Arthur's Life Growing Up In Delano Island
After Handel describes Arthur’s life growing up in Delano Island, we go back to an interaction between Arthur, journalists, and other people:
“‘[Delano Island] must’ve been so beautiful’ is the inevitable reply.
‘It was,’ he tells them, ‘it is,’ and then finds a way to change the subject because it’s difficult to explain this next part. Yes, it was beautiful. It was the most beautiful place I have ever seen. It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape” (74).
I absolutely love the contrast in the diction, gorgeous and claustrophobic. Two words that I have never seen paired together, but it is written so beautifully that claustrophobic does not sound like something negative. Growing up, he felt claustrophobic …show more content…
My sister attends college this year and I believe she would agree with this statement. She loves high school, her home, her family, her school friends, her routine life in Cincinnati, but she wants to escape from the routine and familiarness. This does not only apply to college. Sometimes people get tired of staying in one house, they may love it, but it is time for something new, a different perspective.
Moreover, after seeing a deer cross the road while walking with August, Kirsten remarks: “The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone” (148). This is not entirely connected with Arthur’s statement about Delano Island; however, it displays what beauty is to Kirsten. This line was also compelling to me. Short, but powerful. She thinks the world is beautiful with a lack of people, when you would think the world is lonely, destructive, and eerie.
Her thoughts make me ponder. Did the apocalypse make the world more simple or more complex? I do not have the answer to this question. Then I think, which is better, a simple or a complex life? I feel like the easy response to say is a simple life, but that is not how most people live, is that by choice, or just how life
“‘[Delano Island] must’ve been so beautiful’ is the inevitable reply.
‘It was,’ he tells them, ‘it is,’ and then finds a way to change the subject because it’s difficult to explain this next part. Yes, it was beautiful. It was the most beautiful place I have ever seen. It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape” (74).
I absolutely love the contrast in the diction, gorgeous and claustrophobic. Two words that I have never seen paired together, but it is written so beautifully that claustrophobic does not sound like something negative. Growing up, he felt claustrophobic …show more content…
My sister attends college this year and I believe she would agree with this statement. She loves high school, her home, her family, her school friends, her routine life in Cincinnati, but she wants to escape from the routine and familiarness. This does not only apply to college. Sometimes people get tired of staying in one house, they may love it, but it is time for something new, a different perspective.
Moreover, after seeing a deer cross the road while walking with August, Kirsten remarks: “The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone” (148). This is not entirely connected with Arthur’s statement about Delano Island; however, it displays what beauty is to Kirsten. This line was also compelling to me. Short, but powerful. She thinks the world is beautiful with a lack of people, when you would think the world is lonely, destructive, and eerie.
Her thoughts make me ponder. Did the apocalypse make the world more simple or more complex? I do not have the answer to this question. Then I think, which is better, a simple or a complex life? I feel like the easy response to say is a simple life, but that is not how most people live, is that by choice, or just how life