Like a Banjo String

At first, I found it is hard to understand what the author wants to express. I feel sorry to read that prescription is just a blank paper. I don’t understand why the old storyteller told the lad to break one thousand and two hundred strings. But after I read it for several times and research for the author. I find out that life just like a circle and we need a reason to live with.

Like a banjo string tells a story about two blind people. One is the old and one is young. They all carried a three-stringed banjos and their job is storyteller. The old storyteller make up his mind to broke one thousand banjo strings; because this is “ the special ingredient for the prescription to cure hid blindnedd”. After the old storyteller found out that prescription is just a blank paper, he felt empty and desperate. But soon he realized that the process is more important than the end, he gave the same prescription to the lad and told him to break one thousand and two hundred strings.

“Through the endless expense of mountain and valleys walked to blind man, one old, one young, their straw hats bobbing up and down as they hurried along, one mattered little whence they came, or where they were going.” (CP321) while I was reading, there is a picture appear in my mind. A picture with endless mountains, I can see green all over my eyes. There are two small black points at the center of the picture. After I look at them closer, I find the points represent two people. In the nature, people was so small, they are hardly to be seen just can be show as points.

I was surprised to find that the beginning and the ending is the same. It is not a coincidence for sure. I read the article again; it is obvious that the lad is the past of the old storyteller, while the old storyteller will be the future of the lad. The lad seems like repeating the life of the old storyteller. They walking one behind the other, the lad followed the old storyteller’s footprint. The old storyteller leaded the lad. I can’t help to question that whether life is a circle and the ending is known.

In the Wild Ram’s Gap, the lad fall