Analysis the Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket - 584 Words

ANALYSIS THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE BELL CRICKET BY: YASUNARI KAWABATA †The grasshopper and the bell cricket† is a short story, written by Yasunari Kawabata, written in a narrative perspective of someone watching children searching for insects using colored and decorated lanterns. I would like to think that the author is trying to symbolize life, and that it is not only one path to go. We are all aiming for acceptance and to fit in to the society, but this story tells us that The author, who put himself as narrator, describes how he walks through the halls of the university and approaches the upper school and its playground, and he seems to get so emotionally attached that he cannot take another turn. â€Å"I turned right so as not to†¦show more content†¦Even the narrator comments â€Å"I felt slightly jealous of the boy, and sheepish†. When the boy gives away the grasshopper to a girl, who was one of many who wanted it, the girl shouted out â€Å"Oh! It’s not a grasshopper. It’s a bell cricket.† I read an analysis on this short story on a blog, called â€Å"Generation†, and I agree with his thoughts behind the symbolism of the transformation of the bell cricket from the boy to the girl, he states that it could be translated into the development of love and how, as rare as it is in the wild, one can captivate with a simple giving gesture. The narrator goes on to explain the rarity of such a find; â€Å"even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world.† I agree on the romantic messages behind this story, but I would also like to think that it describes, as I mentioned in the beginning of the analysis, life in general with the hunting of acceptation, that it is not only one way to go. It does not matter what color or decorations your lantern is, a multi colored is just as beautiful. -------------------------------------------- [ 1 ]. †The grasshopper and the Bell Cricket†, http://generationswine-gwarr.blogspot.fr/2010/05/grasshopper-and-bell-cricket.html,Show MoreRelatedLiterary Analysis of â€Å"The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket† by Yasunari Kawabata886 Words   |  4 PagesThe story â€Å"The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket†, written by Yasunari Kawabata, is a children’s fiction story that is written in a third person narrative point of view. The author, who sets himself as the narrator, is describing what he sees as he stumbles upon a group of young, neighborhood kids as they frolic along the bank of a stream near dusk time. He points out the extreme care that the children take in creating their lanterns, and he sees the passion and enthusiasm they have while apparentlyRead MoreYolo1583 Words   |  7 Pagesrelated to underlying cultural values. 4,8 Identify the emotions they experience and reasons for those emotions associated with different characters or text wo rlds. Manifest cultural Week 5-6 Japan : Swaddling Clothes- Yukio Mishima The Grasshopper and the Bell Crickets - Yanusari Kawabata Bring pictures of babies with different facial expressions and attires. Create a story of what a child would become when he grows up. Make a landscape of the images in the story. Draw images shown in the story. HomeworkRead MoreIgbo Dictionary129408 Words   |  518 Pagespalatalized consonant. It is not, however, a conclusive argument against the /b/ plus /y/ interpretation, for it can be argued that only the first consonant of a cluster is reduplicated. 3. The palatalized consonant solution draws a parallel with the analysis of kw, gw, etc., as single labialized consonants. But their behaviour is not parallel; thus á »â€¹kwà   (to push) has the imperative kwà  a (and not *kà ¹Ã¯â‚¬ ¨a) and the gerund à ²Ã¯â‚¬ ¤kwà ¹Ã¯â‚¬ ¨kwà   (and not *à ²Ã¯â‚¬ ¤kà ¹Ã¯â‚¬ ¨kwà  ). Again, this is not an argument against the cluster interpretation