They Died For You

Entry #6 - They Died For You

A darker piece, which as I explained to my mum was kind of inevitable considering what goes on inside my own head. But that's another story altogether.

This image is a direct influence from a particular paragraph in the book 1984:

"At this moment his mother was sitting in some place deep down beneath him, with his young sister in her arms. He did not remember his sister at all, except as a tiny, feeble baby, always silent, with large, watchfuleyes. Both of them were looking up at him. They were down in some subterranean place - the bottom of a well, for instance, or a deep grave - buit it was a place which, already far below him, was itself moving downwards. They were in the saloon of a sinking ship, looking up at him through the darkening water. There was still air in the salon, they could still see him and he them, but all the while they were sinking down, down into the green waters which in another moment must hide them from sight for ever. He was out in the light and air while they were being sucked down to death, and they were down there because he was up here. He knew it and they knew it, and he could see the knowledge in their faces. There was no repoach either in their faces or in their hearts, only the knowledge that they must die in order that he might remain alive, and this was part of the unavoidable order of things."

Sorry, I know it's long but you just wouldn't understand where i'm coming from. The paragraph states that his missing mother and sister were somehow below him in a dream yet I wanted to flip this viewpoint because it is he who is living the almost hellish lifestyle and perhaps it is him who is beneath them.

It is the darkness which helps to portray this mundane, boring lifestyle in which he lives. I feel that the two quotes really resonate and provide the best insight into what the piece means. They read:

"down in some subterranean place - the bottom of a well, for instance, or a deep grave - but it was a place which, already far below him, was itself moving downwards."

"they must die in order that he might remain alive, and this was part of the unavoidable order of things."

Again I have twisted the paragraph somewhat as his mother is exceptionally tall/big which is the opposite to what he feels in his life. She is still there even if he cannot see her.

Enjoy.