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We tend to pursue things in this world that are unattainable while we overlook the things we actually have in life. Whether it is a specific job, love interest, or car, the search for these things make us blind to the surrounding world. And as soon as we reach the goal, we lose interest. This is because we have a need to be fulfilled by something or someone else; we believe that happiness comes to us from others instead of from ourselves. Gavin, a 12-year-old boy from England, lives with his parents in Africa because of his father’s job at a university. He spends the day killing lizards with friends. Gavin has an awkward relationship with the women of the family; ever since his sister turned fifteen years old and began to spend time with the mother as an adult, he has tried to attract his mother’s attention in which he doesn’t succeed. This lack of interest had resulted in frequent daydreams about the death of his sister and father. Gavin is aware that these thoughts are unacceptable, but dreaming about how a possible accident would result in a closer relationship with his mother and moving back to England, he let his fantasies take over. It is as if he justifies the daydreams indirectly by allowing the dreams to reappear as when he justifies the killing of lizards for fun: “A slight guilt had soon grown up among the boys, and so they convinced themselves that the lizards were pests and that, like rats, they spread diseases”. (l. 82 ff) All children consider what the world would look like if death is to occur, and this is a normal behaviour because all children are addicted to attention; children tend to believe that they are the centre of the world because attention is something they can relate to.
Approximate Word count = 1144
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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