After reading ‘Jaring-Jaring Merah’ a short story by Helvy Tiana Rosa, I felt so bad for Inong’s character in the story. One thing that comes to my mind was how suffered she is because people treat her that bad. They hurt both her physic and her mental. They may not think that she is a human who has heart and feeling for being loved or being hated.
Deep in her heart, she might think, what the point of being human who has a feeling if she just allowed to feel anything bad, anything sad, and anything scared. In my opinion, this kind of pain made her imagined herself to be something else and she thinks that bird has a better life than her, so she imagined herself as a bird. In some sentence from the text, Inong often put herself as a bird. “… …show more content…
I intended to make an analogy between Inong and bird’s life. The first stanza of the poem gives a comparison between what Inong wants and how birds are live.
If I were a bird
I can fly as far as I want.
These two lines explained that she really wants to be free. She wants to do everything she wants like what birds can do. In my opinion, she thinks that live as a human only made her suffer because his mind, his life, and his freedom are not even hers.
Birds ain’t that wicked.
They won’t hurt you when you have different route to fly.
The second stanza explained how cruel human are compared to birds. These two lines above show that human’s trait made Inong scared. In this situation, when someone has different opinion and perspective with others, he or she considered as the bad one. Everyone must have the same vision with majority. This issue was so relatable in the New-Order era where freedom of expression was silenced. In this story, Inong’s family killed because they considered against the government and anti-government. “… Ini pelajaran bagi anggota GPK!” (page …show more content…
They won’t take your wings cause their own wings is the one they really love.
These lines show Inong’s misery and her loss because that powerful people took her happiness. The word wings itself represent happiness. When the powerful people killed Inong’s family, it means they took all her happiness because her family is the only happiness for her. Birds are not bad because they never meddle others’ business. It is unlike human who always meddle with others’ life and hurt others.
The third stanza explained Inong’s hope for her land. The word sky symbolizes her homeland, Aceh, Indonesia. Deep in her heart, she really hopes there won’t be any kind of violence, grief, and even bloodshed in her home because they are all human. They live on the same land and breathe under the same sky, so she hopes everyone can live together peacefully and enjoying God’s favor.
The last stanza explained that all the things that she had imagined are just a dream. She cannot be a bird. Finally, she realizes that she want to live as a bird just to escape from her misery and leave her pain because she could not bear her pain any
Deep in her heart, she might think, what the point of being human who has a feeling if she just allowed to feel anything bad, anything sad, and anything scared. In my opinion, this kind of pain made her imagined herself to be something else and she thinks that bird has a better life than her, so she imagined herself as a bird. In some sentence from the text, Inong often put herself as a bird. “… …show more content…
I intended to make an analogy between Inong and bird’s life. The first stanza of the poem gives a comparison between what Inong wants and how birds are live.
If I were a bird
I can fly as far as I want.
These two lines explained that she really wants to be free. She wants to do everything she wants like what birds can do. In my opinion, she thinks that live as a human only made her suffer because his mind, his life, and his freedom are not even hers.
Birds ain’t that wicked.
They won’t hurt you when you have different route to fly.
The second stanza explained how cruel human are compared to birds. These two lines above show that human’s trait made Inong scared. In this situation, when someone has different opinion and perspective with others, he or she considered as the bad one. Everyone must have the same vision with majority. This issue was so relatable in the New-Order era where freedom of expression was silenced. In this story, Inong’s family killed because they considered against the government and anti-government. “… Ini pelajaran bagi anggota GPK!” (page …show more content…
They won’t take your wings cause their own wings is the one they really love.
These lines show Inong’s misery and her loss because that powerful people took her happiness. The word wings itself represent happiness. When the powerful people killed Inong’s family, it means they took all her happiness because her family is the only happiness for her. Birds are not bad because they never meddle others’ business. It is unlike human who always meddle with others’ life and hurt others.
The third stanza explained Inong’s hope for her land. The word sky symbolizes her homeland, Aceh, Indonesia. Deep in her heart, she really hopes there won’t be any kind of violence, grief, and even bloodshed in her home because they are all human. They live on the same land and breathe under the same sky, so she hopes everyone can live together peacefully and enjoying God’s favor.
The last stanza explained that all the things that she had imagined are just a dream. She cannot be a bird. Finally, she realizes that she want to live as a bird just to escape from her misery and leave her pain because she could not bear her pain any