TOAST!

It seems that the breakdown of words and meaning lie completely with the inadequate understanding of the language. Despite the two options that you gave the class, sir, I believe that it is due to our lack of knowledge on our own part. Upon reading this I can across the line, "What is electricity?" The complex word was more than likely easy to describe back when it was first discovered. Most of the words used to label things were random names, a perfect example being Adam and his naming of the animals. However, the fall, the flood, and the Tower of Babel quickly confused our way of understanding how words came to find their meaning. In the end of this piece, where Snowman seems to just give up and say, "Toast is me. I am toast" reveals the postmodern way of thinking. As Cory states continually: "It's all relative." Margret Atwood seems to give up on understanding the complex language that we used which originated form the original language, Latin. In short, it is neither an inadequate system of language or an inadequate understanding of reality that answer the breakdown of words and meaning... but it is the misunderstanding of the language due to the Fall of Adam and the Tower of Babel which confused our minds as to where the true meanings of words lie.