Yellow By Peter Carty Analysis

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"Yellow" By Peter Carty Suicide is unfortunately a very normal thing and it's usually caused by emotional and physical problems. Some people think they are alone and one on will even notice that they are gone. These problems can for some people be so hard to overcome, and sometime the easiest solution is to take your own life. In Yellow, the main character is a man named Jon. Jon is in the late thirties (" for someone pushing the forty") which is in a good physical condition, but still overweight. Jon seems to be having a lot of problems. He has problems with his girlfriend and he also seems to be having a problem with the bottle. "He poured more gin, but no matter how much he swallowed it was never enough" On the whole trip Jon consumes…show more content…
Brian is a retired brewer. Generally Brian is a calm man. The diving teacher is a Italian man called Berto. For Jon it's very important not to fuck up as he listen with horror to Berto. The first lesson is terrible, and even though Berto had given specific details about the exercieses, Jon is still very close to drown twice which he describes as unendurable. "You are nervous under the water?" "and above the water" The lack of calmness makes Jon very nervous, and his probably afraid of dying. this is also possibly a reason why Jon drinks, to calms his nerves. Later at the reef. Jon says "you could lose yourself in that, swallowed up and gone forever, a speck vanishing in the blue without a sound or ripple". Clearly this is something Jon is afraid of. he don't want to end up in the emptiness, becoming nothing that's why he keeps pushes himself to keep going on the diving school. At reef Jon nearly drowns again, but doesn't because Berto helped him. On land Jon is bringing Berto a beer. this shows us that Jon is also capable of showing that he is grateful for what Berto did. After leaving a voice inside his heads says "yellow yellow yellow. Yellow as the desert

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