'Analysis and interpretation of ”Elephant”\r'

'When all hopes and dreams be abandoned from our harps, the only thing we can do is taking advantage of others lives and gain ground it our own. A disembodied spirit well planned can cost us our freedom and our ability to make decisions which are radically different from our previous ones. When desire, lust and womanize save been deselected and ”the normal life” has taken its place. These obstacles are what William meets and before confronts in the short taradiddle by Polly Clark called ”Elephant”. The story begins in media res, so as soon as the story begins we get engulfed.\r\nWe are meeting William posing at his desk surrounded by notes and facts, where his Muse has left all overturn him and he has trouble finding inspiration create verbally biographies of pop singers as Christine, who he finds most endearing and attracted to (l. 46 †51). The character Christine can be construe as Christina Aguilera, who, with her voice and her sexual beh aviour, usually is rattling appealing for average men. William is the typical American man, who has colonised down with his wife and currently is trying to give expressive style a family.\r\nTheir marriage is not filled with romance and love as one could expect, besides more with expectations and compromises and it furthermore seems like William does not want a baby as much as his wife does. His mind is filled with thoughts of his biographies and how Christine must have valued him to write virtually her (l. 71-72 and 76). He easy gets put off from his thoughts and one could imagine that they are filled with his disordered childhood and the things he had n constantly been able to do in life. His flash-back to the moment when his overprotect gives him the blue elephant (l. 9-66) could easily be interpreted as the childhood his mother tries to give him. However, at first he could not remember the blue elephant from his childhood. It had evaporateed from his memory. The on ly thoughts that go with with(predicate) his mind are how he can punish his lost childhood and regain consciousness of his identity. The teller tells us at line 21-22: ”William would have preferable the film stars ( anthropoid, golden age of cinema) exactly those had been claimed by soul quicker of the mark …”.\r\nThis specific release shows that William was needed to give up his dream because someone got in his way. By writing somewhat male actors it would have been possible for him to get famous and his life would thereby be complete. Happiness and celebrity goes hand in hand in his mind, but ever since he had to choose another career, his dreams fell apart and he was, in his own eyes, nothing but an ordinary man. That is why he is writing about the female pop singers so in that way he partly can fulfil his dreams through the women.\r\nNevertheless, this solution does not satisfy his desires, since he cannot stir to these women. He can relate to the m ale actors because of their sex, but the difference between men and women in this background becomes a huge factor for him and that gives him reason to salmagundi the stories about the women. Christine gives him trouble because of her pure mind collectible to her relationship with Christianity (l. 49), and his urge to make her life as miserable as his becomes even stronger. Therefore he synchronizes his life with hers and mixes the blue elephant into her childhood.\r\nFor him the elephant is a symbol of grief and grief and therefore he tries even harder to make the life of Christine miserable in the eyes of the readers. As he says at line 146-147: ”He cute to give Christine something she had neer had, something primary(prenominal) of himself. ” †the aspects of life he wants to give Christine are defeat and loss because she, to him, never have had a change to experience it in her famous Christian life. But because the negative symbol of the elephant only exis ts for him, his made up story about the life of Christine does not become a liberal experience for the readers.\r\nHis attempt to make Christine a injurious person is not successful (l. 135-142). That is when he realizes that his craft is not what he wants to do. The name Christine has not been chosen by coincidence and it was solely that choice of name, which gave Christine big businessman over him. The relationship Christine has with God has been transferred to William and through it he is able to confront his obstacles and by typing the falseness about her he learns that, that is not the person he wants to be, and by this realization he becomes complete.\r\nEven though he knows that someday he is going to be ”vanished from the face of the earth” (l. 148), he feels ready to get under ones skin living his life again, because he finally has triumphed over his lost childhood and he definitively has found himself. His exist falsity gives him the strength to stop te lling lies about others, stop living trough others and gives him power to live his own life (l. 142-144). Therefore, the truth is the main motive of this text.\r\nAs a subcategory comes the blue elephant being a symbol of how important the childhood is for humans. If the blue elephant vanish from the life of a child, pain and regret lead come later. Therefore, the story is a form of a aide-memoire in life to parents to teach them how to burn down their children. Polly Clark has written this text to tell us how important it is to keep believing in something that helps us confirm our dreams in life pure.\r\n'