The Journey Of Sel-Discovery Analysis
gives the awareness not rely on the materialistic patriarchal society. In the journey of sel- discovery, the narrator is collapsed with the memories of the past and her thoughts of her mother give her power and strength about the society and natural world. The narrator considers both herself and her boyfriend Joe as animals. She asks Joe to have physical contact with her. Moreover, she forces him for the same at the outside world. Through this action, she wants to mingle with this new unborn child. The new baby is the healing element for the old one. Her ideas and concepts show the elements of feminine “He trembles and then I can feel my lost child surfacing within me, forgiving me, rising from the lake where it has been prisoned for so long,
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The fish changes its form and transforms to different organism and it returns to the same one as fish. Same wise, in the internal and external journey, the narrator has transformed and changed inti different species and finally returns to the same human being. At last, she has decided to return to the cabin and arrange to travel back. Here, the narrator is ready to return to civilization and she says,” The word games, the winning and losing games are finished:” (197). The narrator directly wants to mingle of life and death in nature, “Leopard frog with green spots and gold- rimmed eyes, ancestor. It includes me, it shines, nothing moves but its throat breathing” (185). She has the energy of transformation; “I lean against a tree, I am a tree leaning… I am not in animal or a tree, I am the thing in which the trees and animals move and grow” 187). The narrator has had the vision of her mother and her feeding of birds. Mother disappears but the birds survive. This shows that the sense is the compliment to nature. Barbara Hill Rigney says, “Almost witchlike, with her long hair and wearing her magically powerful leather jacket, the mother feeds wild birds from her hand, charms a bear, and is in tune with the seasons” (After 91). Her father has provided her the power of seeing and insight “gazes at me with its yellow eyes, wolf’s eyes, depthless but lament as the eyes of animals seen at night in the car headlights”
The fish changes its form and transforms to different organism and it returns to the same one as fish. Same wise, in the internal and external journey, the narrator has transformed and changed inti different species and finally returns to the same human being. At last, she has decided to return to the cabin and arrange to travel back. Here, the narrator is ready to return to civilization and she says,” The word games, the winning and losing games are finished:” (197). The narrator directly wants to mingle of life and death in nature, “Leopard frog with green spots and gold- rimmed eyes, ancestor. It includes me, it shines, nothing moves but its throat breathing” (185). She has the energy of transformation; “I lean against a tree, I am a tree leaning… I am not in animal or a tree, I am the thing in which the trees and animals move and grow” 187). The narrator has had the vision of her mother and her feeding of birds. Mother disappears but the birds survive. This shows that the sense is the compliment to nature. Barbara Hill Rigney says, “Almost witchlike, with her long hair and wearing her magically powerful leather jacket, the mother feeds wild birds from her hand, charms a bear, and is in tune with the seasons” (After 91). Her father has provided her the power of seeing and insight “gazes at me with its yellow eyes, wolf’s eyes, depthless but lament as the eyes of animals seen at night in the car headlights”