Debora Arko-Mensah
Ault
AP Lang
07 October 2015
McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
Stories Book The story , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is focused mainly on a peculiar individual named Mr.Singer and how his interactions with people affected them. When the story starts, it illustrates two deaf-mutes presiding in a Southern town who are very good friends. Their names John Singer and Antonopoulos. All is well until Antonopoulos becomes sick and the put in an asylum by his cousin leaving Singer all alone without his best friend. Singer begins to dawdle aimlessly through the town. He encounters four very different people, an african-american doctor, an alcoholic socialist, a teenage girl, and a quiet dinner owner who keeps to himself. Over the duration of a year immense refinements take place in their lives. The teenage girl-Mick- loses her virginity and her hope for the future as her family bears appalling poverty. Dr. Copeland relinquishes his son due to wrongful incarceration and his own health declines as he contracts tuberculosis. The socialist loses his mind and eventually his job; the diner owner his wife and some of his sublimation. Singer truly becomes a support system for each of theses people. The all perceive that Singer understands them very well, …show more content…
It’s the type of peace to really make you think about people in terms of those who you think have perfect lives just because they look like they have it all together. My favorite part of the book is whenever Mr.Singer would meet somebody that didn’t know him and he had to hand them his card explaining his condition so they wouldn’t think he was crazy moving his hands around in the air in elaborate shapes and patterns. I also liked the fact that although it was one story it could easily be divided into four just as powerful stories, with the personal sides of each of the individuals as if it was stories within a
Ault
AP Lang
07 October 2015
McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
Stories Book The story , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is focused mainly on a peculiar individual named Mr.Singer and how his interactions with people affected them. When the story starts, it illustrates two deaf-mutes presiding in a Southern town who are very good friends. Their names John Singer and Antonopoulos. All is well until Antonopoulos becomes sick and the put in an asylum by his cousin leaving Singer all alone without his best friend. Singer begins to dawdle aimlessly through the town. He encounters four very different people, an african-american doctor, an alcoholic socialist, a teenage girl, and a quiet dinner owner who keeps to himself. Over the duration of a year immense refinements take place in their lives. The teenage girl-Mick- loses her virginity and her hope for the future as her family bears appalling poverty. Dr. Copeland relinquishes his son due to wrongful incarceration and his own health declines as he contracts tuberculosis. The socialist loses his mind and eventually his job; the diner owner his wife and some of his sublimation. Singer truly becomes a support system for each of theses people. The all perceive that Singer understands them very well, …show more content…
It’s the type of peace to really make you think about people in terms of those who you think have perfect lives just because they look like they have it all together. My favorite part of the book is whenever Mr.Singer would meet somebody that didn’t know him and he had to hand them his card explaining his condition so they wouldn’t think he was crazy moving his hands around in the air in elaborate shapes and patterns. I also liked the fact that although it was one story it could easily be divided into four just as powerful stories, with the personal sides of each of the individuals as if it was stories within a