Monday, September 10, 2007
The Immortals
I agree with the previos post about this story being very depressing. There's a man that walks around this world before everything has been created and at the end of life this man will still be here; alone. "The Immortals" is a tale about one man trying to find things to so while being on earth. I believe that he doesn't know how he was created when he says, "I was born, or I appeared or materialized or beamed down...I think I must have been a dud god or something" (25). He becomes utterly bored with his life and the life of mortals that he starts to make himself a guinea pig to his own experiments. He stays awake for seven years, he sleeps for ten years, and he picked he nose for eighteen months. Before I read the assignment I first figured it was about a family that could live forever and only because the title specifies "Immortals" meaning more then one. I wonder if later on in this book there are more Immortals; more like him. After a while you start to notice that he's extremely lonely which cause him to be depressed, selfish, and cynical at times. One of the examples for this is when he says, "In fact I had recently emerged from a five-year hangover and, for me, the furture looked bright." At the end of the story, he doesn't want to live anymore. He wants there to be an end for him like there's an end for everybody else. In that sense he is mortal. We as humans and mortals need to feel, to touch, and hear another human life. It's our need to be wanted, to be loved, and that's what makes him mortal even though he doesn't realize it. All he knows is that he's going to live forever and alone. This story is sad and it makes me wonder why there are people here on earth, right now, that do want to live forever. Death is the end and the beginning of life. How else would we find peace? The Immortal can't find that and that's sad and depressing.
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