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A wall of fire rising; this title can be derived from the play the young guy is taking part in their school. Its brief tale majorly revolves around the three-person family: the guy, Lili, and their seven-year-old son. It talks about a man who has high hopes that one time they will ride out of their current situation of extreme need and low living standards in Haiti. The guy manages to secure a job in a sugar mill, the little guy is in school, and Lili, the wife, does not work and stays home.
There are three main themes from this short story: poverty, the guy wants his son to a memory of him not just as a popper, they reside in a small, poor town known as the shantytown. Then parenthood is seen where the guy allows the little guy to have his way. He seeks a sugar mill job to provide for his family (Zhang, Xiaolei, et al., 234). Lastly, the pain of being locked out. The guy is excluded from Lili’s attention by the little guy, and then poverty has kept him a bay from his dreams.
The guy’s struggle with the little guy for Lili’s attention is first noted where the guy comes back excited with good news and wants to tell Lili but hardly had he start when the little guy gives his news boastfully that he is now in the school play and as such Lili had to pamper him with some sweet words of encouragement. When the guy sits on the grass and wants to talk to Lili again, the little guy comes in and wants to play a game with his dad, the hide and seek game .as such, again, the guy can’t talk to Lili. The guy is forced to postpone his news until bedtime hours so he can share with Lili. The following evening when the guy is from work and probably wants to rest little guy comes in with the lines he had memorized from the play and wants the guy to listen to it.
The conflict between poverty and the guy’s family is apparent where the guy admits that his father was unable to provide for his family. He says that he never wished to emulate his dad, a destitute, struggling man all his life [75]. The family eats a skimpy evening meal before they all proceed to have some enjoyment in the sugar mill where the government had installed a television for the shantytown dwellers. Due to this struggle with poverty, they hardly could afford their own television. The guy plans to commit suicide using the hot air balloon as he tells Lili that she’ll take good care of the little guy.
There is a struggle between Lili and the guy, where the guy wants to put the little guy’s name on the list for permanent employment when he grows up (Yao, Yongzheng, et al., 32). Lili strongly refutes that idea and clarifies that she doesn’t want to limit the little guy. Lili is anxious about the guy’s captivation with the hot air balloon, but she tries to hide; it does not want to ask him.
In the end, the guy cannot change his current situation of poverty; he tries to secure employment but does not get a permanent job. He cannot provide for his family, so he resorts to committing suicide .he jumps from the hot air balloon in the sky onto the ground. When he is checked for a pulse, he is dead.
Work Cited
Yao, Yongzheng, et al. “Maximum smoke temperature beneath the ceiling in an enclosed channel with different fire locations.” Applied Thermal Engineering 111 (2017): 30-38.
Zhang, Xiaolei, et al. “Experimental study and analysis on flame lengths induced by wall-attached fire impinging upon an inclined ceiling.” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 37.3 (2019): 3879-3887.