Escaping Culture In 'A Man Who Was Almost A Man'
English 102
22 April 2013
Escaping Culture Escaping culture is a way to escape fears and reality. When running away from fears it only creates bigger fears. When trying to escape reality, it poses threats as becoming delusional to the real world. The characters in these works try to escape their cultures by running from their problems, family responsibilities, heritage, and habitat.
In A Man Who Was Almost a Man, by Richard Wright, the young boy accidentally kills a mule and tries to run from his troubles by jumping onto a midnight train into the moonlight. “Ahead the long rails were glinting in the moonlight, stretching away, away to somewhere, somewhere where he could be a man” (Wright 412). Wright discusses the young mans way of …show more content…
Hope for better weather tomorrow?” (Fugard 510).
There is no way possible that someone can get a kite to stay up in the air while it is raining, just like there is absolutely no way that he is going to be able to teach someone with no rhythm to dance right away. He has to do as Sam says and hope that tomorrow he can have more patience and teach her more things. In these four selections about; a boy running away from his problems and family, a daughter who does not want to take care of her dying mother anymore, an Indian tribe who will never spiritually leave their land and origins, and an abusive boyfriend who cannot get his girlfriend to dance properly, the main character tries to escape some type of problem that they are dealing with at the time. All of these characters have one superior thing in common; they all try to escape reality. Whether it is fear within reality, or just plain fear, they try to run away from it and let something else take over. Trying to escape culture is trying to escape fear. It is physically impossible because mentally that fear and duty that was done will always be there. Escaping culture is not a way to live, for it is only a way to escape from reality for a very short period of
22 April 2013
Escaping Culture Escaping culture is a way to escape fears and reality. When running away from fears it only creates bigger fears. When trying to escape reality, it poses threats as becoming delusional to the real world. The characters in these works try to escape their cultures by running from their problems, family responsibilities, heritage, and habitat.
In A Man Who Was Almost a Man, by Richard Wright, the young boy accidentally kills a mule and tries to run from his troubles by jumping onto a midnight train into the moonlight. “Ahead the long rails were glinting in the moonlight, stretching away, away to somewhere, somewhere where he could be a man” (Wright 412). Wright discusses the young mans way of …show more content…
Hope for better weather tomorrow?” (Fugard 510).
There is no way possible that someone can get a kite to stay up in the air while it is raining, just like there is absolutely no way that he is going to be able to teach someone with no rhythm to dance right away. He has to do as Sam says and hope that tomorrow he can have more patience and teach her more things. In these four selections about; a boy running away from his problems and family, a daughter who does not want to take care of her dying mother anymore, an Indian tribe who will never spiritually leave their land and origins, and an abusive boyfriend who cannot get his girlfriend to dance properly, the main character tries to escape some type of problem that they are dealing with at the time. All of these characters have one superior thing in common; they all try to escape reality. Whether it is fear within reality, or just plain fear, they try to run away from it and let something else take over. Trying to escape culture is trying to escape fear. It is physically impossible because mentally that fear and duty that was done will always be there. Escaping culture is not a way to live, for it is only a way to escape from reality for a very short period of