INVISIBLE MONSTERS
To sacrifice oneself and save others is what we've known as human love, and we have also learned that we should respect those who could perform that in any situation, but in reality, the numbers of those people who don't care about what others do seems much greater than the number of those who do. In Stephen Crane's story, "The Monsters", Henry Johnson who sacrifices himself into the fire in order to save a little boy gets treated like a monster just because his face has "burned away"(84). This is very serious problem because it's not what happens only in the book, but also in our present lives.
Henry Johnson is a man who works for Dr.
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The chief of police comes to Dr. Trescott next day and says that he's got Johnson in the jail. He suggests that when Dr. Trescott comes to take Johnson out of the jail, he would better "bring a-er-mask, or some kind of a veil"(103). The chief of police and the people in th town's reaction to Johnson's face is as if it is to a monster. After few days, four men, including Judge Hagenthrope, come to Dr. Trescott and say, "we want you to get out of this trouble"(116). They are thinking that Dr. Trescott's care for Johnson is the trouble because Dr. Trescott is the only man who is doing what the whole town doesn't want, and this appears to be the trouble that Dr. Trescott is having against everybody in town. He refuses gently, for he believes that it is not a thing to do as a human to someone who saved his son.
Johnson was a perfect monster for everybody. The way people treated Johnson before the fire changed as his face changed. Miss Bella Farragut "anounced that she had been engaged to marry Mr. Henry Johnson"(85), but when she saw Johnson's new face, she was shuddering in terror and tried to get away from him. Miss Bella was one who was going to be closest person to Johnson - wife. The story shows that even a closest human being changes and sees with the different look. From the experience of what I've seen, most of my
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