RE: Finish the Fiction Story Contest - Week #36 - @bananafish
One can feel imprisoned between the free and feel completely free between all the prisoners.
Susie is one who lives in a modern world (like us now more or less). She doesn't seem to feel free and is only interested in herself, represented by her selfish behaviour at the old lady's bed (disinterest, impatience). She didn't need to steal anything because she wouldn't have starved to death. The context of this story makes this clear.
Another nurse (as I cast "Natalie" in my own sequel) is so free to react to the situation and Mrs. Ellerton in a completely different way. The class struggle and the revolution should not take place at the senior's bed. I believe that political thinking and action can be found precisely in such scenes. You see a Susie as a victim. But who wouldn't you want to sacrifice in this scene if you told the story differently? What would you do to let everyone win in this specific situation?
I don't think we disagree. I think you and I have the heart in the right place. ;-)
I think I have done bad to even misread thy reply @erh.germany. For methinks at first thou was talking of humanity fighting for a future but thou was sincerly talking about illegalism. So lemme take the courage to fix this error in both of our readings.
So lemme reconstitute my argument clearly:
- Within our World and the World of the Story, we find parallels to class struggles and class interests.
- Though the action is morally condemnable by assumed human coexistence. It is more condemnable that Susie is hurting the class interest of Mrs Ellerton because the boach could’ve helped the grand daughter.
- However Capitalism had forced her to compete within her class to survive.
C1. Her theft and stealing of the possession was necesitated for her to live another day.C2. We, as observers from far away, shouldn’t be surprised of the act though we can have our passions stirred by it.
C3. This action in no way implies radical emancipation of the Working Class, nor has my argument stated she’s a revolutionary. It is possible she could become one, but she is not one now and her consciousness is still plagued by individual survival in a system that benefits with her committing these actions. Or to say, she follows symptomatic behaviours and she has yet to realize such.
And for such I do apologize for not realizing and helping steer the argument back on course. Yet before we go and discuss things, we should make clear what we do say. Or forever we shall be blind that we never thought ourselves one-and-in-the-same and bickering about two different things when we both were talking of the same thing originally.