just wrote a story one Sunday
So I'm in the verge of starting with my exams, *two days!!* and yes, I'm getting pretty crazy, yet I still feel like commenting something around here. I wanted to write a review but suddenly felt short of material, waa, yes I've been focusing on study or a better expression of what really was happening would be spending my time trying to study. Or in the emphisize form, trying to study was what I was doing. Is it correct????
The big question is wheter I'm going to be able to pass or not. But that would be unveiled by next month for sure! Well, as I'm starting one Kimutaku dorama and not yet done with episode 1!! and I'm trying to give it a second try to Sakurai's bambi, btw he looks really great in that one; then because of that I have nothing completed to report on. So I decided to comment on a short story I was force to read, this one was imposed on me to read and it does leave a big impression on your innocence, that's if you still have one, as everything my teacher chooses to ask us to read.
About who
This short story is written by British novelist Angus Wilson, it was his first short story and it appears in his first collection, The Wrong Set published in 1949.
His carrer as a writer began after a serious nervous breakdown during the war, and the stroy he claimed was the first he ever wrote certainly gives a disturbing sense of his mind.
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
pag. 395 Wilson, Angus
It is weird sometimes to think about the source of our inspiration, but I've read that starting to write, help him to survive his mental and social issues.
Sir Wilson according to Wikipedia
The psychotherapist who gave me much assistance at the height of this crisis did in fact advise me to write as an occupational therapy, but then he also asked me to draw my dreams and to collect wild flowers. I have therefore never been willing to regard my writing as imposed on me by a witch-doctor.
THE WILD GARDEN
Angus Wilson
About the plot
I'm giving a lot spoilers here, so, skip this part if you have some intentions to read the story, this will be what I'll tell my teacher, if I ever reach to that point. *He loves to go directly to the end, he is the biggest spoiler ever!! LOL*
The title
Plot
The writer tells a story of a boy of thirteen, he is an imaginative lonely son of conventional, self-centred upper middle class parents in an English village. He has only two friends in the village: two old sisters of gentle birth, now impoverished, drunken and the subject of village scandal. While an adult group at his mother's house gossip about the two old women, asking whether they are suitable friends for the boy, Johnnie returns in his mind to the episode that, unknown to his family, has brought his friendship with them to an end, a terrible and traumatic episode for him. The two old women had invited him to tea. When he arrived they were clearly disturbed and deranged. They invited him with alcoholic drinks. Then, they brought in a bullfinch, 'the prisoner', and tortured it to death in front of him. The act, witnessed by the boy with incredible horror, is in fact a culmination of rising paranoia produced in the simple, imaginative, generous old women by the narrow-minded malice and jealousy that their originality has aroused in the village. The "raspberry jam" of the title describes what the bird looks like when its killers have finished with it.
My Impressions
I liked the narrative of the story because it gives an insight into Johnnie's way of thinking. The style of writing is in retrospective because Johnnie goes back in time to recall the facts occurred in the past. Even though the story itself is rather creepy and disturbing, it takes the reader into a crescendo of described emotions and detailed images that represent with increasing intensity the madness and innocence, until they reach the final outcome.
It was also really interesting reading the thoughts of the writer itself about the story and how it analizes it. The moral that it carries, even against the intentions of the writer, it's evident as we perceive the real nature of the old ladies, and later with Jonnie's interpretations of the acts and how deeply it is going to affect his life.
The irony is that in destroying the friendship with the child they also destroy any good trait and emphatic perception we could have formed through the child's attraction for these ladies, and that is what makes of them pathetic characters.
An analysis of the making of that first short story may suggest some of the ways in which a novelist unconsciously comes to make one moral statement while supposing that he is making another.
THE WILD GARDEN
Angus Wilson
The moral
As expressed by the author himself, the moral is different from what he wanted to portray at the moment of writing, and for what my understanding dictates it is, that you should grow up, and not try to remain the same.
In my personal opinion I think it was inevitable for me to bond with this child, who wouldn't recall being innocent once and looked at the grown up world with a clearer view of all its viscious flaws? And along with this flow who wouldn't felt at least compassion for this outdated old women? From his childish point of view they were the ones who remain uncontamined with the hypocrisy and falsehood of the grown ups he knew. But towards the end, we realize that such a state was really difficult to sustain and to avoid from exploding into terrible circumstances. Highly unstable and highly out of comprenhension because of its existence out the logic patterns, this state of false self-imposed innocence and igorance, is no more desirable than raspberry jam for Johnnie or us after reading this story.
I bet you never see this in the same way
In his restless pursuit of a fictional form that would convey both the substance and the staginess of social relationships and private self-knowledge, Wilson helps to explain how postwar realism, with its confidently documentary imperatives, could turn into something far more complex and unsettling.
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
pag. 396 Wilson, Angus
That's it!
Hope my inner Sho shows up on thursday, I'm a bit terrify, but still I'll go there, ganbarimasu!
Will you? There's something about winter and these guys!
Right??!
BTW still have many impression on Choco Jun but here my fave part of episode 6, no much Saeko on this one, but at least highly annoying Souta starts to use his brains for other thing than chocolate.
Right??!
Unrelated thouhg, I really think ChocoJun is helping me with my Japanese, I watch it first raw and then with subs and compare my comprenhension levels. Also unrelated I think I prefer a non-native subs because I find them more clear to my understanding, wonder why? I still don't consider myself lecture to make a judgement regarless Japanese-English translation quality .
*BTW the gif is no mine, from Tumblr eyes-with-delight
Jaaa ne!
The big question is wheter I'm going to be able to pass or not. But that would be unveiled by next month for sure! Well, as I'm starting one Kimutaku dorama and not yet done with episode 1!! and I'm trying to give it a second try to Sakurai's bambi, btw he looks really great in that one; then because of that I have nothing completed to report on. So I decided to comment on a short story I was force to read, this one was imposed on me to read and it does leave a big impression on your innocence, that's if you still have one, as everything my teacher chooses to ask us to read.
About who
This short story is written by British novelist Angus Wilson, it was his first short story and it appears in his first collection, The Wrong Set published in 1949.
His carrer as a writer began after a serious nervous breakdown during the war, and the stroy he claimed was the first he ever wrote certainly gives a disturbing sense of his mind.
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
pag. 395 Wilson, Angus
It is weird sometimes to think about the source of our inspiration, but I've read that starting to write, help him to survive his mental and social issues.
Sir Wilson according to Wikipedia
The psychotherapist who gave me much assistance at the height of this crisis did in fact advise me to write as an occupational therapy, but then he also asked me to draw my dreams and to collect wild flowers. I have therefore never been willing to regard my writing as imposed on me by a witch-doctor.
THE WILD GARDEN
Angus Wilson
About the plot
I'm giving a lot spoilers here, so, skip this part if you have some intentions to read the story, this will be what I'll tell my teacher, if I ever reach to that point. *He loves to go directly to the end, he is the biggest spoiler ever!! LOL*
The title
Plot
The writer tells a story of a boy of thirteen, he is an imaginative lonely son of conventional, self-centred upper middle class parents in an English village. He has only two friends in the village: two old sisters of gentle birth, now impoverished, drunken and the subject of village scandal. While an adult group at his mother's house gossip about the two old women, asking whether they are suitable friends for the boy, Johnnie returns in his mind to the episode that, unknown to his family, has brought his friendship with them to an end, a terrible and traumatic episode for him. The two old women had invited him to tea. When he arrived they were clearly disturbed and deranged. They invited him with alcoholic drinks. Then, they brought in a bullfinch, 'the prisoner', and tortured it to death in front of him. The act, witnessed by the boy with incredible horror, is in fact a culmination of rising paranoia produced in the simple, imaginative, generous old women by the narrow-minded malice and jealousy that their originality has aroused in the village. The "raspberry jam" of the title describes what the bird looks like when its killers have finished with it.
My Impressions
I liked the narrative of the story because it gives an insight into Johnnie's way of thinking. The style of writing is in retrospective because Johnnie goes back in time to recall the facts occurred in the past. Even though the story itself is rather creepy and disturbing, it takes the reader into a crescendo of described emotions and detailed images that represent with increasing intensity the madness and innocence, until they reach the final outcome.
It was also really interesting reading the thoughts of the writer itself about the story and how it analizes it. The moral that it carries, even against the intentions of the writer, it's evident as we perceive the real nature of the old ladies, and later with Jonnie's interpretations of the acts and how deeply it is going to affect his life.
The irony is that in destroying the friendship with the child they also destroy any good trait and emphatic perception we could have formed through the child's attraction for these ladies, and that is what makes of them pathetic characters.
An analysis of the making of that first short story may suggest some of the ways in which a novelist unconsciously comes to make one moral statement while supposing that he is making another.
THE WILD GARDEN
Angus Wilson
The moral
As expressed by the author himself, the moral is different from what he wanted to portray at the moment of writing, and for what my understanding dictates it is, that you should grow up, and not try to remain the same.
In my personal opinion I think it was inevitable for me to bond with this child, who wouldn't recall being innocent once and looked at the grown up world with a clearer view of all its viscious flaws? And along with this flow who wouldn't felt at least compassion for this outdated old women? From his childish point of view they were the ones who remain uncontamined with the hypocrisy and falsehood of the grown ups he knew. But towards the end, we realize that such a state was really difficult to sustain and to avoid from exploding into terrible circumstances. Highly unstable and highly out of comprenhension because of its existence out the logic patterns, this state of false self-imposed innocence and igorance, is no more desirable than raspberry jam for Johnnie or us after reading this story.
I bet you never see this in the same way
In his restless pursuit of a fictional form that would convey both the substance and the staginess of social relationships and private self-knowledge, Wilson helps to explain how postwar realism, with its confidently documentary imperatives, could turn into something far more complex and unsettling.
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
pag. 396 Wilson, Angus
That's it!
Hope my inner Sho shows up on thursday, I'm a bit terrify, but still I'll go there, ganbarimasu!
Will you? There's something about winter and these guys!
Right??!
BTW still have many impression on Choco Jun but here my fave part of episode 6, no much Saeko on this one, but at least highly annoying Souta starts to use his brains for other thing than chocolate.
Right??!
Unrelated thouhg, I really think ChocoJun is helping me with my Japanese, I watch it first raw and then with subs and compare my comprenhension levels. Also unrelated I think I prefer a non-native subs because I find them more clear to my understanding, wonder why? I still don't consider myself lecture to make a judgement regarless Japanese-English translation quality .
*BTW the gif is no mine, from Tumblr eyes-with-delight
Jaaa ne!