The Inner Part | Louis Simpson | Summary | Generations | Grade XII
Short summary:
The
Inner Part describes a superficially improved condition of American
civilization after the Second World War in the first three stanzas and then goes
on to show how the country is spiritually vile and corrupt. Humanity is a mere
word in a country that is spiritually dead.
Summary
After
winning the battle of the Second World War, Americans have become so proud that
they began to think superior than others. They assumed that they were the most
important people. Their behaviors changed. The leaders and the most important
persons began to wear formal clothes. They stopped wearing shirts only.
Their
wives thought that it was a mark of rude behavior to scratch their bodies in
public. Similarly, they started using formal language. They supposed that
informal language would make them like common people. In order to express their
surprise, they stopped saying the informal world “Gosh”. It shows that they
forgot their god also. They misunderstand the language of hope and kindness.
Whatever they say is a mere expression of hatred and death. There is no room
for sweet things in the world.
Their
daughter seemed as sensitive as the tip of a fly rod. Their sons looked as
smooth as a V-8 engine. They had lost their human qualities. They had become
like inanimate objects. They became too materialistic that they have forgotten
the difference between object and human being.
When
the priests examined the inner parts of birds, they found that the heart has
been misplaced and the small eggs inside them were as black as death and they
were sending out bad smell. It shows that spiritual absence in the heart of
Americans, there is neither love, nor kindness in them. The reality of the
Americans are spiritually vile, corrupt and without any sense of humanity.
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