More Thoughts of Roland

Roland Barthes's article, "Death of the Author" presents an intriguing and philosophical theory that once an author writes his/her ideas onto paper then the author dies and writing begins. This is my theory from Wednesday's discussion: writing is such an abstract idea in itself that once an author writes his/her ideas, their identities become lost because of the numerous ways their writing can be interepted. For example, lets back to the example given in class, when we see a tree we know that it's a tree. But when we see the word tree so many things come into mind, whether the tree is a apple tree, orange tree, oak tree, the design, the texture, the color, and etc. There will be no way that the reader will ever know what the author intend or implied in his/her writing. "The voice loses its origin, the author enters into his own death, writing begins."