Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Assassination of Light at the River's Flow - Connor
This story can be read as an example of the "classic" of tragedy (well, not tragedy, but you get my point) - the poetic, smart, young girl who only wants to pursue her education is denied her dream to be married to an old, fat slob. Of course, the mother only wants Raha to do so because she would receive a dowry for the marriage (this is not said, yet I feel that it is implied. However, this is a young girl who looks up to her parents, who adores them from afar, and yet, the mother "betrays" her (from Raha's perspective). Apparently they had been through this before, and Raha had told her mother that she did not want to marry Fahid. However, her mother tries to make her, and when Raha says again that she will not marry Fahid, her mother, whom she adored (as I said before) beats and attacks her. This is why the story starts with the telling of an "assassination" - it is not a person who has been assassinated, but Raha's dreams and freedom.
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Excellent post! Her dreams and freedom have been assassinated, and in her bright, flowery world where the blood is far, far away, it really is her "assassination of light". Her dreams and her freedom to think whatever, to do whatever, to say whatever are all she cares about in life, so it's almost as if she's not living anymore. When you say her and her mother had been through thish before, does that mean that they had been through the violence, or the argument over Fahid? I assume you mean Fahid. And when you say Raha had previously adored her mother, you made me think "Is that all it really is, or is their some deeper meaning?" It's like the magician who performed at our school said: "Many things in the world are not actually there; your brain fills them in for your eyes, creating an illusion." I wonder: Has Raha's entire life been an illusion? Has she been living in deciet, her brain refusing to believe that her parents are the kind of parents to force marriage and to beat their child, or is it really just more blood?
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