At the beginning of T7te Mi11d's Eye, Oliver Sacks poses this question: "To what extent are we the authors, the creators, of our own experience?" How might Nafisi answer Sacks and how might ber answer...

At the beginning of T7te Mi11d's Eye, Oliver Sacks poses this question: "To what extent are we the authors, the creators, of our own experience?" How might Nafisi answer Sacks and how might ber answer complicate Sacks's approach to the question? What role does she believe society plays in limiting our perceptions, and to what extent does Sacks, a neuroscientist, overfuok the social dimension by focusing on individuals? Do the blind subjects of Sacks's essay have anything in common with Nafisi's students? Does the imagination liberate Naf:isi's "girls" in much the same way as blindness f r ees Sacks's subjects? What do Naf:isi's students gain from the collective reading of a work of fiction? In order for us to become the authors of our own experience, what kinds of support f rom society do we need?