My Life With The Wave Analysis

“My Life with the Wave”, by Octavio Paz, caught me off guard; it lost me at the beginning of the passage. I was confused about how the wave was being portrayed as a mystery woman, which made me look deeper for a name to at least catch on. No name was found, but the author seems to use the wave as a metaphorical image of a woman that he once had a relationship with. I loved the way the narrator spoke about his love for the waves. The text mentioned, while on his way back to his hometown in Mexico, the wave decided that she wanted to follow the main character back to his home. While the main character seem to fall in trouble with the law enforcements because, his lover was not a physical woman, she was actually salt water, that he had to put the water in the faucet onto the train. The problem stepped in, when people …show more content…
A woman being in love can be an, emotional turbulence for some males. The show casing of authorities can be a metaphor being used to showcase how females can be with their spouse; we sometines interrogate, and imprisoned our spouse because of love. The narrator, Paz also further explores themes of freedom and oppression. Sometimes when one go about relationships treating it as though they are law enforcers, the other person on the receiving end sometimes want a break or a divorce, which can be a sign of wanting to be free.
“The Bucket rider” by Franz Kafa, was heart wrenching. The narrator who is the bucket rider, seems to be a poor person who has run out of coals in the winter, Praying to make it through the night. He has run out of coals and is in search for a refill, the text mentioned that, the narrator went to the coal dealer house and asks for coals, the owner of the business wife refused him, and dismissed him from in front their place. With that he ascended into the nearby Ice Mountains and lost forever the text