In life there are those who help and those who hurt. It can be difficult to understand why people hurt and often time it can be easy to dislike or hate them. However Siamak, Vossoughi believes we should be saddened for those who hurt us. In The Broken Finger, Siamak Vossoughi, writes to show that other's bad influence shouldn't be viewed from the perspective that they have harmed you, but with sadness for the knowledge that their lives have led up to the point where they harm others. In The Broken Finger, Vossoughi tells a story his father told him of a man in an Iranian prison who remained calm whilst jailers broke his finger. As a boy he thought the moral of the story was to be strong like the man whose finger was broken. Vossoughi writes,”As…show more content… It seemed so easy. It was a crazy thing to say, but sometimes it seemed so easy. It was what the men who broke his finger did that seemed hard.” (Vossoughi, 7). It seems so difficult as a child to understand why some people would hurt others, but as we get older we see the sad truth that people do hurt others; Vossoughi displays this transition in the previous quote. The first time Vossoughi feels this sadness in his own life is in America. Vossoughi implies that this is due to his heritage of being Iranian in the quote “It didn’t come to me at once. It came to me in pieces. But those pieces came together in a small apartment in the middle of a big American city, and I looked out the window, and I saw everybody in the light of that prison cell.”( Vossoughi, 7). He witnesses the hurt other people can do first hand in America. However, Vossoughi did not feel bad for himself but instead for those who had hurt him. This is demonstrated in this quote from Vossoughi “What if you felt like crying not for your broken finger but for the boys those men had been?” (Vossoughi,…show more content… He to help future generations from becoming men who want to break fingers. He wants to stop people from having lives that lead them to hurting others. It is hard to tell people that you want to help them in this way and Vossoughi exploits that when he writes “I looked out the window, and I said to everybody, I don’t want to tell you about yourself as if it’s something you don’t know. I just want to be there for you at a certain moment, at the moment of the broken finger” (Vossoughi, 7). He then goes on to tell how he wants to be there, by writing “What saved me were words. It was still the man with the broken finger. He had used words to say that he was in charge of his own story. I wanted to do the same thing”( Vossoughi, 8) and “The question was how did the people live up to that, and the answer was that they already did, and it was my job as a writer to prove it” (Vossoughi, 8). He wants to write about the good in the world so that people who might stray into the path that leads them to hurt stay in the way of a peaceful inner mind.
Siamak Vossoughi shows that other's bad influence shouldn't be viewed from the perspective that they have harmed you, but with sadness for the knowledge that their lives have led up to the point where they harm others. Throughout The Broken Finger we are shown the narrator's growth in understanding of the moral behind the story. We should do what
