“See how the sun makes it all glow. The kind of day that
makes you feel good to be alive.”
{Two - Arrival THEPRIS6NER}
I suppose it does, make it all glow. But I’m not so sure
that it makes one glad to be alive in The Village. But then I suppose the
opposite to being alive in The Village, would be dead in The Village!
Everyone in The Village is a prisoner, yet it would seem
that only Six knows this. People are brought to The Village, people who
are broken mentally, to be made better. But there was nothing g broken about
Six, all he had done was to resign. But Curtis-Two couldn't have that, because he
had better things in mind for Michael Six. He was to be Curtis-Two’s successor,
someone to hand The Village over to, and Two could not escape until he had
achieved that goal. Mind you, in having escaped The Village, both Curtis and
Helen lost their son. A son who physically did not exist. What heartache they must
have felt after having gone to so much trouble so that they could have a son
11-12. Who grew up to be a disappointment to his father, because he grew up to be
a homosexual, when Two was expecting 11-12 to provide an heir to The Village.
And worse, 11-12 suffocated his mother to death! Well the woman who he thought
was his mother M2, and then 11-12 hanged himself in the ‘Go-Inside’ bar.
Somethings never change in The Village, suicide still rates pretty highly.
Before that there was 1955, a school teacher, who in an act of despair slit his
own throat! Not forgetting 4-15, the woman who was going to marry Six. She
committed Village death {suicide} by throwing herself into one of those holes
which kept opening up in The Village.
The Prisoner witnessed Village death soon after his arrival
in The Village, when the Solar café was blown up, and the waitress 455 was killed in the explosion.
Sometimes when I step outside into the sunshine during the
summer months, and think to myself, see how the sun makes it all glow, the kind
of day that makes you feel good to be alive. It is not just quotes from the
original series that I can appreciate.
Breathe in, breathe out, Village life goes on.
Be seeing you
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