It is in conflict with his own children who wanted to remain in their condition perhaps not to betray their own who could not get out of their condition or perhaps in order not to be rejected later by their own and by whites who never consider them as their equal.
Can we, on behalf of a better future, forcing children to leave his own social class, culture, codes, to access education and a profession that ensures them to live in material comfort but the cut off from their roots, their families and never will make them at this time at least the equals of whites who despise anyway? How to follow the footsteps of an authoritarian father, violent when not sharing the same ideals? And conversely, how to accept the idea that access to education for all claims that Black does not have her own children who seem to lose interest? How to identify with the father so excessive as himself has never been able to forge real connections with their children because they did not meet its own aspirations?
In this city where there is extreme poverty among blacks as among whites, everything seems frozen. Yet some are still inhabited by dreams: Young Mick dreams of becoming a pianist, as Carson herself. No one is someone to talk to these aspirations, until Mr Singer appears. He becomes the confidant of all these solitudes. Although being deaf-mute, or perhaps because he is, he is the one who can speak for all the secrets, all too long contained wishes. A Christ-ideal which include all our desires, all our suffering without the need to tell them and we welcome without trial. His arrival is a relief for all those people whose lives had hitherto meaningless. But what really think Mr Singer of all he "hears"? Why he agrees to be the receptacle of the suffering of all these people? Do we appreciate his presence or availability? And who cares about his plans for him?
This novel is incredibly rich in questions, we asked about our loneliness, our relationship to the next and on what one understands the other. But it is much more ...
