J.P Begins

In Where I'm Calling From inside of Raymond Carvers Cathedral you find a situation in which J.P is involved that is very similar to the movie Batman Begins. "He'd suffered all kinds of terror in that well, hollering for help, waiting, and then hollering some more." pg 130. J.P falls into this well, and suffers a trauma he believes has shaped him, with things such as the sounds that came around him and the feeling of bugs at his sides. It is not until his father gets there with a rope to help him that he can actually feel a little more secure. In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne falls inside a well at an early age. There he suffers a terrible trauma as well with a colony of bats flying around him. He too is saved by his dad with a rope. But what could be the meaning of this in J.P's life? We know the case of Bruce Wayne, where it is only after he has confronted his greatest fear with his experience in the well with the bats that he can actually get to help others. And how else could you help others if you cant deal with your own problems first? Sometimes moments like these are necessary for us to take action in the future, but sometimes the same occasion can take to two very different outcomes. In the case of J.P, he had almost the exact same experience as Bruce Wayne, but his outcome came out different.

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When we look towards the present J.P is going through you see he is at a sort of alcoholic rehabilitation center. How did his condition end up being like this? Destiny? I don't think so. Something lead him to end up like this. If you see how a trauma such as the one that Bruce Wayne and J.P went through, you know its not something easy to overcome. Bruce Wayne could only get over it after living somewhere in the Himalayas with a bunch of monks. What if this event in J.P's life was something that got him to look for a way out of his problems by drinking alcohol? It wouldn't be something out of this world now a days. The two ways in which you can get out of a situation are clearly expressed here with two very different characters who had a very similar experience. The way in which you treat an opportunity and the measures you take parting from it can become decisive in what the future holds for you.