examine the reasoning in the story of Old Harjo because clearly there
are at least two different realities dealt with in the tale, and both are persuasive. However, we might first want to consider the idea of perception with regard to the
title, The Problem of Old Harjo. The title is both provocative and pejorative; the author is forcing readers to see Harjo in a certain way before they even begin the
story. He either is a problem, or he has a problem; either way, the title implies that Harjo is causing some sort of difficulty. Oskinson could have titled his story
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