The Filipino And The Drunkard Analysis

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Analysis of the story “The Filipino and the Drunkard” By William Saroyan William Saroyan was an internationally renowned Armenian-American writer, playwright and humanitarian. Saroyan is unique among writers. He acknowledged the Armenian culture as an important source of literary inspiration. Saroyan writes humanely and powerfully, with restless enthusiasm. His major themes are aspiration, hope and honesty; materialism and success mean nothing. His works show the basic goodness of all people, especially the obscure and naive and the value of life. One of his works is the story “The Filipino and the Drunkard”. It is about racism and public apathy. This text is about two persons: the Drunkard and a boy named Filipino. The story takes place in a waiting room and on a ferry between San Francisco and Oakland. In the beginning of the story, the Drunkard starts to bother the Filipino. He tells him to stay away from the other people because they are white and he isn’t. The Filipino reacts by trying to get away from the Drunkard. When the…show more content…
He was a black person, that’s why the Drunkard didn’t like him. He was an intelligent person, but he got nervous and started to tremble when the Drunkard was annoying him, and all these things leaded to a rage inside him. When it was over his strength to support the Drunkard, he killed him with a very sharp knife. All these things happened unconsciously. The theme of the story is that sometimes the best defense is a good offense. The author wants to show us that while you are protecting yourself, you may also hurt or even kill somebody, like it happened in our story. The idea of this story is that we need to secure ourselves, but also we don’t need to forget about the others, even if they are not very kind to us. We need to control ourselves, and to try to solve all our problems peacefully, without any physical

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