The Piece of Paper and 17.09.10

5 ways that the piece of paper could have significance :

1. It could be suicide note, left behind by someone who has now disappeared, and the person who found the paper has to race against time to find this person and stop them.
2. It could be a love letter written to the person that found the paper; they both had a secret love for each other but never admitted it but now she has moved away and he has to find a way to tell her how he feels.
3. A doctors letter, like results - A wife has just opened her seriously ill husbands doctors note, telling him that his illness is terminal and now she is determined not to ruin his final months of life and to enjoy the time they have left together.
4. Evidence - there is a piece of hair accidentally wrapped up inside the screwed up piece of paper that is the only piece of DNA the police can find to trace a serial killer.
5. It could be a password, but the finder doesn't know what the password is for but still believes it to be important and goes on like a mission to find what the password is for.   

I found the part of the lesson where we learned about suspension of disbelief quite interesting, because it made me think that people are willing to suspend their disbelief whatever book they are reading, even if it is fiction. There's always a part of me when I read something like Harry Potter, or just any fiction book, that makes me think 'Oh wow that could actually happen' but then you have to sort of tell yourself it couldn't and then you're really gutted e.g. like when I found out that the translator's note on Memoirs of A Geisha isn't real. The thing is, is that even when you know it's not real you're still willing to tell yourself it is. It also made me think that people are willing to use suspension of disbelief on other things, as well as book, like newspaper articles, or even t.v. Certain 'reality' t.v programmes like 'The Hills' or 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' are quite clearly not complete reality, like parts have got to be staged, but I am willing to put that to the back of my mind and be completely naive and think that these people's lives are really as glamorous as they are portrayed to be. It's the same with films, everyone's heard crazy stories about 'Twi-hards' biting people or something, and its like people lose their grip on what is real because of what they would rather believe to be true. 

Gossip, another time when you are willing to suspend your disbelief - it could be something really stupid like someone has 12 toes, and you'll believe it because of the way someone is saying it, just like the way the translator's not was written in Memoirs of a Geisha.