Epiphany as Seen in Incident and Salvation
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For many people, ideas and thoughts change after experiencing
something unexpectedly, and it forces them to except the truth, no
matter how painful it might be. “At any time, the equilibrium of our
lives, the comfortable image of ourselves and the world around us, may
be disrupted suddenly by something new, forcing us into painful
reevaluation. These disruptions create pain, anxiety, and terror by
also wisdom and awareness.” This self-explanatory quote can also be
called an epiphany. Two literary works that support this quote are
“Incident” and “Salvation.” This quote has also proven true in my
life when an unexpected death in the family awakened me.
In the short poem “Incident” the main character experiences an
epiphany. The little eight-year-old boy riding around in what he
thought was a “perfect” town was suddenly disrupted by something new,
another little boy around his age responded to his friendly smile by
sticking his tongue out and calling him a “nigger.” This disruption
had created pain, anxiety, and terror for the little boy who states
that “of all the things that happened there, that’s all that I
remember” (165). He gained wisdom and awareness from this experience
that made him see the world and the people in it in a more realistic
way. Not everything out there is good and sweet, especially people.
World War I and World II are basically the same, right? If so, Araby, written around WWI by James Joyce, and The Flash, written around WWII by Italo Calvino, are also the same, no? Indeed, these short stories have many similarities. At the same time, both stories have many differences. Thus, it is difficult to compare both stories when considering all the details. If the subject of comparison is more specific, such as epiphany, then more emphasis and effort can be put into the comparison. In Araby, the protagonist falls in love with a girl, but love deceives him. In his moment of epiphany, “[g]azing up into the darkness [he] saw [himself] as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and [his] eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Joyce 1). In The Flash, the protagonist suddenly grasps a reality, but only for an instant: “[He] stopped, blinked: [He] understood nothing. Nothing, nothing about anything. [He] didn’t understand the reasons for things or for people, it was all senseless, absurd. And [he] started to laugh” (Calvino 1). The comparison between the epiphanies of both short stories reveals the relationship amongst the similarities and differences regarding theme, symbolism and setting.
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In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, she introduces the characters by stating that Mrs. Mallard has a heart disease, so Richards, Mr. Mallard's friend, and Josephine, Mrs. Mallard's sister must break the news to her very carefully. When she hears the news, she weeps “with wild abandonment” at first, and when she has stopped crying, she goes up to her room and locks herself in. While she has a feeling of deep sadness, the positive imagery in the open window in her room shows the beauty in life, greatly contrasting her current emotions towards her husband's death. After seeing this, she slowly has an epiphany and gets a new, sweeter feeling, which she reveals as freedom. She knew she would weep again at his funeral, but she could now live
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