Corrine Essay

According to Leah Silverman, the author of ’Lenses,’ the super-electronic future that no one expected and everyone dreaded is nearer then we thought. Everything in the new world is machine operated, hence it being ultra fake. Even some of the most complex and impossible tasks of today are proven to be only minor obstacles. One of the most common surgeries in the future is to replace the patient’s eye with a controllable glass camera. To surgeon, Corrine, replacing her friends beautiful brown eyes with empty, soul devouring cameras is a task she does not willingly want to do but must make a decision. Corrine says to herself, “But her new eyes will not be brown, and they will not shine with her laughter.”
In the real world, people get a certain percentage of human communication through physical and emotional gestures. Eyes tell us where a person has been and their story. Each twinkle in each person’s eye shows a different, yet extravagant story. It represents our deepest desires and feelings. But in the money influenced world, everyone strives for success, precision and efficiency. In her attempt to “perfect” Grushas eye sight and occupation standards, Corrine finds herself face to face with the choice of going through with the operation or backing down.
In order to make a final decision, Corrine had to realize the facts. The faults of the operation were that Grusha would no longer have eyes that”danced with life when she laughed” or show her serious side