“The day you stop talking” she replied. When your mouth itself has been eaten by the fire. That will be the day” (Rashide,). When Seniors wife said those words I immediately thought that, for as bad as Senior was with managing people in his life =, his own wife would also manifest feelings of worthlessness or envy due to his sour personality (Rashide,). While reading “See The Other Side” envy is exemplified in the way of a young girl failing to have the same vision or such high expectations that she is unable to see the beauty in the object the same way that others see it. When the young girl’s father dies all she has in remembrance are post cards from the places of his travels. During the story the girl retraces her father’s footsteps in order to maybe establish some sort of bond in the way of similar experiences with her father. (Tolstaya,) Upon realizing that she herself, fails to relate to the uniqueness or beauty that was expressed by her father’s postcard. “I’m here, I love you. Do you love me? Do you share my pleasure and joy? Do you see the beauty that I see? Greetings! Hers a post card! Here’s a cheap, glossy photograph – I was here! It was wonderful! Oh, if only you could be here, too! (Tolstaya,). As the girl tries to follow in her father’s footsteps, she is extremely envious and hurt when she is unable to make the same connection at the church that …show more content…
He wants to hear more; he puts in coin after coin. He throws coins into darkness, and from darkness sounds a voice that tells his, as much as possible, about the great picture of beauty” (Tolstoya,). Envy is exemplified in the book “Nothing to Envy” in the way of how Korean people envyed the Chinese people and the luxuries they were able to enjoy. Take for instance the bowl of food left in a Chinese persons backyard to feed their pets, was just as inciting and desirable to a North Korean refuge. There are many different instances in the book like the other two readings that relate to envy when it comes to the relationships of men and woman. (Demick,) When reading “Nothing to Envy” the part when the North Korean made it to freedom, was a definitely a feeling of envy held by his or her family, most of whom were still able to partake in their country’s cultural events and daily way of life. Also the families may have felt envy towards the ones who were able to defect to the South. Not only were they at risk of persecution but were also still susceptible to all of the country’s economies distress and famine. The refugees also envy the simplicity of life in North Korea. South Korea is very much advanced in ways that complicates or may take some time to get used to for the Northerners