“I just need you to believe me.”
Daniel Fights a Hurricane and Take Shelter illustrate the story of two hypersensitive men, Daniel and Curtis, who constantly have visions and difficulty distinguishing between reality and imagination. While Daniel’s experience is elaborated by Shane Jones from three perspectives - the first person perspective (“I”), the third person perspective(“he”) and Daniel’s wife Karen’s perspective, Curtis’s is illustrated by Jeff Nichols from just the first person perspective where the audience is taken through his traumatic nightmares and visions. Despite that, both works seem to focus on the two men’s capability of premonition rather than their mental illnesses and one surely can find differences as well as parallel between the two characters.
What is common between Daniel and Curtis is that they both have the self-knowledge of their abnormal behaviors. They consciously seek for help as …show more content…
However different from Curtis, Daniel eventually allows his visions to take over. He “creates a new yellow life” in his mind that he finds “so beautiful that [he] want[s] to live in that instead” (166, 124). In that world, there is once “a hawk tearing apart the throat of a Hurricane” and Daniel is “a giant who lifted up a leaf of sky to peek inside” (p12). The hawk and the vision of himself as a giant seem to reveal Daniel’s ambition to follow his vision and save people from the apocalypse. He also thinks of rather whimsical strategies to defeat the Hurricane such as pushing the elephant stuck at the opening of the pipe out and then letting
Daniel Fights a Hurricane and Take Shelter illustrate the story of two hypersensitive men, Daniel and Curtis, who constantly have visions and difficulty distinguishing between reality and imagination. While Daniel’s experience is elaborated by Shane Jones from three perspectives - the first person perspective (“I”), the third person perspective(“he”) and Daniel’s wife Karen’s perspective, Curtis’s is illustrated by Jeff Nichols from just the first person perspective where the audience is taken through his traumatic nightmares and visions. Despite that, both works seem to focus on the two men’s capability of premonition rather than their mental illnesses and one surely can find differences as well as parallel between the two characters.
What is common between Daniel and Curtis is that they both have the self-knowledge of their abnormal behaviors. They consciously seek for help as …show more content…
However different from Curtis, Daniel eventually allows his visions to take over. He “creates a new yellow life” in his mind that he finds “so beautiful that [he] want[s] to live in that instead” (166, 124). In that world, there is once “a hawk tearing apart the throat of a Hurricane” and Daniel is “a giant who lifted up a leaf of sky to peek inside” (p12). The hawk and the vision of himself as a giant seem to reveal Daniel’s ambition to follow his vision and save people from the apocalypse. He also thinks of rather whimsical strategies to defeat the Hurricane such as pushing the elephant stuck at the opening of the pipe out and then letting