After Caravaggios Sacrifice of Isaac
After Caravaggios Sacrifice of Isaac
”After Caravaggios Sacrifice of Isaac” is a short-story written by Rachel Cusk, and published in 2003. Love is the world’s most wonderful phenomenon, it is a force more formidable than any other, and love is strong enough to transform you in a moment. This the story of a man, afflicted by love. And like all good things – The more you care about them the more you have to sacrifice for them. The narrator of the story becomes a victim of this phenomenon, when he is given an ultimatum to choose between those he loves.
The story is told by a first person narrator, which means that we know what the character is thinking and receive their output on what occurs. Because of this, we get to know the character better in some aspects. We achieve a more distinct understanding of why he acts the way he does, by knowing the thoughts he has made around it. On line 27 there is an example of him explaining how his son changed the man was: “What I mean is that loving Ian made me expect more from life. It made me think there were better things out there”.
In this short-story the main character Alan has gone through enormous change. He developed from having little confidence in himself to adjust everything which he was not satisfied about. To elaborate, he goes through 3 phases in his flashback. In the first phase he had an ordinary life, married and with a job which he could not stand. He did not have any self-esteem, and was later astounded that he was able to live with it. This comes to show on l. 52 “I looked back at the life I’d lived and thought, how could you have done this and that, how could you have been so ordinary?” The second phase begins when he becomes a father. This is the point where he got the first ray of sunshine in his life, and he found faith in that ray. Ian was the thing which he did different. All of his possessions and relations seemed trivial when put next to Ian. His son was the only thing he had ever completely
”After Caravaggios Sacrifice of Isaac” is a short-story written by Rachel Cusk, and published in 2003. Love is the world’s most wonderful phenomenon, it is a force more formidable than any other, and love is strong enough to transform you in a moment. This the story of a man, afflicted by love. And like all good things – The more you care about them the more you have to sacrifice for them. The narrator of the story becomes a victim of this phenomenon, when he is given an ultimatum to choose between those he loves.
The story is told by a first person narrator, which means that we know what the character is thinking and receive their output on what occurs. Because of this, we get to know the character better in some aspects. We achieve a more distinct understanding of why he acts the way he does, by knowing the thoughts he has made around it. On line 27 there is an example of him explaining how his son changed the man was: “What I mean is that loving Ian made me expect more from life. It made me think there were better things out there”.
In this short-story the main character Alan has gone through enormous change. He developed from having little confidence in himself to adjust everything which he was not satisfied about. To elaborate, he goes through 3 phases in his flashback. In the first phase he had an ordinary life, married and with a job which he could not stand. He did not have any self-esteem, and was later astounded that he was able to live with it. This comes to show on l. 52 “I looked back at the life I’d lived and thought, how could you have done this and that, how could you have been so ordinary?” The second phase begins when he becomes a father. This is the point where he got the first ray of sunshine in his life, and he found faith in that ray. Ian was the thing which he did different. All of his possessions and relations seemed trivial when put next to Ian. His son was the only thing he had ever completely