Yan Lu
Mr. Connolly
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16 December 2012
The Lonely World
“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship we can create the illusion for the moment that we are not alone.” (Orson Welles) This points to the idea that we can never be alone and loneliness is a human condition. When you are lonely, you are looking for someone or something to fill the void in your heart. To those of us who have lived in this world, it is a necessary process for the growth of the human. In Crabbe and American Born Chinese, loneliness can be shown pretty obvious throughout the entire story.
In my first book Crabbe, the protagonist Crabbe is a withdrawn guy and he has terrible relationship with his parents and teachers. The loneliness can be shown in the following several scenes, when he stayed at school, Crabbe is always alone, he thinks nobody is really interested in what you feel, so he can not find any good friends to talk to. He does not really like people at school. In the story, it states: “At school nobody is particularly interested in your feelings and they only pretend to be interested in your ideas.” (William, 19) When Crabbe stay at the ward, he is “ Watch the moving lights and listen to the the sounds of motion” and “Spend a lot of the day watching the highway too.” (William, 9) Those two quotations can show Crabbe is pretty lonely at the ward, he does not try to find some friends on his floor because he thinks “There is nobody my ages on out floor since i came-all the teenagers are up on Fifth in the psycho ward. I am in this ward because they do not quite know what to do with me.” (William, 10). Crabbe does not feels comfortable and love at home. He thinks his father does not understand and encourage him. Crabbe’s parents make him feel like he is not good enough to be their son. He decides to run away because he is unhappy with his life, since there are many signs that show Crabbe’s unhappiness and loneliness. In the story Crabbe said: “I do not say I escaped for only one reason, or that it was all revenge. I was sick of my life and already sick of the future that everybody had panned for me but nobody bothered to consult mt about. I wanted to be free, to opt out of the plan.”(William, 20) In this quotation we can know that Crabbe really wants to escape his present life and wants to be free. It is also can show that Crabbe is lonely.
In my Second book American Born Chinese, it can respectively shows the loneliness in two different ways. The two ways are through by the two protagonists. Jing Wang is the first one came to American in this book, when he come to school at first day, his classmate does not like him, he thinks Jing Wang may ate dogs. Some of them going to bully him at lunch, they came to fins him and says: “What the hell is that?” They are laughing what Jing Wei eating and they warning him: “Stay away from my dogs.” When they are leave, they are teasing him and say: “Come on. Let’s leave Bucktooth alone so he can enjoy lassie.” (Gene,33) Those quotations can be shown that Jing Wang is lonely at school very obvious, his classmates did not respect him and make him feels self-abased. After several mouths, the second protagonist Wei Chen came to school. At the first day, he has no friends too, and his self-introduction made Jin Wang does not really like him. In the story, Jing Wang said: “Somethings made me want to beat him up.” And when Wei Chen wants to make friend with him, Jing Wang said: “I have enough friends.” And when Wei Chen spoke Chinese, Jing Wang told him “You are in America, speak English.” (Gene, 37) But at end of this day, they still became good friends because Wei Chen shows Jing Wang a Toy Robot and let him play it. It can shows that how Wei Chen is lonely and how he try to make him not lonely.
We can not leave alone in our life but we can try to find something makes us not alone. In Crabbe, the loneliness can be shown by different ways. When he stays at home he feels no love , when he stays at school, he has no friends. And in American Born Chinese, the loneliness can be shown by the two protagonists, what happened when they come to school at the first day. Everyone may lonely in their life, but how do we avoid lonely and enrich our lives?
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