The Ash Garden Analysis

Silence, like cancer grows, and can infect all happiness of a character if it takes a hold of them. In Dennis Brocks Novel the Ash garden Emiko and Anton’s happiness is blown away in an instant as a bomb fell from the sky. Emiko and Anton’s pursuit of happiness is compromised through their isolation and unless they connect with each other then they will never move on to the path of self-discovery. Both of them compromise their happiness through their atrocities they witnessed, the silence that came after, and the loneliness that follows

Tragically, Emiko has been blasted into a world of isolation from a very young age. She has spent whole childhood in hospitals. These prisons have directly affected how she views the world and destroys any …show more content…
“I tried not to cry” she says as the doctors do horrendous surgeries and procedures. This causes her to be unhappy because Emiko is always …show more content…
Emiko’s Film making isolates her even more so because she no longer sees the world with her own eyes. She is a “fish in a glass bowl” this single view of the world causes her to be unable to view other opinions, allows her to attack people, and also detaches herself from the world. Film makers make film to show their opinion. Emiko denies that she “starts with themes and plots” but she really does. She uses her films as a tactic to find the truth of what really happened in Hiroshima and she also uses it to attack Anton. “It must help you sleep at night.” her film making allows her to twist the world around and make it hers. Since she is a negative person all of the content that comes through her lens is filtered to be negative. This filter causes her to become detached from the world around her and she only sees what she wants to see. Her love for film however has caused her to connect deeply with Anton, something they both need in order to move on with their