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Many times I have sat and wondered why the literature of the past is something that I am so drawn to and so compelled to study that I am hardly phased anymore when people ask me what I am going to do with my English/ Rhetoric major. The first three times that I read Berger’s essay, however, I began to question my choice of major, too. I was alarmed by how much effort was required to understand Berger’s main points. I struggled with Berger, I think, because he has many ideas and sometimes the connections and the relevance of these ideas is unclear. He starts out by talking about the relationship between language and seeing. This seems simple enough, but quickly I was irritated by one of his seemingly irrelevant analogies. Berger reduces love to sex by saying, “When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate” (106). After this initial upset, the essay continued to confuse me as it explored the topics of reproduction of art, photography, and how art influences history. I am happy to say that I have a greater understanding of how Berger sees art, although I believe that his final argument in “Ways of Seeing” contradicts this, as demon