Robert and the Dog

Language was born as an instrument to extend people, to convey messages in many vogues. According to the evolution of charitablekind beings, their verbiage has been an evolution too and during this process literature emerged with an artistic interest to extend feelings, thoughts and their imagination. But, what is literature? Many theorists sire tried to explain that, and we have well-nigh patterns that are typical in their texts. In the text Robert and the dog by Ken Saro-Wiwa you can find some of this patterns such as the human being view, the disposition to crumble stories and the literature as an aesthetic object.To approach with, the first example is the concept of man that is given by the text. This is non near the generic male or female rendering is nigh the type of person in it. In the text we can happen upon a men that is coward, insecure and with thirst of index finger. You can recognize this by the description of the character in the development of the stor y the thirst of power is seen in And he always repaired there nightly to exercise control over his wife and six children. (Saro-Wiwa, 1) the insecurity in Robert began to feel handle a human being (Saro-Wiwa ,page 3) and the cowardice in He gather up all the tins of dog food, all the tins of draw, tethered the dog to the settee and walked off, out of the house and the job he had loved to do. (Saro-Wiwa, page 5). In these cases we can see that the reservoir invites to get into the feelings of the character, self-aggrandising a description of it. This is a clear example of a literary text, because by this he is describing a man that is typical in the actual lower classes.On the second case we can see the disposition to analyze the story. The author has a accompaniment way to describe the principal character feelings about the dog. He shows us by a image what Robert thinks And when he got domicil in the evening and saw his children, with distended stomachs, gamboling in the f ilth that simmered in a swollen stream at his door, and watched them hungrily swallow small balls of eba, he asked himself, Who born dog? Saro-Wiwa, page 3) This description is non literal you have to deduce it, according to the text. The author is trying to transmit to the audience the par that Robert is making with the dog, but not by conditions, instead he is utilise a ignominious image of his children eating like dogs. That is were literature is present, in the way of telling and describing the thoughts of the character. In any other text the similitude is literal, but not in literature. On the last example we analyze the literature as an aesthetic object.Literature, as a written government agency of art, has to follow the basic concepts of aesthetic and, among others, there is the marryion between its invent and its content to make it beautiful. So, in the analyzed story this congener is present the form of the text uses the language beyond the importance of giving a message, it makes it alter the grammar in order to give emphasis and voice to the text She ensured that he was well fed with tinned food and milk and meat and bones. (Saro-Wiwa, page 3)The word and is used too many times, and that grammatically it is incorrect, but in literature it is not a problem. The repetition of the word and is a way to explain that the dog has more than Robert, and this shows that Robert it is prisoner of his jealousy and his thirst of power. The language and the message, the content and form make this story a work of art that traps the lectors and transmites one of the worst parts of the human being.So, to perfume up the text Robert and the Dog by Ken Saro-Wiwa is a literary piece, because of its form and content, the way of the language is used and the message that it contains. A non literary piece of writing is less emotional, and allthing is literal, you do not have to think anything, but in this text the author uses a very particular way of explainin g the feelings and thoughts of the principal character, using the aesthetic as a way for you to interpret every situation that he goes through.Also the vision of human being that is showed in this text, reflect that is a literary piece, because the author describes a men with a poor economical situation, but he neer says it, you know that just for de description. On the last the use of a shocking image makes you think about how he sees his own life. So if you connect these three reasons you can see that in a literary text the most important parts of the writing are the ones that are not written what you can infer, the moral that leaves you and the feelings of each person, and at the end that is what every work of art wants, it is the purest purpose of literature.