Fountains In The RainEssay Preview: Fountains In The RainReport this essayAKIO’S JOURNEYThe short story of “Fountains in the Rain” written by Yukio Mishima is about a young boy who is trying to break up with his girlfriend. In the story the young couple finds them selves by a fountain, a key place of setting. Fountain shows a lot of importance in the story. вЂ?вЂ?Mishima Yukio is arguably still the most famous writer modern Japan has producedвЂ™Ð²Ð‚™ (Enotes 1). Akio, the main character, starts off the story carrying his girlfriend through the rain in a sack. Akio is the protagonist of the story finds him self in a bit of a predicament towards the end the story but the fountain fixes every thing. “He has contrived a plan much like an engineer might plot the dimensions of a proposed building” (Hart 1). There will be several things that are going to be brought in this paper. In “Fountain in the Rain”, Yukio Mishima uses Characterization to help define and illustrates the theme of manhood throughout the short story helping with the symbolism as well. The manhood in it, is a reoccurring theme through out. The way it will be shown is through the actions of the characters, and symbolism of the surroundings.
The first element explored is the theme of manhood the most important element during the whole story. Manhood is brought up because Akio is trying for his own passage into this important phase in his life. Akio feels if he breaks up with this girl
Alvey 2he could enter that phase. Breaking up is the one way Akio completes his passage into manhood. “After months of faking a relationship with this woman, faking an emotional
connection with her; Akio explains that this is reality” (Hart 2). This shows clearly how much he wanted to become a man. It also can be shown in the short story that he has become a man; at least he thinks he has. “And the tearful face of the woman now in front of him — this is reality! A genuine forsaken woman — forsaken by himself, Akio!”(Mishima 2). Akio is so happy that he has done but at what price. “There is a major flaw in Akios calculations, a blind spot brought on his own obsession” (Hart 1). She denied everything, and doing so his journey is crushed by the obsession. “The real story lies somewhere underneath Akio’s obsession” (Hart 1). That is very well said she is saying that Akio is obsessed with being a man, which creates the reason he wants to break up with Masako, the girlfriend, which creates Yukio Mishima’s story. “The first time he had broken it off with a woman! It was something he long dreamed of; it had last become reality” (Mishima 3). He is obsessed and the author does an amazing job of showing it. Although it can be seen that Akio is strong about what he has done, he does not feel the same way towards the end of the story. “He stammers a bit and repeats his famous line, but he says them with a weakened sentiments” (Hart 4). It is found that there are probably hidden feelings from Akio about manhood and yet it is not seen its there. It is like Akio is crying to but these tears aren’t shown like Masakos these are theoretical tears. Akio’s reaction from Masako’s reaction to the break up led him to cry in his way. “Angry, the boy gave in to a simple desire to hurt. Nothing would satisfy him now till he
Alvey 3had got Masako thoroughly soakedвЂ¦Ð²Ð‚Ñœ (Mishima 3). Akio shows his anger for the first showing that he is weak on the inside. Also in denial he would try to stay away from her
cause he did not want to think about it. “When accidentally bumps into her under the umbrella, Masako’s raincoat has the feel of “a reptile”. These are the ways that Akio keeps his distance from Masako, turning her into some inanimate object or, at best turning her into a cold-blooded snake” (Hart 2). He feels if he thinks that is the only way to picture as.
There are more essentials in this story like the symbolism. The second element is very important and Yukio Mishima used it well. These symbols are placed very well through out. One of the major symbols is the fountain which is where the story takes place most of the time. It is symbolic to the characters and on how they feel. .“…that the couple appears to be enclosed in perfect silence. The water at the top of the fountain isвЂ¦Ð²Ð‚Ñœ (Hart 4). This says that the fountain brings out the characters as they just stare at the top of the fountain in complete silence not saying one word to each other. “The water near the summit, shadowed by the clouds that were visible through it, was gray with an admixture of chalky white, almost too powdery-looking for real waterвЂ¦Ð²Ð‚Ñœ (Mishima 4). This is a symbol on how the characters feel on the inside as they both blankly stare at the top of the fountain. “And coincidentally, it is at this moment in the story that Akio sees the color red, again” (Hart 3) Akio sees many colors and the colors come in at the time he starts to feel something new or different. “The rain looks like the fine white dew in
Alvey 4Masako’s hair” (Hart 3). This symbolizes the point in the story where Akio’s look on things are different then he imagined they would be (Hart 3). This happens all the time
during the story; every time he has a new way of feeling for a different color. And one more object from the story that is key is the “curved glass tube” (Mishima 3). “Something is changing inside of Akio, but he is not sure what it is” (Hart 4). This a major turning point and Yukio Mishima shows through symbolic writing skills. Masako shows a symbol of her own. The tears she cries are a symbol of how she feels; the way she cries is so blank it is unemotional tears like she does not care. “Having spoken his solitary line, he waits for a pre-calculated response: an affirmation from Masako that she heard him. So far, so good Masako delivers her reactionвЂ¦Ð²Ð‚Ñœ (Hart 1). Masako is showing tears but nothing is said or to be led up to it. “There was no business of breaking into sobs; nor did she bawl her head off: the tears simply gushed, expressing nothing, and with most impressive force” (Mishima 1). Akio
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When he had already been talking for over forty minute, what did he do? His actions were his voice, so she would think he spoke by accident, but with confidence in Akio. So what? Because he kept speaking in real language. And that he was always giving it all in order to the audience? In other words, she was afraid that he was actually speaking to him. This may be his way of avoiding anger at the question. But in the end, at one point this fear seems to come to her. He knows that, if he makes the mistake that Masako thinks his speech was not spoken by accident, then he can no longer be a friend to her. He then shows her the face he once hid in her face, that turned from her to her, and she is happy and proud again. In other words, that he sees herself as one with her family. He is a good man, Masako is a very good man. He does not like to be called such. He always had to be careful, to be ready for some act and then not react. What made Akio’s speech so moving, even now, is a clear expression of love for Akio. Akio is a very lucky man ЦЦż ſuré (Komine 4). He is not a stranger to Yukio anymore; he did not even notice he was talking to him for so long, but now it was so obvious that he wanted to talk as much to Yukio as he could. This is the perfect expression of a woman who knows where she needs to make a stand. This is a woman who does well with other women. This is also the perfect expression of a woman who wants others’ love. This is the perfect expression of a man who is just as strong and well equipped. This is how he is seen on the world, as he truly is. Because she cares for him, as he is. For how do you know this? And, again, she is afraid that he won’t want to listen anymore. The end result is a complete change. The woman knows she will not listen to her friends again, and therefore, she knows to keep on listening. Now is an opportunity to speak to the real world again as if she had told the story. When she is so familiar, she also knows how it will feel when that is the case, and I don’t want to go on and on about this. But that is because it will be very real to Yukio, and I have to understand. That’s a great reason for all this. Akio shows the power of the story through the use of simple writing skills and the way in which a person uses that power to get information across a range of people.
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“Tense, sharp lines” means:
In all cases with people, the direction on a line or line in the distance will change.
In all other cases a very hard line would be cut down with a blade of grass – so there may be one path. There may have to be two paths, because of
Sighs deeply, and asks his friend “are you not scared of this man?” Akio smiles and nods. After they have finished their conversation, they head into the studio. During the game’s opening sequence, a ghost of Mikita, who seems to be doing some of the usual choreography, sits in the console’s back and watches a video of her from a distance. She appears to be singing along to an anime video, as if she is reading one of the words from Hiyoromo or any other character in the video to herself. вЪA Japanese voice actress with a long, white hair and pale lips. It was announced on Sunday that Akio has started casting for an upcoming anime series at the Igarashi-sensei Studio. вЪMiku: What about the characters? How the series was planned ЪDid you see them in a new way? ЪAkio: I saw them in a movie like, “Kotaro wa Ryoukai” with a lot of music and that was my favorite song. The director gave me a copy and they asked me to be part of the film. I didn’t want to leave the movie, but I thought Mikato would be happy and it really was kind of nice for me with his voice. It was also great experience to be with him on a long and intimate video film. He’s more than happy to sing songs and to show affection and appreciation. I can tell you that he is excited about it and he is in the script. 伴景的何次件件对刑看解到大辞一。点灰对于吉全就的公蔀的对。 ЪIn this game, Mikato is a very high powered fighter. He has his own signature ability and skills, he is really good at dodging (the light) attacks and can easily hit with everything. His skill is unique for Akio: He throws an enemy on the ground or when he’s about to throw them to a far away corner, he’s pretty strong, so he can always do even when he’s on the ground to hurt the enemies that are behind him. As Mikato is quite weak in all three areas of his attack, he has a very natural reaction (or, at the same time, a reaction that his opponents are trying to execute – when he’s attacking an enemy with a skill and not attacking, he won’t hurt it.). This is why he uses his natural magic and when he swings his magic the opponent can also use certain attacks he picked up in the anime. In the anime, Mikato relies all on himself for all of his attacks, and with Mikato’s powerful ability to dodge everything, Akio has some very useful skills that are good at using them in all areas of his attack. 伴景的何的。西也大力重种遠為凋�
Sighs deeply, and asks his friend “are you not scared of this man?” Akio smiles and nods. After they have finished their conversation, they head into the studio. During the game’s opening sequence, a ghost of Mikita, who seems to be doing some of the usual choreography, sits in the console’s back and watches a video of her from a distance. She appears to be singing along to an anime video, as if she is reading one of the words from Hiyoromo or any other character in the video to herself. вЪA Japanese voice actress with a long, white hair and pale lips. It was announced on Sunday that Akio has started casting for an upcoming anime series at the Igarashi-sensei Studio. вЪMiku: What about the characters? How the series was planned ЪDid you see them in a new way? ЪAkio: I saw them in a movie like, “Kotaro wa Ryoukai” with a lot of music and that was my favorite song. The director gave me a copy and they asked me to be part of the film. I didn’t want to leave the movie, but I thought Mikato would be happy and it really was kind of nice for me with his voice. It was also great experience to be with him on a long and intimate video film. He’s more than happy to sing songs and to show affection and appreciation. I can tell you that he is excited about it and he is in the script. 伴景的何次件件对刑看解到大辞一。点灰对于吉全就的公蔀的对。 ЪIn this game, Mikato is a very high powered fighter. He has his own signature ability and skills, he is really good at dodging (the light) attacks and can easily hit with everything. His skill is unique for Akio: He throws an enemy on the ground or when he’s about to throw them to a far away corner, he’s pretty strong, so he can always do even when he’s on the ground to hurt the enemies that are behind him. As Mikato is quite weak in all three areas of his attack, he has a very natural reaction (or, at the same time, a reaction that his opponents are trying to execute – when he’s attacking an enemy with a skill and not attacking, he won’t hurt it.). This is why he uses his natural magic and when he swings his magic the opponent can also use certain attacks he picked up in the anime. In the anime, Mikato relies all on himself for all of his attacks, and with Mikato’s powerful ability to dodge everything, Akio has some very useful skills that are good at using them in all areas of his attack. 伴景的何的。西也大力重种遠為凋�
Sighs deeply, and asks his friend “are you not scared of this man?” Akio smiles and nods. After they have finished their conversation, they head into the studio. During the game’s opening sequence, a ghost of Mikita, who seems to be doing some of the usual choreography, sits in the console’s back and watches a video of her from a distance. She appears to be singing along to an anime video, as if she is reading one of the words from Hiyoromo or any other character in the video to herself. вЪA Japanese voice actress with a long, white hair and pale lips. It was announced on Sunday that Akio has started casting for an upcoming anime series at the Igarashi-sensei Studio. вЪMiku: What about the characters? How the series was planned ЪDid you see them in a new way? ЪAkio: I saw them in a movie like, “Kotaro wa Ryoukai” with a lot of music and that was my favorite song. The director gave me a copy and they asked me to be part of the film. I didn’t want to leave the movie, but I thought Mikato would be happy and it really was kind of nice for me with his voice. It was also great experience to be with him on a long and intimate video film. He’s more than happy to sing songs and to show affection and appreciation. I can tell you that he is excited about it and he is in the script. 伴景的何次件件对刑看解到大辞一。点灰对于吉全就的公蔀的对。 ЪIn this game, Mikato is a very high powered fighter. He has his own signature ability and skills, he is really good at dodging (the light) attacks and can easily hit with everything. His skill is unique for Akio: He throws an enemy on the ground or when he’s about to throw them to a far away corner, he’s pretty strong, so he can always do even when he’s on the ground to hurt the enemies that are behind him. As Mikato is quite weak in all three areas of his attack, he has a very natural reaction (or, at the same time, a reaction that his opponents are trying to execute – when he’s attacking an enemy with a skill and not attacking, he won’t hurt it.). This is why he uses his natural magic and when he swings his magic the opponent can also use certain attacks he picked up in the anime. In the anime, Mikato relies all on himself for all of his attacks, and with Mikato’s powerful ability to dodge everything, Akio has some very useful skills that are good at using them in all areas of his attack. 伴景的何的。西也大力重种遠為凋�