In the short story “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” the author, Yasunari Kawabata, is telling a story about finding a group of children who all have beautifully made lanterns. This story seems to have no meaning until the reader comes to the end and the author explains what he sees in the situation of two young children inspecting the bell cricket. The children are on an insect hunt and the narrator has decided to watch them. Like the children, he was drawn to the ridge by an “insects voice”. The children come out every night to search for bugs and each night they craft a new lantern. While the narrator is watching them, a young boy begins to yell, “Who wants a grasshopper?” Soon, several children are surrounding him, but the boy waits
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Each day they made new lanterns because the ones that they had the night before were no longer pleasing to them. Kawabata shows this by telling the reader, “The pattern of light that one had had in hand the night before was unsatisfying the morning after” (Kawabata 267). Some people do this is relationships. They find something else that they like and they move on. Yet, with each new lantern that the children made, they improved. The children who had bought there’s at the store also threw out their lanterns and soon the narrator suggests that the children were “wise child artists, cutting out round, three cornered, and lozenge leaf shapes in the cartons, coloring each little window a different color. Just as we do in relationships each child improved their lantern a little each night. With each relationship, we learn and we grow gradually changing us from grasshopper to bell cricket for the right person. When first beginning to analyze the short story “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” by Yasunari Kawabata, one may think that the author simply states what he is trying to say. After giving the tale a deeper look, it can be found that Kawabata has hidden even deeper meanings in the story that may not catch the eye the first or even the second time reading the story. Soon it is clear that this tale is about love, its hardships, and not knowing the right one when you see
Each day they made new lanterns because the ones that they had the night before were no longer pleasing to them. Kawabata shows this by telling the reader, “The pattern of light that one had had in hand the night before was unsatisfying the morning after” (Kawabata 267). Some people do this is relationships. They find something else that they like and they move on. Yet, with each new lantern that the children made, they improved. The children who had bought there’s at the store also threw out their lanterns and soon the narrator suggests that the children were “wise child artists, cutting out round, three cornered, and lozenge leaf shapes in the cartons, coloring each little window a different color. Just as we do in relationships each child improved their lantern a little each night. With each relationship, we learn and we grow gradually changing us from grasshopper to bell cricket for the right person. When first beginning to analyze the short story “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” by Yasunari Kawabata, one may think that the author simply states what he is trying to say. After giving the tale a deeper look, it can be found that Kawabata has hidden even deeper meanings in the story that may not catch the eye the first or even the second time reading the story. Soon it is clear that this tale is about love, its hardships, and not knowing the right one when you see