Hole By Andrew Porter Essay

Between the two texts: Hole by Andrew Porter, and The Places Below by Loren C. Eiseley there are a myriad of significant connections (symbolically and metaphorically) that can be made from these two stories. Starting with Hole, Tal Walker is one of the main characters in this story along with the narrator, who died when he was 10 years old. The manhole cover, that his Dad had pried open in the past; is a place that they had dumped their grass clippings into. Now as the story continues the Narrator refers back to how along ago it was and says, “In retelling, the story always changes sometimes it’s the heat of the driveway on Tal’s bare feet that causes him to let the mowing bag slip into the hole. Other times it’s anxiousness ----he is already thinking how the icy water is going to feel on his skin as he cannonballs off the Bradshaws’ diving board. But even now, twelve years later I am not sure about these things,”

The narrator in The Places Below states: “If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward the unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness. It is a simple prescription but you will not follow it. You will immediately turn to the darkness. You will be drawn to it by cords of fear and longing,” (547). In this sentence the other unveils a generalizing truth about us as people, as well as our human instinct; in which we as people are significantly drawn to conflict, chaos, or even violence. Ultimately this can be stated as a human nature, with a relative and defining impact on the world we live in, as well as the world that the characters from both texts are shown