Organizing Principles

One organizing principle is context: we interpret and perceive things based off of the situation they're in. An example in the packet of context is when a world-reknowned violinist played in a metro unannounced, barely anyone noticed or recognized him. If he had announced his planned concert in a large concert hall though, the context would change, and people would then perceive him as a famous, talented musician, whereas the people in the metro perceived him as a nobody violinist. My own example of context often takes place in my HL English class when we are analyzing excerpts from novels. We received a passage recently from a novel that none of us had read, and we had to write a commentary on it. When I first read this excerpt, I perceived it quite differently than after when I learned it was about a soldier with shellshock. My interpretation of the passage completely changed once I learned of the context of the story.