Communications post 2

Smoke Signals

In the movie Smoke Signals it shows Victor's journey of him finding himself. Victor is shown as an angry person searching for answers. Victor doesn't like talking about his dad and see's his dad as a bad person. " Thomas you didn't even know my father. Did you know my father was the one who set your parents house on fire? Did you know my father beat my mother? Did you know my father beat me too?"(Smoke Signals).  Thomas is almost constantly asking Victor about his father and it drives Victor crazy. Victor has bad memories of his father and he feels like Thomas didn't know who his father really was. Victor has put up a wall because of the pain his father has caused him. "You gotta look mean or people wont respect you"(Smoke Signals). Victor likes to scare people away and he likes people be afraid to approach him.

Thomas has a different way of seeing the world around him. He see's the beauty in everything and he looks deeper into things then the average person does. Thomas comes up to Victor and is apologetic for the loss of his father and Victor asks him how he found out and Thomas says; "I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight. And your mom was just in here crying"(Smoke Signals). Thomas says that he could feel the loss of Victors dad in nature. Thomas feels everything really deeply. "You know there are some children who aren''t really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them...Victor and me, we are children of flame and ash"(Smoke Signals). Thomas is saying that birth is a painful experience for the mother and child and he's relating it to fire. When he says that they are "children of ash and flame"it's because they literally were babies when Victors dad set Thomas' parents house on fire.