So Of Course He'll Have Growing To Do But That Doesn't Make Him A Kid!! God - Blog Posts

reblog But I digress limbus company agh one time I saw someone call meursault and don father and daughter and it made me want to break several things don quixote had a grown-ass niece in the book she is At Least in her late 40s I will not hear otherwise (meanwhile meursault is like. 20-something LOL he's described as a young man at least) sinclair's infantilisation is a product of his immaturity which is literally the point of his book it's literally a bildungsroman so of Course he'll have growing to do but that doesn't make him a kid!! god in fact I'd argue viewing sinclair as a child takes away the impact of his character arc his character is already a “twist” on the original book with his inability to confess his sins to his family and everything it only makes sense that he wouldn't be able to “grow up” naturally in the book his entire experience with kromer is something he deals with at like. age 11 and his actual descent into the “realm of darkness” is sort of something he does later down the line due to other forces limbus sinclair is forcibly pulled into this realm of darkness much later in his life and much more violently making him more sheltered and making his reaction to the darkness more severe thus the fact that he's grown up now but still acts immature is Crucial in understanding him infantilising him completely goes against that because now you're saying that he doesn't know any better but he should!! that's the point!! if he was still a kid his arc wouldn't have as much meaning it wouldn't be Half as tragic or interesting tbf I think demian referring to “adults” and distinguishing himself from them probably compounds this issue but that's a little prince thing... being an adult is more so a Mindset through that book's lens rather than a matter of age also the fact that sinclair's a rich kid and it's brought up constantly is also crucial because it shows just How disconnected the upper class in the city are from suffering sinclair being a grownass guy with a childish immaturity is important because it shows that not only does the city feed on suffering it's not even that beneficial to the people that that suffering ought to benefit