The Circuit

Working on a farm is hard but having to move from state to state and city to city is really hard. How about having them both happen to you in a span of about 3 months. That’s is the harshness of the short story “The Circuit” and a boy named Ito. Think about just the hassle with your family having their life’s on the line because they cannot keep a job for 3 months and having to get another job hopefully to them.

There are many references in the book. There is a reference to the Garden of Eden, an angel, a circuit, and the only hope. Now, there are two references that have to deal with religion in the reference to the Garden of Eden and the trumpet. The reference to the Garden of Eden in the story is when they run and hide from the bus. This is just like when Adam and Eve eat the apple and they hear god coming and they run away. If you think about it, it might not just be that they don’t want the bus to see them when it drives by because otherwise, they would have to go to school. It might just be that they are afraid of something and that it leads into something like that they have to move and I think that it referenced to the moving when they ran and hid. This is because when Adam and Eve ran, they were afraid of god.

The other reference that has to do with religion is when Ito wants to learn how to play the trumpet. The reference in this one is that when you see an angel at Christmas time, which is the time of a new life, is a trumpet. The reference in this book to the trumpet could be telling us that Ito could be the family’s only hope which ties in with another question that we ask ourselves, what is the only hope for the family. Since he is the “angel” he could be the family’s only hope in that he gets maybe a job because he goes to school.

The last reference in the book is that of the circuit. This short story is called “The Circuit” is because that a circuit keeps going over and over and over again just like the family and how they keep moving and having to move. A circuit short circuits sometimes and I think that the family is exactly like a circuit unless they can get Ito to school and he can get a job and they can stay in one place for at least two years. That ties with the question, what is their only hope too. Ito is their only hope and I is shown in many ways in that the trumpet, he goes to school, etc.

The story “The Circuit” has plenty of references. Ito is the main character and he is the only hope and if he can’t do anything that is intelligent related, the family is not going to make it far in the cruel world.