In and the clay are we created, explain what the narrator says about television and intimacy

"And of Clay We Are Created" is a story by Chilean author Isabel Allende. It tells the story of a girl who after a mudslide gets trapped in the mud. A journalist (Carle) travels to cover the accident, but as time goes by, he realizes that rescuing her is harder than he expected. He becomes emotionally invested in the story of the girl, forgetting his job, the camera and everything else. The girl eventually dies as no one can find a way to rescue her. The story is narrated by the journalist's partner, who is watching everything on TV.

The television in this story is a paradox in regards to intimacy. On the one hand, the line  that unites the narrator and the journalist is simply the transmission on TV, and all the details of Carle's internal changes are brought to her through the television. The screen is in this case a medium that enhaces intimacy.

On the other hand, it is also implied that Carle was always detached from the things he reported. This was because he saw it through the lenses of the cameras. As he gets more involved in the plight of the girl, he starts to forget about the cameras around him. In his case, the television was a barrier that prevented intimacy between him and his work. When that is forgotten, he can really face not only the girl, but the issues of his past that he had long avoided.

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.