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The Setting Sun and The Rolling World Analysis

Echo

R.I.P 2 My Youth by The Neighbourhood

Significance of Title

This song illustrates the struggles one can have as a youth, much as the story does. It also symobolizes growing up, as does the story with the son's choice to leave.

The Setting Sun and the Rolling World's title fits the theme of love quite effectively. With the words 'Rolling World', it depicts how the father must be feeling knowing that his son is leaving him. When a loved one leaves it can often feel that your world is rolling.

Point of View

By: Jonathan Poskus

The point of view of the story is third person limited. This point of view helps truly portray the feelings of both the son and the father to truly get the theme of love across. If the story was from a first person point of view, the emotions of both the father and the son would not have been apparent. If the story was from a different variation of the third person point of view, too much or too little emotions might have come across from both characters.

Conflicts

The conflict of the story is external. It is the son leaving his home. The conflict is between the son and his father. The son is insistent on leaving, but his father does not want him to go. They argue for a little while, each wanting the other to concede. At the end of their conversation, the father gives his son his blessing to leave.

Characters

The protagonist is the father. He is a simple farmer that loves his son and seems to be quite a fearful man. As a simple man, he does not believe there is a good life for his son out in the world. He also loves his son very much, he does not want to see his son fail. Much fear is seen in the father when his son wishes to leave.

Theme

Love

The theme of love is seen quite evidently throughout the course of the story. The reason that the father, the protagonist, does not want to see his son leave is because he loves his son. A metaphor is used to show the father’s worry for his son, “Lions had long since vanished but he knew of worse animals of prey, animals that wore redder claws than the lion’s, beasts that would not leave an unprotected homeless boy alone.” (Mungoshi, 1) The author also uses characterization to show that the father is a simple farmer that loves his family, and therefore his son.

Plot

The plot structure seems to be fairly standard in this story. It begins with an exposition, the establishment of the farm setting. The rising action is the conversation that the father and his son have. The climax is when the father tells his son he is fine with him leaving. The falling action is all the events between the end of the conversation and the son leaving. The resolution consists of the son leaving.

Summary

The son of an old farmer decides to pack up and leave home, attempting to find a better life elsewhere. The father tries to convince his son to stay, as he has been doing for two months, but eventually gives up and lets his son go. The father believes that his son will become a poor, homeless man. We do not get to see if he is correct.

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