Charles Bukowski
'The man with the beautiful eyes'
I was particularly drawn to this piece I was shown. the illustrations were so simple but yet so effective how it merged with the poem for me it just brought life to the story and from there on the piece had my attention.
The storyline is of 4 children who are obsessed with a strange house which their parents tell them to stay away from, a 30 year old man emerges from the house and the kids portray his as a beautiful natural man, but later they find the house burnt down by their parents, to me the meaning behind that was the parents were jealous and intimidated by the man and because he was different to them they were prejudice towards the man and singled him out within the community.
it seems Bukowski was raising an important point about how society shapes us and how stereotypical it is,
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