Life is a roller-coaster that everyone get on regardless of their age, nationality, height, or wealth. Some people are afraid of height just like people who struggles in life whether with family, emotional, physical, or social problems. Some people loves the height and it signifies those who have a smoother life by having more access to sources. Everyone have their ups and downs in the roller-coaster. All the twists and turns will eventually end when the ride is over. These ups and downs and twists and turns symbolizes what a person struggle in life. They will gain experience and get wiser as their ride gets closer to the end and the ride gets slower. In I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell, he takes us to the rollercoaster of life through
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Uncle Gurton just showed up, no sound of a truck or car, he was just there. Jess and Joe Robert have been waiting for him because they want to see Uncle Gurton’s beard that he grew for more than forty years; to their disappointment, he tucked his beard inside his overalls bib. One night, Joe Robert and Jess sneaked up to his room to check on the beard. Suddenly the beard starts on getting longer and objects come out, “a birchbark canoe with two painted Cherokee Indians” “hawk” “mermaid” and etc (Chappell 59). The beard signify the journey that a person walk on and he will not see the path ahead of him. I believe that the objects may represents the obstacles that a person experience through lives. Sometimes there are good and bad days. Overwhelmed by these objects, both of them ran out of the room to see the grandmother outside watching them calmly. Joe told the grandma that “I’ve seen an elegant sufficiency. Any more would be superfluity” (Chappell 61). Jess and Joe’s curiosity about Uncle Gurton’s beard is sufficiency, but their desire and will to check the beard has gone to “superfluity”. This chapter is confusing and unrealistic, but it may also be Chappell’s way of saying to not let curiosity get the best out of us because curiosity kills the
Uncle Gurton just showed up, no sound of a truck or car, he was just there. Jess and Joe Robert have been waiting for him because they want to see Uncle Gurton’s beard that he grew for more than forty years; to their disappointment, he tucked his beard inside his overalls bib. One night, Joe Robert and Jess sneaked up to his room to check on the beard. Suddenly the beard starts on getting longer and objects come out, “a birchbark canoe with two painted Cherokee Indians” “hawk” “mermaid” and etc (Chappell 59). The beard signify the journey that a person walk on and he will not see the path ahead of him. I believe that the objects may represents the obstacles that a person experience through lives. Sometimes there are good and bad days. Overwhelmed by these objects, both of them ran out of the room to see the grandmother outside watching them calmly. Joe told the grandma that “I’ve seen an elegant sufficiency. Any more would be superfluity” (Chappell 61). Jess and Joe’s curiosity about Uncle Gurton’s beard is sufficiency, but their desire and will to check the beard has gone to “superfluity”. This chapter is confusing and unrealistic, but it may also be Chappell’s way of saying to not let curiosity get the best out of us because curiosity kills the