Chandler - Fish

Fisher and Chandler are both trying to accomplish the same goal and that is to make you aware of how you look at things. Not only in literature but in your regular daily activities.

In Fish's article he clearly shows you how if you go into a certain subject with an idea of what it is, you will without a shadow of a doubt believe it to be what you were orginally looking for. Just in the case when the names were on the board and immeditaly the students believed it to be a poem. Same thing when you look at certain genres of film or literature. If you go into a certain movie knowing that it's a sci-fi, you will come out of it, believing it was a science fiction film. But if the movie has guns, treasure, outlaws and a duel you automatically think it's a western. But what about City Slickers, all those ingredients are in it but it's a comedy. That's why Fish is trying to explain that society and its surroundings dictate what genre something is. "In other words, acts of recognition, rather than being triggered by formal characteristics, are their source. It is not that the presence of poetic qualities compels a certain kind of attention but that the paying of a certain kind of attention results in the emergence of poetic qualities." That is why the students saw a poem on the board when they walked in. They were looking for the qualities of a poem and they found them.

Just like raising your hand in a classroom, you are implying that you would like to speak, same goes for standing on the side of the street and raising your hand or thumb. You are implying that you like to be driven somewhere, if you stood on the side of the street and raised your middle finger, I doubt you would find a ride anytime soon, all because of what we are looking for and the surroundings that we are in. "That text might be a poem, as it was in the case of those who first "saw" "Jacobs-Rosenbaum Levin Hayes Thorne Ohman (?)," or a hand, as it is every day in a thousand classrooms; but whatever it is, the shape and meaning it appears immediately to have will be the "ongoing accomplishment" of those who agree to produce it." Because we continue to use the raised hand, people will continue to respond to it.