Why I transformed myself into a Nightinggale-Review
Often one finds themselves in the middle of a novel or short story engaged in one goal. To simply read the work for its face value and mere words printed on paper to reach the climactic and almost certain moral value that we hope all stores will have in the end. Consider the following passage by Wolfgang Hildesheimer from his short story of Why I Transformed Myself into a Nightingale: My father was a zoologist. Because he thought the literature on batrachia was incompetent and rather inaccurate, he spent his life writing a multivolume study on the subject which became famous in scholarly circles. This work never really appealed to me, although we had lots of frogs and salamanders at home whose lives and patterns of development would have merited my study. My mother had been an actress before she married, and she achieved her greatest triumph as Ophelia at the Zwickau State Theater; she never surpassed this high watermark. To this I owe my name Laertes, certainly a euphonious but somewhat peculiar name. Nevertheless, I am grateful that she didn't name me Polonius or Guildenstern---but of course it doesn't matter now. When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic set. I learned how to make a certa
Soon the magic kit no longer satisfied me because in the meantime I had learned to read, and on the cover I read the demeaning phrase "The Little Magician. In a way we all need a metamorphosis. " Here lies the key to emptiness and the onset of depression. Toys are always representative of the perfect world, or the perfect wishful world, that can never be claimed or really imagined when push comes to shove. The fact is he began to see that unless drastic measures were taken, he could never be more than what he was taught or told to be. All the while, our young subject is becoming aware that his life has become based on the drive of his parents and the basis of a non real world of knowledge. He has done so to satisfy his parents' wishes, and his need to be a part of both them was becoming inescapable. I truly believe it will change the direction in which you may have viewed this short story as a whole the first time through. The manufacturer of this toy seemed intent on ignoring the educational value and suppressing the child's awakening sense of utility. Parents want their children to be a representative of whom they are/were. Why is there so much detail? Is there some sort of link to choice of becoming a magician at a young age by both the parents and the child? Perhaps the fact of wanting to become his own person and to be free of the parental chains of acceptance drives this story by the above choice of words. Toys are entertainment and a way to make money off the lack of knowledge of a young child. Everything has a meaning for a reason. It is clear that this is not the expectations of our young subject, but the path had been laid before him. This also seems to be an easy escape to please both parents at an early age in regards to parental loyalty.
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