Brother Sebastian in the novel Lamb Essay

In the unfermented Lamb by Bernard mack Laverty, written in 1976, I cannot only when feel sympathetic towards the main character Brother Sebastian (Michael Lamb). I feel that he was a dupe of circumstances. He was brought up in a farm in Ballycastle where he was taught by his pay back to put animals who were suffering out of their misery. In the novel Mac Laverty describes how his father had pulled chickens necks so fast and expertly that they never snarl a thing. To Sebastian Owen Kane was just ilk an animal with no emerging and the most humane thing to do was put him out of his misery.throughout this novel there is a recurring theme of a father and son relationship. The killing was ritualistic as Sebastians religious beliefs would project meant that he believed that the boy was going to eternal happiness with God in heaven. It was motivated by love. It would be a pure. Of this he was sure. From the oftentimes protected environment with his mother and father on the farm he entered the Irish Christian Brothers the year he was due to intrust take which would have been about sixteen.In the Brotherhood he had no material adult sprightliness as he was restricted by the vows of Poverty, truth and Obedience. When the novel opens Sebastian is a wood work teacher in a Home (which is situated in the south of Ireland Galway) for delinquent boys, which was run by a sadistic, cruel Brother called Brother benedict. The relationship between the d wretched men was hostile as Benedict was an academic snob who looked knock off on Sebastian for his lack of formal education. He uses the simile and the metaphor A man with star language is like a man with one eye.I my egotism have four good eyes and a hardly a(prenominal) lesser ones which could be polished up Both Brother Sebastian and Benedict disagreed with each other on how to discipline the boys in the Home. Benedicts attitude was If they do not conform we thrash them. We teach them a little of God and a lo t of fear. He criticised Sebastian for his Soft centred self centred idealism. Owen Kane was put into the Home by his mother for always mitching trail. Owen suffered from epilepsy and was the youngest boy in the Home.It is true that Owen had been put away(predicate) because he had continually mitched school and had run away from home frequently the Gardai had been informed on four occasions at least. God knows how many times they had not been informed. His father would beat him often When he came home he would furbish up drunk and whip Owen with whatever came into hand. His mother would often be absent from his company but he preferred all that than breathing in the Home. He had a neutral/positive relationship with Sebastian and a negative relationship with Benedict. Owen Kane and Sebastian both have the same views on the Home.In the novel Brother Sebastian father dies and he is left a number of money from the farm in which his father owned. Brother Benedict is lecture about Obedience Obedience, Brother, is a very rare virtue and with no doubt wants Brother Sebastian to stay so the Brotherhood meets the money. From the novel we get the Atmosphere of what the Home was like The walls were painted throughout a parboil hospital green and The place was scrubbed and clean and dead same(p) a corpse. First instinctive impressions of the Home are exanimate cold miserable and absolutely unpleasant which do not link to a home at all.Bernard McLaverty uses his scenes to describe the Home and they have a similar description of a hospital The air was full of bactericidal and polish. The surrounding environment of outside the Home gives a singular welcome to inmates. Surrounding the whole complex was a high telegram fence that screamed and whistled in the constant wind from the sea A majuscule use of personification is used in this quote and it works to defend you feel anything but nice feelings, it makes you feel the Home is more like a Prison and the boys were not there to be reformed but there for Punishment.At the beginning of this novel I admire Sebastian for cosmos nice to the inmates and especially to Owen who is the youngest of the boys in the Home, suffers from epilepsy and experienced a hard bread and butter with his parents. I feel sympathetic for Owen Kane as I believe he wasnt given the opportunity at life before he was entered the Home. Benedict gets all my negatives as I see him for more evil than good. He is a bully to Sebastian, Owen and all the other boys. Brother Sebastian wants to leave because he doesnt believe in by Benedicts duct rue of Kill and cure.He plans to run away and decides to take Owen with him. I believe Sebastian wanted to take Owen with him because he had generosity for Owen and wanted him to have a better chance at life and he thought he could provide in the manner of a father and son relation Personally I think this was the beaver decision to make for Owen and him self as both of them were mise rable and subsisting in the Home seemed like a dead end, an everlasting penalisation to both of them. He is given the chance to abandon the Home when he receives the money from his fathers farm. With free will Owen agreed to leave.