To be able to seize a day, mastering the feeling of love, nurturing your intelligence, and banishing perturbing memories are some required skills. Without forgetting the most important one, to learn the best way to live life, a skill that can only be taught with experience. A character who is learning this lesson is Wilhelm, a fotry-aged man who I am the most sorry for. Hi life can't be worse, his wife hates him, he doesn't live with his family, he is unemplyed, did not finish school, and his father is well-known and he is a nobody. In one day his whole life is demonstrated through phone calls and memories. the search for the key of a happy life is this the moral and the only opportunity the dead man at the end of the novel has given the character to seize the day. The only opportunity to make the day worth something, at least a tear. Saturation is the word for the amount of shame I feel for Wilhelm, at least he took the opportunity to live life.
Anyway there are so many combined thoughts that it can be summarized with this quote,"I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, i scorn, Idie, I hide, I want." (page 111) Usding this tool to represent the worries and troubles of so many people that on that same day are actually experiencing. I would like to emphasize the use of love, just for the reason that this is the strongest feeling humans can experience. Even though this novel talks mainly about one unique character, love is always present. It is there implicitly simbolizing the heart, which does not always love but the opposite as an effect of love. This can be a reason why love is present everywhere except in the novel, The Crying of Lot 49 where sex steals the place of true love. Working, for instance, is an effect of love for your family and for your confort, your social life and finally yourself. Actually these are the reasons to love money, created from labor. In a couple of words, love and money help you live life as good as it can be and it can be done in just one day.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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