Yellow Essay
“Yellow”
A novel by Peter Carty
There is a lot of ways you can deal with your life. Life puts you through a lot of challenges that some people are not made for. The big questions of life are “what is life about” and “what am I living for?” Some people cannot face these questions if they don’t know how to solve them. But if you just leave them be they’ll turn into something worse. Such meeting with a challenge can be very frustrating and for some it can cause the actions of suicide.
This is the problem for Jon, the main character in the novel “Yellow”. In the novel Jon is described as overweight but in good physical condition forty-year-old man, who works at a magazine in London.
Jon has many problems with his work. Nobody wanted to take the assignment by going to Egypt, and write about scuba diving, “The editor had forced him to come out here on this freebie learn-to-scuba-dive trip”1. When Jon drags himself down to the scuba diving training he soon realises that he hasn’t got what it takes to become a scuba diver.
Jon also has a problem with his girlfriend back home. Whom he hasn’t been talking with lately2 “They hadn’t paid for his girlfriend to come, either. Mind you, the way things were going that was probably a plus.” He hasn’t got many friends either so he has been quite lonely lately.
Jon has an inner voice talking to him throughout the whole novel, which he can’t quite handle. Normally when you come to a situation like this most people try to escape and not dealing with it. Jon is terrified of water and he’s very angry with himself because of it. He calls himself yellow, which refers to story’s title. He thinks of himself as a coward because he’s afraid of diving and he envies the other guy on the diving school, Brian’s courage in the water. A lot of people would think that being close to death is what makes it exciting and a great experience by pushing themselves to their limits, Jon, however, does not feel the thrill of being this close to
A novel by Peter Carty
There is a lot of ways you can deal with your life. Life puts you through a lot of challenges that some people are not made for. The big questions of life are “what is life about” and “what am I living for?” Some people cannot face these questions if they don’t know how to solve them. But if you just leave them be they’ll turn into something worse. Such meeting with a challenge can be very frustrating and for some it can cause the actions of suicide.
This is the problem for Jon, the main character in the novel “Yellow”. In the novel Jon is described as overweight but in good physical condition forty-year-old man, who works at a magazine in London.
Jon has many problems with his work. Nobody wanted to take the assignment by going to Egypt, and write about scuba diving, “The editor had forced him to come out here on this freebie learn-to-scuba-dive trip”1. When Jon drags himself down to the scuba diving training he soon realises that he hasn’t got what it takes to become a scuba diver.
Jon also has a problem with his girlfriend back home. Whom he hasn’t been talking with lately2 “They hadn’t paid for his girlfriend to come, either. Mind you, the way things were going that was probably a plus.” He hasn’t got many friends either so he has been quite lonely lately.
Jon has an inner voice talking to him throughout the whole novel, which he can’t quite handle. Normally when you come to a situation like this most people try to escape and not dealing with it. Jon is terrified of water and he’s very angry with himself because of it. He calls himself yellow, which refers to story’s title. He thinks of himself as a coward because he’s afraid of diving and he envies the other guy on the diving school, Brian’s courage in the water. A lot of people would think that being close to death is what makes it exciting and a great experience by pushing themselves to their limits, Jon, however, does not feel the thrill of being this close to