Ari and Dante’s Development Through Mutual Conflict. Events in life can change people for worse or for better, depending on the situation. Throughout the novel, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz, many characters switch their beliefs after going through tough situations. The three conflicts that alter the two main characters the most, are when Ari saves Dante, when Dante moves and when Dante gets beaten up. Together, Ari and Dante go through conflicts that influence their personalities, interests and views on life. To begin, both Ari and Dante’s personalities take a drastic turn following Ari saving Dante’s life. Ari’s mood changes from neutral to moody, depressed and self-deprecating while Dante …show more content…
I didn’t want to do that. Not that I would like to. I took his sketchpad in my hands and flung it across the room.” (Alire Saenz 132). This citation demonstrates the anger Ari feels with Dante’s unnatural change of personality, and hates that the other can not be genuine with him. As a result of this, Ari’s mental health starts to rapidly decline, as he believes people fail to see him as human. This mindset, Dante and other characters’ failure to help, is what crumbles most of the relationships Ari has, effectively isolating and separating him from the world. This conflict scares both Ari and Dante emotionally, which leads to their friendship deteriorating and their personalities changing. In addition, Dante’s interests unusually switch after he moves to Chicago, from the arts to drugs, substances and girls. Though this change is never shown in great detail, this is an easy conclusion to come to by understanding the letters Dante sends Ari. In those letters, Dante portrays his new attitude with no shame. “She’s talked to me about what she calls, “getaway drugs.” My eyes glaze over when she gives me the drug talk and she gives me one of her looks.” (Alire Saenz 174). In this quotation from the novel, Dante is shown to be disrespectful and troublesome, a
Dantes isn’t just being dishonest to these people so that he doesn’t go back to prison, but also to get revenge on them. For instance, Danglars never liked Dantes. Danglars and other men wanted Dantes sent away. Danglars doesn’t like Dantes b...
On the other hand, the Inferno centers on those who turned their back to their “creator” and “source of life” in the fulfilling of earthly desires, and are thus damned for eternity. In between these two extremes is Purgatorio, which deals with the knowledge and teaching of love, as Beatrice and others help outline love for Dante so he can make the climb to paradise and be worthy. For the reader to understand the idea of Dante’s love, one must understand the influence of Aristotle, Plato, and Dante’s “love at first sight” Beatrice in transforming his concept of will and of love in life. In his Divine Comedy, Dante gains salvation through the transformation of his will to love, and hopes that the reader will also take away the knowledge and concept of love he uses to revert to the right path of
This quote symbols all feelings of sympathy and kindness have left Datnes heart as he now get revenge on all those who betrayed him. Dantes wants to be the instrument that hands out the punishment to his enemies.
During Dantès’ time in the prison Château d’If, he becomes good friends with his neighboring prisoner, Abbé Faria, a priest who helps Dantès figure out who put him in prison and why. When Abbé dies from a disease he obtains from his past relatives, Dantès considers killing himself because he cannot bare the loneliness. Right before he makes the final decision to commit suicide, he cries out to himself “I want to live, to fight in to the end...
The house of Dante’s childhood was a place of freedom and discovery. With a vast garden, there was continual change, with a comfortable and pleasant environment. The next house his family lived in was built based on his fathers dreams, modern and superficial. It was filled with furniture and material that was hostile and restricting, especially for a child.
In conclusion, we can see that Dante presents the reader with a potentially life-altering chance to participate in his journey through Hell. Not only are we allowed to follow Dante's own soul-searching journey, we ourselves are pressed to examine the state of our own souls in relation to the souls in Inferno. It is not just a story to entertain us; it is a display of human decision and the perpetual impact of those decisions.
Midway through, they appreciate the shoes a bit more but still remove their shoes whenever possible. After a while, Ari asks Dante if they will ever play the javelin game again, but with tennis shoes and Dante replies with a question. Then Ari says, “Like he knew we would never play that game again” (249). The fact that he uses “never” means their feelings towards each other will not return to the same state when they first met and had no feelings. In addition, they traveled to the desert together and it begins to rain. Ari and Dante decides to take off all of their clothes and just run around. They grew closer and Dante could feel the connection between them. He decides to take off “Everything except his tennis shoes” (272). Dante finally let go and became his true self. Finally, at the end Dante sent Ari a pair of shoes and Ari said, “I love these things” (357). He also, learned not to hide his true
His warning to Dante, is similar to several of the infernal custodians, who continually remind him that he should not be in the Otherworld,
...ards monstrous figures and sympathy towards those who seem to be tortured unjustly. In his perverse education, with instruction from Virgil and the shades, Dante learns to replace mercy with brutality, because sympathy in Hell condones sin and denies divine justice. The ancient philosopher Plato, present in the first level of Hell, argues in The Allegory of the Cave that truth is possible via knowledge of the Form of the Good. Similarly, Dante acquires truth through a gradual understanding of contrapasso and the recognition of divine justice in the afterlife. Ultimately, Dante recognizes that the actions of the earthly fresh are important because the soul lives on afterwards to face the ramifications. By expressing his ideas on morality and righteousness, Dante writes a work worth reading, immortalizes his name, and exalts the beliefs of his Christian audience.
Dante had access to these teachings and uses them to relate to the reader in a more straightforward way of why there is delineation. In this function Aristotle is not the agent of knowing, but rather a way to relay the reasoning and rationale behind God’s judgment; in this way God is not limited by Aristotle. Dante’s Inferno presents the reader with many questions and thought-provoking dialogue to interpret. These crossroads provide points of contemplation and thought. Dante’s graphic depiction of hell and its eternal punishment is filled with imagery and allegorical meanings.
Finally, Matt de la Peña shows the character’s motivation through dialogue. One day Dante finally confronts the narrator.
... Moreover, such belief in human reason signifies Dante's hope towards a bright society and the pursuit of God’s love as the other part of self-reflection. In conclusion, a great deal of tension and contrast between “dark” and “light” in The Inferno helps us to explore Dante’s self portrait—he fears dangerous desires and sinful darkness, but shows much courage and hope towards life since he nevertheless follows his guide Virgil to dive into horrible Hell. As shown in Canto I, such emotional reaction to dark and light symbols lays a great foundation for developing Dante’s broad and universal traits as his journey progresses.
In Italian Dante Alighieri (1265) Poem, The Divine Comedy Inferno, Translated by Mark Musa. Dante demonstrates the value of personal development which is the ability to keep a balanced life and continuously learn from past mistakes in order to create a better future. Dante begins the poem wrapped in his own thoughts and suffering but by the end of the poem he begins to understand other’s sufferings beyond his own. In his growth throughout his journey he learns about pain and sorrow that he cannot comprehend. He becomes more aware of the torture that is around him. At the beginning he appears to think that his life was horrible but by the end of the poem he seems to realize that he can make his and others lives better by becoming a better person. Dante also learns how to respect others by learning why the shades are in hell without judging them for their crimes, a few times however Dante disregards the core value of respect when he comes across a few shades that he personally disliked during that shades life time. Dante feels that a shade deserves to be psychically harm a shade when the shade does not respond. This shows complete disregard of the respect core value. The core value of excellence is also represented by Dante. The excellence core value is striving to be the best in all that you do and to always try to do everything better than the last time. As he goes through the layers of hell he learns more about life and gains courage that he lacked at the beginning of the poem.
From the very first page Dante shows the reader the immense effect love has on him,
In Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy” he creates Dante to change throughout the story in more ways than one. Before Dante begins his journey, he finds himself lost, and without help. Dante begins his journey in the dark woods, learning from Virgil about Gods justice, and eventually finds himself before Gods light.