Desires

Well, because you were not in class today, dear reader, I am not precisely clear on what those desires are, specifically. He has sexual desires that are fulfilled by the nurse, and he has desires to see Kareen again, and soon after he has desires to never see her again. He then wishes to be among people, to be in the light where he can at least sense the movement of the living around him. These desires I completely understand, and would likely go through myself. The deeper desire, which is likely the one I am supposed to be talking about, is his desire to communicate his story about the state of the world and the horrors of war. The need to communicate, to interact with a world he can no longer be a part of, is simply human, and every single person alive would have similar desires. The need to condemn war is more complex, although understandable in that he is attempting to rectify the situation that brought him to his current state. I am not entirely sure if I would break my silence just to condemn war, mainly for the reason that I would likely be isolated for my radical political ideas and I could not stay sane in that isolation, having just breached the wall of silence. However, if I knew I could be successful in my attempt to condemn war without losing my sanity, I would indeed follow Joe's fictional example and scream without vocal cords against the horrible institution of war.