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Five Years from Now
Introduction
Is it possible that the literature like "And of clay we are created" and "The Streetcar named desire" can be deemed worthy enough to be included in the curriculum five years from now? Yes. The significance of these pieces must be recognized to fulfill the basic purpose of literature that ensures preserving. "And of Clay, We are Created" is a short story by Isabel Allende while "The streetcar named desire" is a play written by the renowned author Tennessee Williams. The essay provides reasons why these pieces should be considered a part of the syllabus five years from now. Discussion
The most important reason why "And of Clay, We are Created' should be included in curriculum in five years from now is because it illustrates the real events of the 1985 earthquake in Colombia that featured Azucena (Omayra Sanchez) as a victim. It is one of the stories from the collection of the stories depicting the life of Eva Luna who was also the narrator of the story. The main character of the story, ‘Rolf Carle” is a lover of Eva Luna. Throughout the story, he remains by Azucena’s Side. Allende tries to illustrate the notion of self-discovery through love by making use of delicate images and plotlines. The story starts with, “They discovered the girl’s head protruding from the mud pit, eyes wide open, calling soundlessly,” ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"y8NYPQ4p","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Allende)","plainCitation":"(Allende)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":347,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/3N9FC3IT"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/3N9FC3IT"],"itemData":{"id":347,"type":"book","title":"The Stories of Eva Luna","publisher":"Simon and Schuster","number-of-pages":"360","source":"Google Books","abstract":"Isabel Allende now ranks as one of the world's most beloved authors. In 1988, she introduced the world to Eva Luna, in a novel of the same name that recounted the adventurous life of a poor young Latin American woman who finds friendship, love, and some measure of worldly success through her powers as a storyteller. Her most ambitious novel up to that time, \"Eva Luna\" was described by the \"Washington Post\" as \"a cascade of stories [that] tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid, passionate and human.\" Returning to this tale by popular demand, Allende unveiled \"The Stories of Eva Luna\" in 1991. A treasure trove of brilliantly crafted tales, the book showed us once again why \"Eva Luna\" and her much-celebrated creator have won such a large and devoted readership.We begin with Rolf Carle, the European refugee, journalist, and lover who figured so largely in \"Eva Luna.\" Lying in bed with Eva Luna, he asks her to tell him a story. \"What about?\" she asks. \"Tell me a story you have never told anyone before. Make it up for me.\" And so she does, giving Rolf Carle and the reader twenty-three vibrant, enchanting demonstrations of her artistry. Here are \"compesinos\" and rich people, guerrillas and fortune-tellers, great beauties and tyrants, the foreign rendered indelibly familiar. Here is Clarisa, \"born before the city had electricity, she lived to see television coverage of the first astronaut levitating on the moon, and she died of amazement when the Pope came for a visit and was met in the street by homosexuals dressed up as nuns\"; here is El Capitan, who waited for forty years before proposing to his dancing partner; Horacio Fortunato, a circus owner and entrepreneur, whose encounterwith a languid foreign woman will force him to change his roguish ways even as he attempts to court her; Maurizia Rugieri, who abandons her husband and child for a young medical student, converting their life together into an opera of her own design; Nicholas Vidal, who \"had always known that a woman would cost him his life\" but never suspected that it would be the wife of Judge Hidalgo; Raid Halbi, once again displaying his concern and wisdom for the people of Agua Santa; Marcia Liberman, the wife of a European diplomat, whose brief affair with the President for Life of an unnamed Latin American country has startling rewards...Love, vengeance, nostalgia, compassion, irony -- Isabel Allende leaves no emotion untouched in these stories. Opulently imagined, stirringly told, they confirm her place as one of the world's leading writers.","ISBN":"978-0-684-87359-6","note":"Google-Books-ID: VtsL4KtmYykC","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Allende","given":"Isabel"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1999"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Allende) which not only gathers the audience's attention by dramatic appeal but also contributes towards establishing the theme of sight. While reading the plotline, the reader can feel the agony and fear that surrounds the whole story. The author herself has highlighted the importance of the novel in an interview with Marilyn Berlin Shell saying, “The face of Omayra Sánchez, one of the thousands of victims of Colombia's Nevado Ruiz volcanic eruption. The black eyes of that girl have haunted me. . . . She is telling me something. She is talking to me about patience, about endurance, about courage” ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"RNXpgyVY","properties":{"formattedCitation":"({\\i{}And of Clay Are We Created})","plainCitation":"(And of Clay Are We Created)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":353,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/XEGQF6JG"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/XEGQF6JG"],"itemData":{"id":353,"type":"webpage","title":"And of Clay Are We Created","abstract":"And of Clay Are We Created<BR><BR> Unlike many novelists, Isabel Allende did not train as a fiction writer by creating short stories before moving on to nove","URL":"https://academiclibrary.com/paper/8W5bYG9K","language":"en-us","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",11,26]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (And of Clay Are We Created) which demonstrates the impact the events have left on the Author. Allende has done a great job in the adaption of historical events into a fiction novel which makes it worthy of appreciation.
The reason why “The Streetcar named desire” should be made part of the curriculum five years from now is because it hits a chord with the society. A play is not just a source of entertainment, but it also incorporates various social conflicts that make it deeply relevant and useful. The author William has tried to convey it in a way that it touches the heart of the audience. Social conflicts depicted in the play are mainly the conflicts that arise due to society's different perception of a person's reality. Stanley along with other characters was under the impression that the Blanche outward appearance is a actually a fake mask which she wears to protect herself ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"lhs3qmtR","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Williams)","plainCitation":"(Williams)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":349,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/WX68EPS8"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/WX68EPS8"],"itemData":{"id":349,"type":"book","title":"A Streetcar Named Desire","publisher":"Amereon Limited","number-of-pages":"book","source":"Google Books","abstract":"The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.","ISBN":"978-0-8488-2699-4","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Williams","given":"Tennessee"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2004"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Williams). He seems to attack her faintest link: reality to expose her to the outside world. It also demonstrates the impact of conflict between a person's reality and fantasy. In the plot, Blanche seems to be delusional because she refuses to accept her reality ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"1ase3aB4","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Williams)","plainCitation":"(Williams)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":349,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/WX68EPS8"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/WX68EPS8"],"itemData":{"id":349,"type":"book","title":"A Streetcar Named Desire","publisher":"Amereon Limited","number-of-pages":"book","source":"Google Books","abstract":"The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.","ISBN":"978-0-8488-2699-4","language":"en","author":[{"family":"Williams","given":"Tennessee"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2004"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Williams). By hiding her traumatic past, she seeks a genuine social and emotional acceptance. “Both Blanche’s drinking and her endless hot baths suggest that she is attempting to wash away her past and emerge through a sort of watery purgatory” ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"emkCBfga","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(\\uc0\\u8220{}A Streetcar Named Desire\\uc0\\u8221{})","plainCitation":"(“A Streetcar Named Desire”)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":351,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/UQAC5WPW"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/CKNkWnK9/items/UQAC5WPW"],"itemData":{"id":351,"type":"webpage","title":"A Streetcar Named Desire: Social Conflict Analysis","container-title":"Owlcation","abstract":"Character, thematic, and social analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams. This play has several intriguing themes, which I will discuss. Thank you for reading!","URL":"https://owlcation.com/humanities/A-Streetcar-Named-Desire-by-Tennessee-Williams","title-short":"A Streetcar Named Desire","language":"en","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",11,26]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (“A Streetcar Named Desire”). Moreover, the play tries to demonstrate the fact that is in favor of individualism by refusing to accept women's victimization. The society wanted Blanche and women like her to submit to men but she refused.
Conclusion
Both of these literary pieces have a different reason why they should be deemed worthy of incorporation into the curriculum 5 years for now. Although "And of Clay, we are created" is a piece of fiction but it is based on the real-life events of the 1985 volcanic eruption in Columbia which gives the message of self-acceptance through love which is needed in this society. “The Streetcar named desire” is a significant piece that addresses the major conflicts and issues faced by society and a person and are not taken under consideration.
Works Cited
ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY “A Streetcar Named Desire: Social Conflict Analysis.” Owlcation, https://owlcation.com/humanities/A-Streetcar-Named-Desire-by-Tennessee-Williams. Accessed 26 Nov. 2019.
Allende, Isabel. The Stories of Eva Luna. Simon and Schuster, 1999.
And of Clay Are We Created. https://academiclibrary.com/paper/8W5bYG9K. Accessed 26 Nov. 2019.
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. Amereon Limited, 2004.
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