'Dialectic Essay on The Samurai\'s Garden'

'The ternion central characters, Sachi, Matsu and Stephen, either handle their solitude, retirement and isolation differently, only if there ar quasi(prenominal)ities as well. on the whole of them have been affected or struck by diseases that induct quarantine or isolation and petabit to l championliness. These emotions shape these characters lives. Matsu is a very quiet, wistful man. He does not often speak, still when he does, its with a certainty and wisdom. He seems bulge out of place over besides his tend and it, quite literally, is his sanctuary. Matsu deals with his desolation by expenditure time in and building a relationship with his crown garden. The garden is an effect for his emotions in a very similar demeanor to Stephen and his painting. several(prenominal) times Stephen marks Matsu as he did one day in December- As I entered the bamboo gate, Matsu was in the garden, rest by the pond, (81). When Matsus sister Tomoko kills herself because she c ontracts leprosy, her self-annihilation hits him hard. Not only is she his sister, but she besides asks him to get their starts fishing knife to yield seppeku. He had this lowest warning that Tomoko might take her liveness after the leprosy unfold to her face. When Sachi is also discomfit with leprosy, another cacoethes in his deportment is isolated onward to Yamaguchi leaving him to the solitude of Stephens grandfathers household and its garden. In some ways his loneliness is of his own device, because he has the choice to feed or to find companionship, yet he chooses to stay in his solitary way of life. With time, Matsu builds the relationship with Sachi, and they just about seem standardised lovers although its never that obviously put. Perhaps it is the secern of their long lives of loneliness, solitude and isolation.\nWhen Sachi contracts leprosy in her teens, she is traumatized by how terribly her family treats her. They refuse Sachi, and she feels deep dis grace. As a result, she is ostracized by her family and the village people, nearly commits s... '