In the Flight author Steinbeck uses Naturalism
in his story. Naturalism is the
theory that there
are greater forces that control our lives.
In the Flight, a boy named Pepe
kills a man and
is forced to leave his home and go out on his own. In his adventure he
encounters many
difficulties and he counters it with his actions. One of his difficulties
was his new
environment and one of his counters was his religion.
After Pepe left his home, his sister already knew
his fate. She already knew he
was going to die
even before it happen. As soon as his
adventure began things started
going against
him. It was a continues string of bad luck or naturalism for Pepe. His
horse gets hot
which destroys his transportation. He
gets shot then a rock perices through
his hand. His arm becomes swollen and he has awful
pain. From the wound in his hand
he has poison in
his blood stream. He has nowhere to run
or hide. He has no protection
since he lost his
knife and rifle. Here stands a stranded, injured "boy" that has no
protection or
transportation. This is when his animal
instinct begins. When a human he
has the talent
of having the art of reason. An animal does things sometimes without
even knowing
it. Who in their right mind would put a
spider web in their wound. When
he relizes that
his time of running has come to an end he begins to turn to his religion.
He starts to
"cross" his chest as a Roman
Catholic would. Then his time comes and
he
pretty much
commits suicide.
When Pepe leaves his home his sister has
already predicted his fate and everyone
knew what was
going to happen to him. It is was his
environment that killed him. Pepe
adventure begins
because of a death and his adventure ends with a death of him.
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