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Essay / The Door - 611
The Door step 1 preparationsIn the short story "The Door" by author EB White, he recounts one of his own personal experiments. This was done in a controlled environment, the goal of this task was to create an alternate reality. An alternative reality involves simulating a substitution of what can be considered reality itself. To achieve this alternative reality, this experiment must require an enclosure, in other words a rectangular prism whose walls will be high enough to prevent the rats from escaping. Not to mention that two other important materials are needed to carry out the experiment, including a rat and food for it. Next, the food will be placed behind one of the enclosure's three adjoining chambers. All three doors will be closed but unlocked, each with its own markings including a circle, square and triangle. Then the rat will be placed inside the enclosure, signifying that the experiment has begun. This experiment will be repeated several times until an alternate reality is created. To implement this alternative reality, it will take three steps. Initially, the rat will be placed in an open area of the enclosure. While the rat is in this enclosure, all doors will be open. Then, when the rat is hungry, the food will be placed behind the door with the circle. Shortly after, the rat will attempt to find this food and to do so it will use the process of elimination. Until the rat finally found the food it was looking for, which is food. This part of the step will be repeated until the rat understands that the circle equals food. Thus giving him a specific memory that will later help create this alternate reality. Shortly after, stage 2 will begin. Where the rat's motor memory will be eliminated so that the rat must rely entirely on its visual image of the circle. The only difference in this step is that the symbols will be changed after each run. Unlike step 1 where the circle was placed in the center of the other two doors. Then the rat is placed in the enclosure again and the rat finds itself using trail and error. Until the rat begins to realize that this process does not work because the symbol continues to be moved..