#9

Early in the semester we were told that “names convey power over things.” I didn’t fully understand this until in Wilderness as Sacred Place we watched a movie in which a man was lost in a land where he knew no one and no one spoke his language. In this time the man began to go crazy because he was in chaos. Eventually however, he broke down and began to weep and then began to give names to the things he recognized from back in his homeland of France. Afterwards the man was relieved at the fact that he could recognize things and he could feel power over anything, even if the only power he had was that of knowledge.