"Now it was dark again
And there was papa
And there was me.
"I'm Not Scared" is essentially about a child's loss of innocence.
Discuss.
Niccolo Ammaniti's novel "I'm Not Scared" is primarily a "coming of age story".We're confronted with an epigraph by Jack London. "That much he knew. He had fallen into darkness. And at the instant he knew, he ceases to know". The epigraph foreshadows a loss of innocence and discovery of truth. Michele a nine-year old boy who discovers a dark secret in a hole can't comprehend it. Michele's innocence is betrayed by his hero, his father Pino. His father doesn't protect Michele's innocence when he and the other adults of Aqua-Teverse kidnapped the boy in the hole Filippo. Michele is bombarded with many moral dilemmas that lead up to the most serious moral dilemma which saves Filippo's life and Michele's.The choices Michele makes accelerates his maturity and his interpretations. He enters a new world of which he can apprehend the real evil and cruelty.
"I'm Not Scared" commences with an epigraph by Jack London. It reads: "That much he knew. He fallen into darkness. And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know." This quote indicates a journey of discovery and a new understanding of the world. Michele doesn't apprehend true evil until that day he comes across genuine wickedness. When he is exposed to the real world he regrets knowing. "He fallen into darkness" has a double meaning; he had unintentionally fallen into the darkness of a hole and he had uncovered true evil and wickedness.This ordeal that has been inflicted on Michele before he has matured and evolved to understand true evil in the world, his life has been affected forever.
Michele is a young naive nine-year old boy who discovers a dark secret in a hole next to the abandoned farm house. His curiosity brings him to uncover a boy in a hole, Michele is horrified and he runs away, gets on his bike and goes home. This unearthed his childish interpretations and naivety, Michele's initial thought, was that the boy was being kept a prisoner "If he had been caught by an ogre?". When Michele's curiosity brings him back to the hole his naivety of the real danger is being caught by an "Ogre" "What if I arrived and found witches and ogres there?" illustrated that Michele was scared of "Ogres","Monsters" and "Witches". Michele's imagination illuminates his innocence and interpretation of the real world. The first theory of the kidnapping was that the boy was a werewolf, chained up to protect the people of Aqua-Teverse. "At night he became a werewolf", these interpretations show the fear of fantasy. When Michele asks his father Pino about "Monsters" his father replies "Stop all this talk about Monsters, Michele.Monsters don't exist...when I had asked him if monsters could breathe underwater". This is evidence and an insight about a nine-year old show us what he is scared of .After revisiting he comes across the unique apple printed saucepan left at the abandoned farm house "I found it strange that was the same as ours." this linked the boy to Michele personally and when he eventually found out that they were same age and same height. He thought it was his crazy twin brother "He's crazy!He's crazy! Pino take him away!" Michele could only comprehend that his parent were protecting him and his sister. As time past he could finally collect some other type of evidence that his parents and the other adult of Aqua-Teverse were behind the boy being kept hostage in a inhumane way, finally reality hits him literally when he gets caught by Felice and Pino extracts an oath not to revisit and threatens to give him the "trashing of his life"towards the end of the novel.He eventually learns that "Monsters, "Ogres" and "Witches don't exist, it's people like his father that are "Monsters". "It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters". His father said to Michele which is ironic.
Pino Amitrano father to Michele and Maria. Husband to Teresa. Pino was a small man, thin and restless. Pino was a truck driver, he would collect the goods and carried them to the North of Italy. He had black hair, smoothed down with brilliantine and a rough white beard on his chin. When Pino arrived home from the North his greed and jealously possessed him. This is evident when he brings a precious ornament of a Gondola which were novelties of rich nothern people, to Pino is represents his desire to live a rich and materialistic life for himself and his family.This was reason why Pino carried out the crime "Let's go to the north, We'll go there" Pino was determined by poverty "Stick the glasses together with scotch tape". In the process Pino didn't protect Michele's and Maria's innocence he held a child hostage and lost his Michele's admiration for his father, his hero instead looks for courage from a fictional cartoon hero Tiger Jack.Pino was evil and feared by Michele "Papa was the bogeyman". Instead of protecting his child Michele from Sergio a criminal made him share a room with him "He had done a long stretch in prison". At the start of the novel were introduced to a boy with adores his father but because of the kidnapping loses his respect by not keeping his fathers oath instead keeping a promise for a friend. .At one point Pino tells Michele "It's men you should be afraid of".This statement is ironic coming from Pino Michele's father,this is wise advice to Michele but he learns its the hard way. Its his father who is the 'Monster' that kidnapped Filippo and was prepared to murder Filippo. Michele should be scared of his father.
Michele is bombarded with many moral dilemmas that lead up to the most serious moral dilemma which saves Filippo's life and Michele's.The choices Michele makes accelerates his maturity and his interpretations. The novel opens with the scene in which Michele contemplates between winning a race or helping his sister Maria. Michele choices to help his sister, this moment foreshadows the choices Michele must face. When Michele is confronted with Barbara pulling down her pants as a forfeit. Only Michele stands up for Barbara and tells Skull its not right. "Wait! I came last: I heard my voice saying". This reveals to the reader that Michele is brave, compassionate and has self-respect. Michele is also very caring and protective of his sister " I didn't like my sister being there". That later ascend to sacrificing himself and his own safety for Fillipo and breaking his oath to his father "I was breaking the oath".The choices Michele makes accelerates his maturity and his interpretations.which saved Filippo's life and Michele's. Michele has proven to stick up for his friends like Barbara and Filippo, Michele listens to his conscience and he is morally right. "Now it was dark again.And there was papa".Shows the difference between his father's bad and poor choices "And there was me".Michele's right and compassionate choices.
"I'm Not Scared" By Niccolo Ammaniti confronted the issue of loss of innocence, Michele loses his innocence at a young age his understanding and interpretations develop because of a traumatic experience. His father didn't protect him and so didn't the isolation of Aqua-Teverse. The choices Michele makes are morally right which saved Filippo and essentially Michele from mental distress and regret of letting his friend get shoot by his father. Michele is only the compassionate character. We can be satisfied that they're safe and well with the digresses and the reflection written in the book.
By Efecan Yucedag
Michele is a young naive nine-year old boy who discovers a dark secret in a hole next to the abandoned farm house. His curiosity brings him to uncover a boy in a hole, Michele is horrified and he runs away, gets on his bike and goes home. This unearthed his childish interpretations and naivety, Michele's initial thought, was that the boy was being kept a prisoner "If he had been caught by an ogre?". When Michele's curiosity brings him back to the hole his naivety of the real danger is being caught by an "Ogre" "What if I arrived and found witches and ogres there?" illustrated that Michele was scared of "Ogres","Monsters" and "Witches". Michele's imagination illuminates his innocence and interpretation of the real world. The first theory of the kidnapping was that the boy was a werewolf, chained up to protect the people of Aqua-Teverse. "At night he became a werewolf", these interpretations show the fear of fantasy. When Michele asks his father Pino about "Monsters" his father replies "Stop all this talk about Monsters, Michele.Monsters don't exist...when I had asked him if monsters could breathe underwater". This is evidence and an insight about a nine-year old show us what he is scared of .After revisiting he comes across the unique apple printed saucepan left at the abandoned farm house "I found it strange that was the same as ours." this linked the boy to Michele personally and when he eventually found out that they were same age and same height. He thought it was his crazy twin brother "He's crazy!He's crazy! Pino take him away!" Michele could only comprehend that his parent were protecting him and his sister. As time past he could finally collect some other type of evidence that his parents and the other adult of Aqua-Teverse were behind the boy being kept hostage in a inhumane way, finally reality hits him literally when he gets caught by Felice and Pino extracts an oath not to revisit and threatens to give him the "trashing of his life"towards the end of the novel.He eventually learns that "Monsters, "Ogres" and "Witches don't exist, it's people like his father that are "Monsters". "It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters". His father said to Michele which is ironic.
Pino Amitrano father to Michele and Maria. Husband to Teresa. Pino was a small man, thin and restless. Pino was a truck driver, he would collect the goods and carried them to the North of Italy. He had black hair, smoothed down with brilliantine and a rough white beard on his chin. When Pino arrived home from the North his greed and jealously possessed him. This is evident when he brings a precious ornament of a Gondola which were novelties of rich nothern people, to Pino is represents his desire to live a rich and materialistic life for himself and his family.This was reason why Pino carried out the crime "Let's go to the north, We'll go there" Pino was determined by poverty "Stick the glasses together with scotch tape". In the process Pino didn't protect Michele's and Maria's innocence he held a child hostage and lost his Michele's admiration for his father, his hero instead looks for courage from a fictional cartoon hero Tiger Jack.Pino was evil and feared by Michele "Papa was the bogeyman". Instead of protecting his child Michele from Sergio a criminal made him share a room with him "He had done a long stretch in prison". At the start of the novel were introduced to a boy with adores his father but because of the kidnapping loses his respect by not keeping his fathers oath instead keeping a promise for a friend. .At one point Pino tells Michele "It's men you should be afraid of".This statement is ironic coming from Pino Michele's father,this is wise advice to Michele but he learns its the hard way. Its his father who is the 'Monster' that kidnapped Filippo and was prepared to murder Filippo. Michele should be scared of his father.
Michele is bombarded with many moral dilemmas that lead up to the most serious moral dilemma which saves Filippo's life and Michele's.The choices Michele makes accelerates his maturity and his interpretations. The novel opens with the scene in which Michele contemplates between winning a race or helping his sister Maria. Michele choices to help his sister, this moment foreshadows the choices Michele must face. When Michele is confronted with Barbara pulling down her pants as a forfeit. Only Michele stands up for Barbara and tells Skull its not right. "Wait! I came last: I heard my voice saying". This reveals to the reader that Michele is brave, compassionate and has self-respect. Michele is also very caring and protective of his sister " I didn't like my sister being there". That later ascend to sacrificing himself and his own safety for Fillipo and breaking his oath to his father "I was breaking the oath".The choices Michele makes accelerates his maturity and his interpretations.which saved Filippo's life and Michele's. Michele has proven to stick up for his friends like Barbara and Filippo, Michele listens to his conscience and he is morally right. "Now it was dark again.And there was papa".Shows the difference between his father's bad and poor choices "And there was me".Michele's right and compassionate choices.
"I'm Not Scared" By Niccolo Ammaniti confronted the issue of loss of innocence, Michele loses his innocence at a young age his understanding and interpretations develop because of a traumatic experience. His father didn't protect him and so didn't the isolation of Aqua-Teverse. The choices Michele makes are morally right which saved Filippo and essentially Michele from mental distress and regret of letting his friend get shoot by his father. Michele is only the compassionate character. We can be satisfied that they're safe and well with the digresses and the reflection written in the book.
By Efecan Yucedag
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ReplyDeleteGood job,Lesley!Must say,it always interesting to read your posts,you are good writer!Keep working,me and my colleagues from Evolution Writers wish you luck!
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