tissue summary

• Fragile paper is what has the power to change things; paper's own fragility doesn't impact its power to change.
• Paper has the power to educate people and record lives.
• Fragile Paper has the ability to record major and minute details about human life.
• Paper does not last; a building made of paper would soon be destroyed by the wind.
• Paper has the power to encapsulate and how natural phenomena.
• Paper controls money and also has the ability to control human lives like a kite.
• Dharker claims an architect could choose to build with paper and never feel the need to build with brick again.
• The power of paper is never meant to last.
• Tissue is linked to skin.
• Tissue does not follow a narrative as such, rather it uses Tissue paper as a conceit (extended metaphor) for mankind's power.

  • Dharkher explores how even something as fragile as Tissue has the power to leave a lasting mark.

  She also contrasts the fragility of humans with the staying power of nature, demonstrating how both have power in their own ways.