If Nobody Speaks Or Remarkable Things Essay

Throughout our lives we are faced with people, object, scenery, and events that we neglect. It is only when these ignored things are bought to our attention that we stop and reflect upon them. In the novel, “If Nobody Speaks or Remarkable Things”, the tragic event that is the main pivot point in the novel takes place on the same day that another, significant yet never mentioned, event occurs. This neglect of mentioning this figure highlights to the reader a significant theme weaved throughout this novel, the notion of human ignorance. This theme makes the reader recollect with the idea that for one to cherish something ones attention must be brought to it. The novel in the end makes the reader reflect on everyday issues, events and objects, no matter how mundane or unattractive they are they must be cherished because these things are all short lived and will be missed once gone. The reader comes to the attention of Princess Diana’s death when the boy in number eighteen inscribes the date of the accident on a Polaroid photograph (McGregor, 28). This date, especially for the English, immediately recognize this as the date Princess Diana died. Yet through out this novel here death is not even stated or gestured towards, and any significance of this day is diverted …show more content…
In the book “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, we are faced with these themes and are forced to ask the questions why we as humans ignore that many wonders of the world. The books shows examples where the boy Shahid’s existence was not known until his believed death, and beautiful and mundane things are not though of like crushed glass, the idea of existence, naming, and unique characters until they are pointed out. This book in the end makes us as the reader recollect with the notion of our own ignorance and how we should avoid it, so we do not miss a Shahid, or a boy from number