How Did John Singer Communicate The Deaf
The deaf-mute John Singer could not communicate with most of the world because he couldn’t speak. He strove to break out of his isolated existence because he desperately needed to communicate his feelings with somebody who understood him. The isolation from which John Singer suffered was a combination of a personal individual control and environmental factors.
John Singer, a tall man with gray eyes, and his friend Spiros Antonapoulos was an obese man of Greek descent. Both men were deaf and dumb and always together. They lived together and walked to work together.
Antonapoulos worked for his cousin, Charles Parker, who owned a fruit store; John Singer worked at a jewelry store as a silverware engraver. On their way home from work, Singer talked (using hand signs) about all that happened during his work day at the store. All Antonapoulos does was sit back lazily, incommunicado (not communicating), except when he wanted to eat, sleep, or drink. The two men had no other friends aside from their colleagues at work, they were always alone together.
One afternoon in November when Singer went to meet Antonapoulos, Charles Parker said he had arranged to have Antonapoulos taken to an insane asylum. Singer helped to pack the best things for Antonapoulos and accompanied him to the train station …show more content…
But when he realized that Singer was gone, he got angry and left. Then Blount saw Singer walking away and he started yelling at him until he -Blount- suddenly lost his balance and fell due to a combination of his drunken stupor the tremendous effort of his yell. The police were called and after the police had carried Blount back into the café; Singer wrote on a piece of paper that Blount could come home with him, and that they should give him some soup and coffee. Blount felt that singer “knew’’ something -something that Blount himself also knew- but that almost everyone else failed to
John Singer, a tall man with gray eyes, and his friend Spiros Antonapoulos was an obese man of Greek descent. Both men were deaf and dumb and always together. They lived together and walked to work together.
Antonapoulos worked for his cousin, Charles Parker, who owned a fruit store; John Singer worked at a jewelry store as a silverware engraver. On their way home from work, Singer talked (using hand signs) about all that happened during his work day at the store. All Antonapoulos does was sit back lazily, incommunicado (not communicating), except when he wanted to eat, sleep, or drink. The two men had no other friends aside from their colleagues at work, they were always alone together.
One afternoon in November when Singer went to meet Antonapoulos, Charles Parker said he had arranged to have Antonapoulos taken to an insane asylum. Singer helped to pack the best things for Antonapoulos and accompanied him to the train station …show more content…
But when he realized that Singer was gone, he got angry and left. Then Blount saw Singer walking away and he started yelling at him until he -Blount- suddenly lost his balance and fell due to a combination of his drunken stupor the tremendous effort of his yell. The police were called and after the police had carried Blount back into the café; Singer wrote on a piece of paper that Blount could come home with him, and that they should give him some soup and coffee. Blount felt that singer “knew’’ something -something that Blount himself also knew- but that almost everyone else failed to