Anecdote of different worlds of three young men
This essay addresses issues that affect the lives of three young men who are in three different worlds and are affected by effects that change their destiny. Some events such as technology are beyond want they can control. Some of them like Pym are victims of adventures that they do not decide to take but somehow find them drifted into by a certain force. The three young men abandon what is the norm for the youth of their time and instead embarks on a journey of the unknown that shapes their lives. From the sea fairing, joining the army to moving to a new town, all the scenarios fail to adhere to what the society expected of them, but instead choose their own journey of life which although unknown, offers them a lot of intricacies. The three epoch of the 19th century to depicts the tale of a young man who is not ready to go by the norm and decides to embark on a venture that later shape his live.
Incredibly, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, is one of the best written by the author Poe. The novel was in print in 1838 and is possibly less frightening than the preponderance of Poe’s manuscript. Nonetheless, it is an inspiring excellent sea-faring volume. As is true of many narratives of the era, the manuscript is a storyline in first person account and almost in a memoir form. The story line is about Arthur Gordon Pym who is a young man and who through a sequence of strange proceedings, finds himself a stowaway on a fishing vessel. Conversely, that is just the commencement of his adventures, as he finds himself constantly propelled into the nearly all overwhelming of circumstances. Narratives every so often may read like a sequence of unbelievable fiction and may necessitate a complete postponement the normal. This can make its reading wonderful. It is a good reading for adults of all delight and senior young people who take pleasure in sea-faring narrative and escapade. Lastly, the foreword, by Richard Kopley, does an immense work of explanation of the book’s overtone, which adds very much to the reading incident.
The narrative is a fortitude assessment for both person who reads and characters. It may have been sequential, and comprehends like a compilation of occasions instead of a narrative. Nonetheless, it is a fascinating tale, amazing in its aspects and relaxed dreadfulness. Arthur Gordon Pym is portrayed as having been born under an ill-fated star. He survived in the most unimaginable conditions, from a wandering on an overturned wreck to the ice-covered waters of the Antarctic. Each page turned heaps revulsion in his trail making the reader to hunger for his work. Articulated with an increasing detached aloofness, Pym himself becomes distant from each episode, until he views the unreasonable with a laid-back inquisitiveness. The verbal communication is wonderfully exhaustive, and some feel that the narrative is the motivation for “Moby Dick,” a wonderfully and distressing storyline.
The book amongst some of Poe’s least available piece of works, the story of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket has resisted a unanimously acknowledged explanation. Poe scholar Scott Peeples observed that it is a scorn nonfictional voyaging sequence of events, exploration narrative, a ruse, mostly copied travelogue, and pious metaphor, amongst the most indefinable main manuscript of American writing. Novelist James M. Hutchison posits that the prose both skyrocket to new heights of imaginary inventiveness and plunges to fresh lows of ridiculousness and ludicrousness (Carlson 56)
One motive for the bewilderment comes from much instability inaccuracy throughout the story. For instance, Pym remarks that crashing a bottle while ensnared in the hold ensures he is rescued since the noise signals Augustus to his whereabouts while rummage around. Despite this, Pym comments that Augustus failed to reveal this until several years passes by, albeit Augustus is dead eight episodes afterward. However, much of the narrative is cautiously schemed. Biographer John Barth remarks, for instance, that the equidistant point of the novel take place when Pym arrive at the equator, the middle point of the earth
In the novel Poe with scholar Shawn Rosenheim who believes that, this idea within the writing represented a background to Poe’s enthusiasm about writing as an art. The pictures were likely crafted in The Kentuckies in New-York (1834) described through William Alexander Caruthers, resembling the description of the writings of a black slave. Contrasting earlier sea-voyage stories that Poe authored in his previous books for instance, in ‘The Bottle’, Pym is commencing this trip with reason. It has been recommended that the voyage be about ascertaining a nationwide American distinctiveness as well as determining a private uniqueness (Harry 98).
In the narrative, Poe construes the consequence of alcohol on human beings. The opening incident, for instance, demonstrates that inebriated persons can occasionally seem completely clear-headed and then, suddenly, the consequence of alcohol is depicted. Such a portrayal is a small form of a bigger converges in the novel on incongruous pandemonium and stability. Even nature seems twisted. Water, as a case in point, is very dissimilar as the story concludes, emerging as either multicolored or extraordinarily clear. The Sun, towards the conclusion sparkles with an unhealthy yellow shine releasing no earnest light before apparently smothering. More lately the book enthused evaluation of its ethnic portrayal by Toni Morrison, which themselves becomes the jumping-off position of Mat Johnson’s sardonic narrative Pym. In the writing, an African-American writing scholar becomes gripped with the desire of finding the residents of the islands depicted toward the conclusion of Poe’s work of fiction (Sova 56).
In Giraffes in my Hair, Carol Swain presents Bruce Paley in a way that is simple but catchy to a reader because she touches issues that modern day youths relate to in a unique way. Even though times have changed Carol manages to capture the youth of today and travel with them back to the 1960s and1970s in a way that they cannot resist (Paley and Carol 16)
As a young adult, Bruce Paley had attained the age of 18 in 1967. He was eager to find out what the world has to offer him as a teenager. His enthusiasm for adventure and pleasure impulsively leads him to rebellion and he drops out of college to hit the road and live on his own along with his girlfriend. He persuades his girlfriend to run away with him since her mother objects of them being intimate, his girlfriend backs down and he is forced to run alone. Bruce forsakes his comfortable life to live in a car; his rowdy action pushes him to engage in crimes. He gets involved with a youth movement that harasses civilians; he takes part in one of their heinous plot to attack the Democratic National Convention.
His expedition to adulthood leads to drug abuse. He shoots heroine and sniffs cocaine. He engages in irresponsible sex by visiting brothels. His behavior depicted the transition from peace and love 60s era to the negative and unimpressive 70s age. Bruce often gets himself on the ugly side of law and his addiction to drugs does not help at all, he becomes worse in the early 1970s. Paley’s life as a comic character displays a teenager that is lost in the counter social era. Bruce creates an insight prism of the many challenges that a young adult undergoes while growing up.
Bruce Paley’s life as a young adult in America gives a vivid picture of what most teenagers undergo. His experience as a young person surviving the jungle that is unknown to him is what most young people go through. Having to steal in order to feed is a sad situation but still he has to endure it and strive to make it in a generation where there is so much change from being a peaceful era to one that is punky and nihilistic in every aspect. Although the 70s decade appears to be a bit organized compared to the 60s, it has its own draw backs and teenagers have to adapt to every change so as to lie through the different ages and still remain responsible as expected of them by the governing laws.
The Giraffes in my Hair book shows exactly how the young man Bruce Paley survived the transition from the 60s to the 70s. Even though he falls off the wagon by engaging drug abuse and crime, he still finds his way to the right path. Bruce lives in an age where the police are ruthless and are ignorant of human rights; they torture teenagers regardless of their age and not consider them. The pathos experiences of Bruce in the book bring out the animosity that the youth had to endure but the ways in which he finds a solution to them and manages to live through the most hazardous of the situation, shows that nothing is impossible.
Bruce should get a pat on the back for surviving the ordeal of living in two well-trodden eras. His life as a young person is troubled and he struggles without relenting. Although his situation seems hopeless when he and his friends have to sleep on snow filled corridors there is an aspect of amusement in the fact that he still goes home after learning the hard way. Guess it is true that experience is always a good teacher.
What Bruce goes through as a young adult is not foreign to teenagers growing in this time and age. The C21 youth under goes stressful experiences as a young individual because of technology which changes daily. As the technology changes, the lives of many young people also changes because they have to adjust to fit in the society, just like those who lived in the sixties and had to transition to seventies.
Consider the most valuable war story of all time, Charley’s War is a comic war book based on the expeditions of a 16 year old, Charley Bourne. Mr. Bourne is thrilled to join an army that is about to set off for war to a point that he conceals his true age to be accepted to join the squad expected to volunteer in the battle of Somme. He abandons his job at a garage to embark on a quest he has no idea about considered he was only a teenager. He soon realizes the real world of war in the C20 when most his friends are killed. This leads him to being the villain due to anger and bitterness he felt for his loss.
Charley’s hopes of becoming a hero are far more depreciated by the great world war that saw him lose most of his loved ones. He becomes psychologically tormented but he is determined to avenge his compatriots (Hogan 8). Although he was not educated, he had qualities that enabled him survive in the war. As a teenager in war, Charley faces traumatizing experiences that only a brave person can withstand. He does not fear being in the war front and faces battles as they come. His teenage wisdom enables him endure all the struggles that arise and he eventually learns be strong even in the face of danger.
Charley’s war portrays Charley Bourne as a strong, intelligent and wise young man whose main goal is to end the war and restore peace. He becomes renowned for his diligence and prowess as an army person and is honored for it. Charley as a youth advocates for peace, harmony and civilization. He grows up as an individual with a strong personality that can influence others to join his quest of bringing tranquility in the human race. He does not let the fact that he is illiterate stand in his way of duty to humanity as far as the Somme battle was involved.
When the Somme battle is over and having registered a remarkable show of brevity, Charley who is now mature, wiser and stronger is promoted in his rank as an army officer and posted to Russia to assist the white Russians in their fight against the Bolsheviks. After World War 1 was over Charley although much older but weak due to age still contributed immensely to the eradication of World War 2 (Nolan 79).
The three narratives give an incredible description of three young men who decide to go against the wave of their time but instead plunge into the unknown to seek adventures. Their expeditions into the untamed world that is unfamiliar to them influences their lives in such a way that most young men of their time identified with and may be lived through the same experiences. In the end, their experience is a lesson to every young person that wishes to go against the mundane of their youthful years .The narrative warns youth that the outside world is not as adventurous as they visualize it. The tale shows that in the C19 and C20 the youth were enthusiastic and intrepid to go on any excursion they wanted to undertake for the purpose of proclivity and thrill. The young men in the narrative take on the world in their own way and the best way they could and ultimately their life changes in ways they least expected their adventure becomes a lesson for them to learn.
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