The Silent Cry is a narrative of a translator called Mitsusaboro (Mitsu) and his relations with the other main characters, namely his wife Natsumi and his brother Takashi. In the novel Mitsu is often portrayed as a man who loves his own space and leads his own silent life. This might be the reason the author has actually titled the book “The Silent cry” referring to Mitsu’s cry (narrative). His brother on the other hand is portrayed as an outspoken person who becomes a leader and was a part of the acting group that went to the United States of America with his troupe. Natsumi on the other hand had never met Takashi and she during the course of the book gets attracted to him. To describe the attitude of both Mitsu and Natsumi as a stagnant feeling towards Takashi is very difficult as their attitudes towards him keep on changing during the whole course of the book. The rivalry between the two siblings is demonstrated very early in the book when their mother on her death bed told Mitsu and Takashi’s sister that “Mitsu will be ugly and Takashi will be handsome. People will like Takashi and he will lead a successful life”. These were the last words that their mother said this shows that Mitsu was probably always ignored in the household where as Takashi was the one who was more loved. This would have probably been the start point of Mitsu and Takashi’s rivalry. This rivalry is even demonstrated when Mitsu tells Takashi’s “bodyguard” Hoshio that how Takashi was a coward and “the idea of dying with a lot of physical pain scares him twice as much as most people” (23) and how he has been a prey to “some fear or the other” (24). This was almost the first impression we get about Takashi directly from Mitsu and the fact that he is trying to put his brother down actually suggests that he is trying to show that he is superior and those words that his mother had said on her deathbed actually led
Fear is a powerful emotion. Wikipedia.com describes fear as “an emotion induced by threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately change behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events.”Most people tend to avoid fearful situations, not realizing that something positive may come out of the event or experience. Victor Villaseñor focuses on the topic of fear in his novel titled Burro Genius. Villaseñor demonstrates to readers how growing up he was extremely fearful of any situation. Victor also tells his readers how he turned his fear into motivation into motivation to keep going and reach his ultimate goal of becoming a published author.
Fear resides within all of our souls and our minds in different forms wether it be mind, body, or spirit. Fear can be brought upon by actions, words or ever our mere imagination. Of course as one being younger your imagination can bring along fear that is non existent but, to one it may seem so vivid and tangible. In this Novel by William Golding we come to grasps with many different forms of fear being from the beast, the loss of humanity, and the fear of realization.
In the year 1625, Francis Bacon, a famous essayist and poet wrote about the influences of fear on everyday life. He stated, “Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other” (Essays Dedication of Death). Clearly, external surroundings affect perceptions of fear as well as human nature in general. Although C.S. Lewis published the novel, Out of the Silent Planet, over three centuries after Bacon wrote his theory on fear, Lewis similarly portrayed external surrounding to manipulate perceptions of fear. From the first chapter of the novel, Lewis revealed fear to be a weakness that leads to ignorance. It was this ignorance that apparently fueled the cycle of corruption and immorality on “The Silent Planet.” Using the character Ransom to reveal the effect of memory and morality on fear, C.S. Lewis demonstrates that fear is a quality of the “bent” race (humans), and only by eliminating fear in our lives can the human race become hnau.
people to repress and fear their emotions. Turner finds primal emotions to be necessary to our
The novel “All Quiet on the Western Front’ is about Paul Baumer, who joins World War I. He experiences things that are unimaginable to the common man. The psychological effect Paul experiences throughout his time in the war is the feeling of melancholy. Situations such as Paul’s leave, his first kill, and his death all back up the idea of depression.
As “The Blue Hotel,” “The Displaced Person,” “Bernice Bobs her Hair,” and In Dubious Battle demonstrate, the outsiders in each story, though instilling an initial fear in the eyes of society, experience a sudden and considerable downfall in the end. Each of these defeats, some more extreme than others, result from a clash of society’s fixed guidelines with an outsider’s challenge of these rules. Whether this rebellion against society constitutes a conscious or unconscious effort, and whether the punishment results in justifiable or unjustifiable consequences, one pattern emerges. The outsider instills fear in the mind of the community, and as a defense mechanism, society takes it upon itself to conquer the stranger, leading to his or her ultimate downfall.
In Alan Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country two characters, Absalom's girl and Gertrude, show the how society in Johannesburg is as a whole. Absalom's girl symbolizes how girls her age are mothers and have even become divorced several times before. On the other hand Gertrude, Kumalo's sister, illustrates the qualities of a young woman who becomes corrupt from Johannesburg's filthy system of stealing, lying, and prostitution. Both of them show the ways of Johannesburg as a whole.
Fear motivates many people to act upon matters, right or wrong. This emotion has been important in many events in both works of literature, and in the real world. It has forced military geniuses into retreat, and influenced them to plan another method of attack. Fear can be both a positive and a negative acting force in one’s life, a quality that can motivate one to success as well as to downfall.
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, an allegory by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, brings to attention the idea of the psychological process of dehumanizing. Throughout the years, certain races, homeless individuals, autistic individuals, women, homosexuals, and certain religions such as Jews and Muslims have all been examples of dehumanizing. The old man in Marquez’s story also faces this psychological process of dehumanizing. “Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. This can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide”(Maiese). Marquez emphasizes the point that just because someone
It is clear that May is the conscious influence that causes the instinctual representative of Marcher’s repression to develop more profusely. Hence, ‘the whole question [of the beast] was a new luxury to him-that is, from the moment she was in possession.’ (743) Marcher does not know what is being repressed or what the ‘id’ instinctual drive is because the repression itself is something that always remains deep within the unconscious. The mystery surrounding what the instinctual representative remains as allusive as the text itself.
The theme of “Self-Reliance” was developed in the novel Warriors Don’t Cry. Melba was an African-American girl that was part of the Little Rock Nine. She integrated into Central High school for better opportunities. However, she was mistreated and somewhat bullied in the school because of her race. She needed to rely on an army division called the 101st. Mainly; she relied on a soldier named Danny from the division. Danny followed her around in order to protect her from physical violence. After some time, Melba became very reliant on Danny. This can be seen when she writes, “Thank you Danny”, after every school day when Danny was there. She relied on Danny to save her eyes when another student with a stinging substance sprayed her. After some time, Danny left the school and Melba had to rely on herself for protection. She uses the trick her Grandma taught her of confusing the bully. The trick was to not,” …respond the way they expect you to.” After some time Melba learns to take...
In Night, he informs his reader of many examples on how a myriad of good people turn into brutes. They see horrific actions, therefore, they cannot help by becoming a brute. They experience their innocent family members being burned alive, innocent people dieing from starvation due to a minuscule proportion of food, and innocent people going to take a shower and not coming out because truly, it is a gas chamber and all f...
...a conclusion, the expression “Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever” shows that he threatened his role in a society as a friend, and as a husband while trying to create a new world for himself. He feels lonely and isolated. The narrator leaves us with the enigma to try to understand the story essentially, and in an intense meaning. It could be that the narrator is trying to demonstrate modernity by trying to describe the extraordinary behaviors of humankind and Wakefield’s desire to live the world individually. This is a story that tells us that even if we don’t like the way we live or the way how people identify us, inside we will always be the same person.
... his continuation. Consequently, senses are shaped and forced on the public by members of it. It is liberty of selection that helps individual's achievement of foretelling sense practicable. This not-conditioned liberty depicts the individual chance to provide sense to the public through his selections and events. Simultaneously, it also stressed that the individual take the accountability for his selection and achievement, since it is the person who depicts senses to the public. Traveling in the maze of the public, the main character puts a lot of effort to discover her means to genuine existence, though, her hard works are founded to be useless, that is continued to her being broken by misery and her come back to irrationality of existence. Tomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 provides a methodical demonstration of the dilemma of the individual in the world today.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of “Avery Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a well-known Colombian author “that has been considered one of the best writers of the 20th century”(Macondo). He published his first collection of short stories in 1955, which included the fictional short story written for children, called the “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” In his work, he expresses that it is possible that he may have experienced similar cruelty within his life and the life of others. ‘We've entered a cultural realm in our own collective history where it has become necessary to question what's real.”(Sellman) It is Marquez's purpose to make individuals aware of the harm that is inflicted on others. He demonstrates how awful people can act around those who are different from what society considers as normal.