Using your story and poetry reading strategies, this week you’ve read two short stories and a poem; and also, you’ve read a non-fiction text discussing what you might call the psychology of knowing other people: it discusses how much we think we know about other people, how little we believe other people know us, and how wrong we can be on both counts.
Your task: Pick one of the following questions, and discuss it with reference to at least two of this week’s readings.
1. When we get people completely wrong, have they deceived us – or have they allowed us to deceive ourselves?
2. Discuss how language can deceive as well as communicate.
3. Can silence be as deceptive as speech?
Discuss how language can deceive as well as communicate.
