Sam Hamill's 'The Necessity To Speak'

Everyday in the world today, people’s lack of speech leads to uncontrollable violence. Sam Hamill is a poetic writer who wrote to inform people about the violence that the lack of speech initiates. In the short story “The Necessity to Speak” Hamill argues that one’s minimal amount to speak influences violence. Raymond Carver is a poetic and short story author who writes about the abuse within a home. In addition, in Carver’s short story, “So Much Water So Close to Home” the story is about the inability of a women to talk about her personal life situation outside of her home, in which leads to the cruelty of assault in the household. Therefore, Hamill’s theory of the necessity of speak is illustrated in Carver’s example of domestic violence.