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 * (a) “Norton’s sanity hinged on not being convinced, or that he thought it did” (117). **

Write a detailed response to the idea presented. Do you agree or disagree? Why? To support your opinion, provide the following:


 * An example of this idea from a character or scene in //The Mist//
 * An example from either your own experience, or what you’ve observed in history, society, etc.

 (b) “Mr. McVey went on cooking chicken, apparently not minding that only a few people were eating it, happy in the act of cooking. As I think I have said, there are all ways of handling a thing like this. You wouldn’t think it would be so, but it is. The mind is a monkey” (142).

(c) “I realized with fresh horror that new doors of perception were opening up inside. New? Not so. Old doors of perception. The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe. Children see everything their eyes happen upon, hear everything in their ears’ range. But if life is the rise of consciousness…then it is also the reduction of input...Terror is the widening of perspective and perception” (165-166).