The Freeing of the Parakeets
Happiness, it says, is not a state to arrive at but a matter of travelling. How is it for those who only travel for their whole lives without finding any luck and without finding any purpose? The world with its every single organism wants to be happy, but do we really take in consideration those who just travel without finding any peace and stop thinking about ourselves and the things in our life we consider the worst? In Post Office Charles Bukowski elaborately describes the life of a low life looser and the travelling to happiness, which is far beyond the reality in this coarse novel.
Henry, “Hank”, Chinaski is a middle-aged, alcoholic low life looser. He is bitter and bright but is too indolent to do something about his actual intelligence. Henry Chinaski is living a life consisting of beer cans, poverty, fusty flats and a great amount of sexual intercourses with known and foreign women. He is an employee at the US Postal Services and curses his menial job before everything else. In the beginning of the novel he works under the sadistic supervisor Jonstone, colloquially called “The Stone”. The Stone’s first interest is working his employees to death in which weather it might be. Chinaski is not in good shape and on top of that he arrives to work every morning intoxicated. His bad attitude …show more content…
Bukowski has positioned all the focus on the internal psychological environment of his character Henry Chinaski, therefore the external environment is placed behind curtains. The time perspective, such as the environment, does not play a decisive role in the novel, neither is it of any importance. Charles Bukowski wrote this novel as an autobiography, reflecting back at his own earlier intoxicated life. Post Office was published 1971, by that time Bukowski had reached 50 years; by means must the novel take place at time about the 1930’s to the
Happiness, it says, is not a state to arrive at but a matter of travelling. How is it for those who only travel for their whole lives without finding any luck and without finding any purpose? The world with its every single organism wants to be happy, but do we really take in consideration those who just travel without finding any peace and stop thinking about ourselves and the things in our life we consider the worst? In Post Office Charles Bukowski elaborately describes the life of a low life looser and the travelling to happiness, which is far beyond the reality in this coarse novel.
Henry, “Hank”, Chinaski is a middle-aged, alcoholic low life looser. He is bitter and bright but is too indolent to do something about his actual intelligence. Henry Chinaski is living a life consisting of beer cans, poverty, fusty flats and a great amount of sexual intercourses with known and foreign women. He is an employee at the US Postal Services and curses his menial job before everything else. In the beginning of the novel he works under the sadistic supervisor Jonstone, colloquially called “The Stone”. The Stone’s first interest is working his employees to death in which weather it might be. Chinaski is not in good shape and on top of that he arrives to work every morning intoxicated. His bad attitude …show more content…
Bukowski has positioned all the focus on the internal psychological environment of his character Henry Chinaski, therefore the external environment is placed behind curtains. The time perspective, such as the environment, does not play a decisive role in the novel, neither is it of any importance. Charles Bukowski wrote this novel as an autobiography, reflecting back at his own earlier intoxicated life. Post Office was published 1971, by that time Bukowski had reached 50 years; by means must the novel take place at time about the 1930’s to the