Fear In Gabriel Fitzgerald's Japanese Quince And Gabriel Garcia

Fear is everywhere in our lives and people deal with fear in many ways. People

either let fear control them or they take action. Fears challenges people every day. Nadine

Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time” John Galsworthy’s “Japanese Quince ”and Gabriel Garcia

Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings ”show how people try to isolate themselves

when they are scared or don't feel safe. These stories Gordimer, Galsworthy, and Marquez show

that fear in humanity causes people to become isolated from society.

Gordimer demonstrates the fear in the society when all the neighbors start building

walls to protect and isolate themselves from society. Gordimer uses walls

to show the fear of the non-white people. Walls also

This story describes how people of different races are

separated. The wife talks about how even though they are separated with the other colored

people she is still scared and this has to do with racism because she is afraid of the non white

people because of stereotypes made by society. The parents try to build the walls to feel

safe and isolated from the other colored people, but instead their son dies because of the wall

they built. This story really reflects on the idea of segregation because of fear.

Galsworthy explains how people are unwilling to alter their dull life because of fear. The

story by Galsworthy talks about two men who live boring life's and one day they get a chance

to change their lifestyle but instead they go back home and restart their day like nothing

happened. The men always do the same thing everyday “Mr.Nilson noticed that he had clasped

his newspaper behind his back”(Galsworthy 42). The newspaper symbolizes his same lifestyle

because he gets the newspaper paper every day. The circular pathway that the men walk

symbolizes he was living an unchanging life style like a circle and they go around it

The people in the story have no idea what to do with the

old man, but a lot of people are scared and lock it up. People think the old man is not an angel

because he doesn't speak Latin and that makes the people scared because then what is this man

then. These people are really racist to the old man and they shouldn't be because “With the

money they saved they built a two-story mansion, Pelayo also gave up his job as a bailiff, and Elisenda bought some satin pumps”(Marquez 82). They got rich from the old man and their son

was cured and this shows that the old man was good luck to them. The people also mistreat him

by branding him, putting him in a chicken coop, and people also want to kill him, and this

showed how people did not think of him as a normal person but as a animal and that’s how they

treated him This story really showed the fear in people and unknown things in the society and

fear causes them to mistreat the old man.

Gordimer, Galsworthy, and Marquez show that when fear strikes humans, they try to

hide and go back to where they feel safe. Gordimer’s use of walls represents the fear in