‘There is nothing permanent except change’. This aphorism shows exactly how our world is going on. We never stay at one place, but constantly move due to the fluctuation of everything – science, society, and even the most rudimentary notations of people’s minds. In the world of consistent modifications, it is apt to assimilate such changes appropriately for our own goods on the premise that we clearly define our identities.
The characters of two stories, ‘One Thousand Dollars’ and ‘Getting a Job’ explicitly show how we must react and forestall from fluctuations with apt identities established in us. Gillian and Maya, the dynamic characters and protagonists of each stories, find their identities from the processes of resolving their crummy circumstances. By pulling up Gillian’s natural altruism and Maya’s force of persistence in her vision, they were able to realize their real identities and hold their personal beliefs of life.
However, it is a conspicuous fact that there exists disparity in the attitudes of the static characters. The most influential static characters are in the position of bolstering the main characters in the progress of sought in identity. In contrast, the subordinate static characters of ‘Getting a Job’ demonstrates hostile, antagonistic standpoint for the protagonists. For an instance, the secretary in ‘Getting a Job’ displays ostentatious, innocuous animosity and contempt to Maya by indirectly declining her attempt to apply for the conductorette. Unlike the ‘secretary’, most of the static characters in ‘One Thousand Dollars’ delineate supportive behavior to Gillian even the advices of them have some sense of humor. Nevertheless, all these distinctive features of characters depicted in the contexts advocate the ideal search of identity.
It is a common sense that every actions and statements characters make are motivated from trifling to substantial relativity with the ‘theme’. In the case of ‘One Thousand Dollars’, the main theme associates regarding the process of Gillian resolving the problem laid on him. The author accrues the extent of emphasis of the main theme by entailing alteration of Gillian’s heart from a cold-blooded, impertinent, haughty heart to a benevolent, genial, liberal heart. ‘Getting a Job’ illustrate the main theme, which is to virtually find one’s authentic identity, by describing a woman’s success achieved by tenacious belief upon one’s faith. Nonetheless, there is a slight distinction between the two themes, for the actual approach to realize the main theme is different. The ‘One Thousand Dollars’ seeks the approach to the theme by deep, concerned deliberation within oneself. ‘Getting the Job’ approaches to the theme by not only one’s deliberation, but mainly by her prudent mother’s haphazard, influential advices and encouragements.
The two stories generally furnishes the theme by establishing stabilized, well-related plots consisting of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Both literary works have a decent degree of similarity in the general frame, for the discovery of problem, struggle to solve the problem, and the solution period of the problem are placed correspondingly. The disparity exists in subtle, subordinate details of the works mostly on the content itself.
Not only are the 3 literary elements mentioned above – character, theme, and plot – but also does the other literary elements that ostensibly delineate the idea on the search of identity. To analyze broadly, ‘One Thousand Dollars’ express the search of identity by deep, considerable deliberation which leads to identifying Gillian’s intrinsic emotions and characteristics. Although diverging from the degree of deliberation in ‘One Thousand Dollars’, ‘Getting a Job’ delineates the consequentiality of consistency in one’s faith or ambition and establishment of an apparent vision. It is true that Maya initiates her sought of occupation on account of her commonplace, tiresome life and some curiosity at the age of 15, but the force that makes her intent on ‘conductorette’ is because of her strong vision and tenacity.
As mentioned above, the world surrounding us modifies in amorphous formations at the exceeding extent of velocity we could possibly imagine. We must hence assimilate or forfeit the aftermaths of modifications on the premise that we keep and holdback clear identities that contain unique, precious values. The two literary works ‘Getting a Job’ and ‘One Thousand Dollars’ acquaint us the knowledge to firmly establish our vision and ambition with considerable tenacity upon them and to ascend the quality of those visions with deliberate considerations.
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