Journey Of Life In August, Visitation, And Birds

Bruno Schultz short stories “August”, “Visitation”, and “Birds” from The Streets of Crocodiles, is a series of progression of chronological events beginning in summer and ending in the winter season. In the first story of “August” the narrator reminisces about his childhood as a boy and the home that he grew up in located at market square. As the storyline progresses in “August” we begin to see the dark, dull, and an old feeling of his hometown in the story. By the time fall arrives, the narrator is now experiencing the darkness he began to describe in “August” personally affecting him in his family life, by the narrator’s, father Jacob becoming ill and beginning his journey to insanity. Finally as winter approaches in “Birds” the storyline develops the same feeling of numb indifference as portrayed in the life of the narrator boy. The narrator’s father has officially reached the point of insanity and is stuck living his life in his childhood, ironically just as the narrator's childhood is coming to an end. The Bruno Schultz overall theme of all thirteen short stories is experimentation or taking the many paths of life to find the right ones way. In the series of Streets of
This is done throughout the book to not only gain the attention of the reader, but to also put an emphasis on what the narrator is exactly trying to relate to readers of his book. The overly vivid words help show all of the people that are escaping this world. Unfortunately in the first three stores the narrator is stuck in his head and is distracted by the dark and dull inside his family therefore not many “bright colors” are viewed in his life but are being described by the author. His fathers increasing illness and the background character of the narrator’s mother taking over the father’s business when he becomes ill is a distraction to the narrator and him taking his perfect journey in