breakdown of words and meaning

Toast

I believe that the breakdown of words and meaning lies in our inadequate system of language and our inability to express the understood in words. In “Toast”, Margaret Atwood says “what is flour? We’ll skip this part, it’s too complicated” and I believe that this is symbolic. She is pointing out that we know what flour is and that is we were to dissect it into its very details it would mean nothing to us. The words we would be left with is something or thing which what does that mean? What is a thing exactly; a thing has no meaning and that is where a breakdown occurs. Also our inability to express what we understand also brings with it a breakdown of words and meaning. A writer once said that “love is when there are a million things you want to say to someone, but when they look you in the eyes and hold you in their arms nothing in life matters other than being with that person at that moment." I believe this to be true because when you start to try and express why you love someone and how they make you feel, the people you are talking to never quite seem to understand completely even though they often know the feeling themselves. Love is something that you can not fully express to other people but rather it is a feeling that must be felt rather than spoken. The breakdown of words and meaning lies in our inability to express feelings we understand and our inadequate system of language.

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