In Transition, by Angela Khristin Brown
The book, Confederate Dunces, is set in the 1950 and 1960 down south in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is written about a well-educated man, who experiences character flaws and deposition. He is having a distinct opaque view of the world. He uses philosophical ideology of the world that surrounds him where he negates society as surreal and out of touch with the rural south. How Ignatius character contradicts Louisiana now period was an era very unmundane and ethical. Ignatius in unemployed and lives with his mother. The life of the writer personality is reflected of the book. The author was reflective of old ways that interest that nurtures amongst us. John processed the artistic values of his culture. The author of the book committed suicide after several attempts of trying to get published. John Kennedy Toole won the Pulitzer prize for this book.
The story contradicts black and white or good over bad. The story reveals a character whose innocence struggles with the reality of who he is. One event after another is the controversy his character endures. An officer wants to confront him at a store suspicious about his appearance, he is thrown out a bar for his personality, he must pay a ticket for hitting a light post and he is too poor to pay it, he cannot find a job because he is too poor and uneducated, that leads him to the event of getting locked up in a mental institution for disobeying the social norm because he acted out of protocol and he broke a social norm. His character is a reflection on being treated like a minority who is poor from the ghetto and undergoes the same treatment a black person would. His amount of faith determines his decree of being a statistic in society. In the real world, you must learn to trust. It was when Ignacio’s learned to trust his character changed. He had to undergo a lot of suffering before he consoled mediation and a piece of mind which led to him finding his purpose in life was to write.
When I first listened to the complete story, I had not got the purpose clearly. After much thought, I realized that this story is much like my story for writing. There are consequences for our actions. It is from determining our purpose that we become passionate about our writing. I see this concept in this story. At first, I thought it was a story about young man becoming an adult. It is a story about a man's journey in finding his purpose in life. Sometimes finding a purpose may become a life time goal. Sometimes it takes time to find what we love at what we do our best at. Some people pursue a dream while others may never get this far as making their dream a reality. You have a since of unworthiness until your life changes because something meaningful happened to you that led you to pursue your interest. It was when Ignatius wanted to fight to have a memorial dedicated to his father that meant a lot to him. When he protests wrong for what he in his heart felt was right he found his purpose in life. He risked going to the mental home for fighting his belief. He found that he was good at writing. His writing was impressionable enough for people to resent it, resist it and deny that he could write at all and so he pursued it. He did not know where his knack of writing would take him, but it became something he was passionate about.
I relate this story has recreated my purpose in writing poetry. I found my voice in writing in hope my words would become a part of history. I want my poetry to connect cultural ideas to something that was unconscionable in a way it has never been thought of. I want people to feel the hurt, the pain, the regret, the hope and the forgiveness through my struggle. It is in my journey I found my purpose in writing poetry to use the gift God gave me to write. I discovered my talent as a poet from the feedback I got through family, friends and readers in the community of fellow poets. I devoted my life to writing what I believe in. Being a poet is something I feel passionate about doing. The reason for wanting to be a poet is when my teacher discovered I had the talent, I wanted to pursue interest in writing. I was sent to a psychiatrist because of my form of writing had talent and my craft of writing is unique. Schizophrenia became the reason for my journey for wanting to become a poet. I was called crazy for writing my form of telling stories, composing words in a poem. The doctor and professors and students thought I was delusional when I wrote essays and poems in class assignments.
The story contradicts black and white or good over bad. The story reveals a character whose innocence struggles with the reality of who he is. One event after another is the controversy his character endures. An officer wants to confront him at a store suspicious about his appearance, he is thrown out a bar for his personality, he must pay a ticket for hitting a light post and he is too poor to pay it, he cannot find a job because he is too poor and uneducated, that leads him to the event of getting locked up in a mental institution for disobeying the social norm because he acted out of protocol and he broke a social norm. His character is a reflection on being treated like a minority who is poor from the ghetto and undergoes the same treatment a black person would. His amount of faith determines his decree of being a statistic in society. In the real world, you must learn to trust. It was when Ignacio’s learned to trust his character changed. He had to undergo a lot of suffering before he consoled mediation and a piece of mind which led to him finding his purpose in life was to write.
The story contradicts black and white or good over bad. The story reveals a character whose innocence struggles with the reality of who he is. One event after another is the controversy his character endures. An officer wants to confront him at a store suspicious about his appearance, he is thrown out a bar for his personality, he must pay a ticket for hitting a light post and he is too poor to pay it, he cannot find a job because he is too poor and uneducated, that leads him to the event of getting locked up in a mental institution for disobeying the social norm because he acted out of protocol and he broke a social norm. His character is a reflection on being treated like a minority who is poor from the ghetto and undergoes the same treatment a black person would. His amount of faith determines his decree of being a statistic in society. In the real world, you must learn to trust. It was when Ignacio’s learned to trust his character changed. He had to undergo a lot of suffering before he consoled mediation and a piece of mind which led to him finding his purpose in life was to write.
The tone of the story is the attitude of the character. Ignacio’s thinks that he had been persecuted and was treated wrongly by what he has labeled them as hypocrites throughout the story. Sometimes we fall a victim of our own mind. Jesus had to undergo a lot of suffering before he died. Ignatius went through a lot of suffering from oppression, to the feeling of guilt, until he understood truth. It was when he questioned his own actions that he could empathize to discover the reasons behind actions and conflict result to reformation. His writing became the presumption of truth. It is where fighting for civil discourse transitions his character to become the hero of the story.
Toole would gravitate the meaning of the ideology that challenged his intellect. In his book, he relates to political and educational rivalry. His wisdom redefines the meaning of poverty in the south to the comfort of living in the reformed south as a period of redemption and modification of hope and charity. The confederate south is a romantic thrust full of cultural diversity and political liberty. The book is a transition from an ideology of southern culture and its influence to cultural tradition.