Carson Mccullers The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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For millennia, humans have attempted to understand each other in order to progress as a species. Lack of successful communication is a problem that is so deeply rooted in humanity, as it has coursed throughout history, ripping apart everything it can gasp at with its claws; from entire countries to individual relationships. In 1325 a miscommunication between citizens resulted in Modena accusing Bologna of stealing a water bucket from their city water well. This ‘aggravation’ lead to the War of the Oaken Bucket resulted in the death of over 2000 Italians. In 1977, two full Boeing 747’s collided in Tenerife, resulting in the death of over 580 passengers and crew. The black box of the plane later revealed the cause of the crash to be a miscommunication between one of the pilots and the air traffic …show more content…
We have devised so many different types of communication, ranging from facial expressions to body language to electronic messaging in an attempt to improve our communication with one another yet there we still often fail to understand one another. In Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter the characters are constantly finding themselves unable to communicate their problems. Physical barriers, lack of relatability, narrow-mindedness and failure to express thoughts limit us in our quest to understand one another, and because of the lack of communicated information we often fail to do the right thing.

In our humanity’s quest to understand one another and perfect communication, the largest and most obvious barriers are the physical ones, the barriers that we can quickly identify. Being that they are so easy to identify, physical barriers have been the first obstacle that humanity has tried to overcome in its quest to perfect communication. In the beginning, we developed languages as a way to communicate through a medium that hadn’t been used before: audio. Humans then developed writing as a
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