Notre Dame Rebirth

Every human is a product of their mother and father’s cells coming together to form a single entity that then matures and, after nine months, is born. A new person with thoughts and feelings is created. But what if this is only the first birth? What if man can experience multiple “births” throughout his lifetime, becoming a new being with different thoughts and emotions? Gabriel Garcia Marquez offer this quotes from Love in the Time of Cholera; “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” Humans, throughout the course of their lives are pushed off of their destined path
But when the weight of expectation becomes too much, the call to break free becomes obvious. This rebirth, much like a caterpillar emerging from it’s chrysalis to reveal a beautiful butterfly, occurs when mans sheds the false pretenses he lives under and wipes away the self-fulfilling prophecies to determine who he really is. In the novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, many characters experience a rebirth in their life due to the fact that the general Parisian population of the 1400’s have many prejudices embedded into their
Parker goes through a similar metamorphosis. O.E. is a crass, pleasure seeking, ex-military man who never thought that he would tied down to a single woman, especially not a woman like Sarah. With Sarah, he is constantly told that he leads a sinful life and that and despised his tattoos. “Sarah Ruth who, if she had had better sense, could have enjoyed a tattoo on his back, would not even look at the ones he had elsewhere. When he attempted to point out especial details of them, she would shut her eyes tight and turn her back as well. Except in total darkness, she preferred Parker dressed and with his sleeves rolled down.” (O’Connor 2). Parker lived up to the expectation that Sarah was setting for him. He was a still a rude, atheist, pleasure-seeking jerk. This was until Parker, tired of being pushed away from being pushed away by Sarah, decided to use his main mean of expression that was once called idolatry to express his love of for her. Parker goes through a rebirth in this moment as he sheds the prejudices he was under in order to reveal his true self as Sarah’s loving husband. “Parker did not allow himself to think on the way to the city. He only knew that there had been a great change in his life, a leap forward into a worse unknown, and that there was nothing he could do about it. It was for all intents accomplished.... The thought of her brought him slowly to his feet. She would know what he