Pappas Chest Of Drawers

Lindsey R. Sims                                                               11:00 MWF         A invigorationtime of memories, once cherished, apparitioner be the reminiscing travel to laste.

        Papas Chest of Drawers is a very symbolical short story. The author portrays everything in an plagiarize and unusual way. The memorializeer must instruction and concentrate on what the author is really trying to get across. This story can be interpreted in many different ways. As for myself, I confuse concluded that the majority of the story was found on death and one mans experience of reaching it. magical spell having death in my mind while reading the story, it institutionalise me in a bad mood, and was drawn more than and more to the negative aspect of the story.                  For example, the man looking through the drawers describes everything in his beginners chest in such(prenominal) detail, and seems very elicit in the memories that the possessions have made. Although he seems to focus on all of the bad things, instead of the good. When describing the gloves found indoors the drawer, These, too, had gr take yellow and dry, had be write out lifeless from losing forever the heat energy of the hands(12), the man could have mentioned how he wished to see them on his dumbfound again, or how he pointd how happy his parents were at his wedding, nevertheless he chose to bring out the bad things n spike heelly the possessions in the drawer. When first reading that passage, the author mentioned The tie was dead...(13). I thought at first that his parents marriage had failed and they no endless were in love with eachother, only if as I read on I then realized that the mother had died from an illness. I also noniced that maybe the man favored his father over his mother, because he didnt seem so interested in looking in her drawer. He only looked in his fathers.

        Due to his mothers death he pointed out that Side by side with these lovely things that directly had their day, were ugly, uninteresting, coarse objects(25), this statement is expressing how their marriage was great, full of happiness, and forthwith that she has died, it has wizened away on the button like the withered branch from the pear tree, which dried up(21). The man very much thinks of hidden sinister thoughts of death, Imagining a human throat, cut from ear to ear in one fell swoop by a mad barber, with streams of crimson, shiny blood pouring from the open mope shaped wound(26). Perhaps why he sees death so negative is because it has affected him personally due to his mothers death. The mother is a very heavy(p) part in the number one of this story.

Although she may have passed away she still p perplexs a aim in how he perceives things due to her death. In Mammas lacquered box, once a bright lemon color, but now faded, the magic picture of the Scythian steppes conjured up in my imagination with the acuate gonorrhea of the closing lid(43). In my personal opinion it is representing her transit towards death. She once was a vibrant young lady but later, because of her illness, withered into something not so attractive, and then fell and couldnt get up, and then soon passed away. After her death I get the idea that she was cremated.

Inoxer suitable deterioration or, anyway, transformation into something else--into the dust which antediluvian poets choose to call ashes(11). This gives me, as the reader, a very big hint that his mother was covered into ashes afterwards her death.

        Life after his mothers death was nothing out of the ordinary. I believe that everyone has their own angel looking out for them at all times, and in my opinion, his mother is his angel. I sensed its presence without being able to find it(45). This, to me, is saying how his mothers spirit is there, and he bonks it is, but he cant quit come to familiarity with the feeling. unless he is glad to hunch that his mother is honoring out for him.

        Now I feel that there is a big turning point in the story. By reading, all(prenominal) the time while I slept and did not breath(59) this mechanically makes me think of death. Of course one does not breath when dead. So therefore this statement makes me think that the man is now dying. And now everything is making sense. His mothers spirit is with him in his last-place moments of life, and is there to invite him to the heavens in a higher domicile to join her. I think the remainder of the story is practiced a exposition on his journey to heaven and the acquaints he reaches while going. The placidity that usually precedes an eclipse of the sun descended all around me. But I still did not believe it would really happen. The deal of the sun, as white and glaring as if it had been made of magnesium, maintained its usual perfect geometric shape, as it floated high above me(60).



That statement symbolizes the swinging at the end of the tunnel theory. why else would anyone pay so much attention to the sun, if it was just another normal day? I could not rouse my eyes away from the dark sooty square of glass, the sharp white circle of the sun seemed alien and out of place in that inappropriate, dim smoky world(69). Not remunerative attention to anything but the light coming toward you gives me even more of a clue that he is in his final legal proceeding of life. He cant tear away from the light coming closer and closer toward him. Any other person, not reaching their death, would not pay attention and would quickly turn away, but he is now dying and is in the final formats. His experiences are magical and unreal, and a great privilege to have such an image of dying. The next passage is the final stage of what I think he saw while completing the process of death. And then I suddenly noticed a slight roughness, blurring its edge, then a black spot that step by step became transformed into an oval, white disc of the sun turned into a half-moon. A whiff of ice-cold air from high up in the heavens seemed to ruffle my hair as the shadow of the moon raced across the bout fields.(70) Now he has last reached heaven but he doesnt quite know what is going on yet. He is now somewhere peaceful, and the battle fields is now the earth and all of its negativity that he has surpassed and moved on from. He realizes that something is strange, but doesnt know what is going on until...Then I woke up and lay still, very still, Oh how long, indeed, my sleep must have been so strange to find myself alive and not dead in a world filled, too, with happiness, goodness and the joy of life(59). He may think he is alive now, but he is dead, just in another world, what we call heaven. He is surrounded by peace, and is happier than ever. All of his problems are now solved.

        I think everyone allow for have their own individual experience of their journey to death, but to experience his was extraordinary. I believe that he saw his life flashing before his eyes in his final transactions on earth. He remembered moments of his childhood and recollected memories of his parents and their great moments. How he died? We do not know, but we do know his exciting journey to the place where he now calls home.

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