Today, we have a discussion about Manners of Dying in the class. Manners
of Dying is an epistolary fiction and the audience is one single person. There
have five characters in this fiction: the captain (Harry Parlington) who is
writing to family, the doctor who provides medical information and
“assistance”, Mrs. Barlow who is the audience, Kevin Barlow who is the prisoner
being executed, and father priest who is priesting for Kevin. The captain’s
purpose is inform Mrs. Barlow how her son Kevin Barlow “faced up to his
execution by hanging for the crimes for which he was convicted.”
Dr. J proposed two possibilities for explaining why this fiction has
different perspectives of single plot. First, it may be different templates
that are written by Harry Parlington. The different versions are different
templates, and Kevin shows up nine different personalities in each template.
Second, it may be a parallel universe that parallel stories happen at the same
time. Dr. J explained that the parallel stories were affected by butterfly
effect so the same character would have different personalities and different
fates.
In my opinion, I think this
fiction is described as a parallel universe because I believe that personality
is destiny. Kevin has different personalities, so his responses to the same
event are really different. Kevin’s emotions are
different at each parallel universe, such as Jerk, calm, sense of humor, calm,
thoughtful, spiritual, timid, afraid, and nervous. Maybe the author is trying
to tell us the significance of personality. For me, I would like to be a
optimistic person so that I can face death calmly.
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