"The Song Of Life" - A Short-Story Analysis Analytical Essay by Top Papers

This paper analyzes a short story about Japanese children on an adventure to find a grasshopper. The case is made that the narrator is a possibly a pedophile who is more concerned with his own musings than what is actually going on in the story. Furthermore, the paper posits that the interaction between the two main characters in the story probably turned out better than the narrator described. Even though the grasshopper turned out to be a bell cricket, the children probably found a lot more enjoyment out of this discovery ultimately than the idealistic narrator.