We Must Learn To Live Together As Brothers Analysis

Every human for himself. Since the beginning of time, the world has embodied the depravity of hatred and mistrust among humanity. Through time the world has witnessed uncountable wars resulting in death, and today is not at all an exception. The source of mankind’s everlasting self-destruction is, quite so, human characteristics such as mistrust, prejudices and bigotry, which appears as irredeemable traits that forever and always will haunt and ravage our global society. Consequently, a lot of people are narrow-minded and do not seem to understand that their actions only serve to breed mistrust that undermine themselves and their loved ones because as Martin Luther king Jr. famously said: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish
Naturally, the narration is therefore based on a restricted first-person narrator because we only experience his view on the world around him. Thoroughly, the narrator appears as an intrusive narrator whose thoughts are very abrasive towards the people around him and towards his family, which is indicated in the following quotation: “She’s a sassy bitch-girl and don’t take after her ma or me.” (ll. 37-38). Undoubtedly, his inflammatory language is repellent and the fact that he calls his own daughter a bitch is certainly beyond the pale. The narrator’s attitude to everyone around him is highly pessimistic, and according to the narrator no one is trustworthy, and you must watch out for yourself, which is indicated in the quotation on ll. 1-4, part 4. However, the narration is very unreliable and it stands as very biased and personal due to the use of subjective adjectives as the quotation above indicates. Linguistically, the narrator’s language proficiency is below standard which certainly increases the misconnection between the reader and the narrator. This point is for instance indicated in the following quotation: “We was in the forest”. In conclusion, the grammatical errors diminish the narrator’s ethos and the credibility of his controversial views of his own family and of other people. Indisputably, the narrow angle the reader is provided with emphasize how narrow-minded and
During the plot it becomes very clear that the protagonist cares more about his store than his family, which is indicated in the quotation above and in the following quotation:” and your own flesh and blood, will try to run over you”. Unequivocally, he is full of mistrust towards mankind in general and only believes in his store. Moreover, he also expresses that he would sell his house should his family leave him. Simply, the protagonist is everything a frontiersman should be and he epitomizes the American values, but it is ironically evident that the individualistic pursuit of his own American Dream only constitutes to the basis of an incoherent and self-destructive society where everyone does what benefits them the most without adhering to authority. Undoubtedly, that would be a society gone off the rails due to self-absorbed traits that are passed down to the children. Consequently, the pursuit of your own American Dream and your own desires at the expense of moral awareness is not the ideal value, but being kind to those surrounding you are equally vital