Chattahoochee River
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Chapter 5- The Bell
Everyday at school we hear the bell ordering us to class and dismissing us from class. And even though we hear it everyday we don't hate it, and to us it's nothing but a simple reminder to stay on schedule. So when I first read that the narrator hated the bell I didnt really understand why. I questioned how could you have such an emotion towards a simple bell that just reminds you to stay on schedule. And then I thought for a second and realized that I too had such hate for a reminder, my alarm clock. However my alarm doesn't signal me to get up and do hard labor, or to come to a small dinner, and it definitely doesn't signal me the hours of a selection period that could potentially be the last minutes of my life. So then I realized that the bell was much more than a reminder to him, the bell controlled everything about his life and eventhough the bell never harmed anyone, it was a reminder that he was still being controlled.
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It is amazing that something so simple as a bell could arise such anger in someone. I agree that his hatred toward the bell is a reflection of his hatred for the control that it symbolizes, and this was a good connection.
ReplyDeleteThat's very insightful. Some parts of our seemingly monotonous days are sometimes taken for granted. We can choose to ignore the bell that summons us and live with the consequences. If they ignored the bell the consequences could be death.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when you say that the bell reminds him that all of the aspects of his life are being controlled. I didn't pick up the significant of the bell right away, but it's a constant reminder that everyone in the camp is under the control of a bell from theirs oppressors design.
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