Steppenwolf
Essay by review • February 17, 2011 • Essay • 841 Words (4 Pages) • 863 Views
The book tells us about Harry Heller, one different guy, with "Wolf nature" as the treat of Steppenwolf says; this treat was received by Harry from an unknown person.
Everything begins when Harry Haller arrives to a room he'd rented.
Harry leaves the room, gives a walk and discover some ads that he considered interesting, for example the magic theater entrance, with the not for everyone legend.
Back to his room, he crosses a street and sees a guy carrying an advertisement of the same theater and a box that Harry wants to buy; the guy gives him a brochure and leaves. On the brochure's title, it could be read: Steppenwolf treat. Not for everyone. The paper says the Steppenwolf story: once upon a time a Steppenwolf called Harry but named Steppenwolf, he walked in tow feet but in the interior he was a real Steppenwolf.
Accidentally, he arrives to the black eagle restaurant, and after leaving a teachers' house because a photograph he didn't like, Harry sees a girl that seems interesting to him so that, he approaches her and they begin speaking, he tells her about the professor's house success and explains to her that he can not arrive to his house because something terrible is waiting for him in there, the suicide
Armanda talks to Harry about the gratefulness he feels towards her because recovering him form the death. According to Armanda, Harry is going to accomplish each of the orders that she gives him, and she finishes saying she is going to make he to fall in love with her in order, later, he to kill her.
Days later, they see Pablo, one Armandas friend; Pablo offered them a littlie box with a white dust that was cocaine, he said that it is going to make them feel much better; Harry accepts it, and of course he feels better.
One day, when Harry enters to his room, he founds Maria naked on his bed, and he inferred it is an Armanda's present, so that, he lives a relation with Maria who has never experimented the erotism and love. One day before the mask dance, Maria tells Harry about the fair she fells in lost him, because surely, on the next day, he is going to be Armanda's.
Harry goes to the dance and looks for his friends without finding them, and when he is just leaving, he receives a paper almost illegible that says: tonight, since 4, magic theater -just for crazy people-. The entrance costs the reason. Not for everyone. Armanda is in Hell. Immediately Harry runs into the room named HELL, while he is running into there, he danced with Maria. And when he finally arrives HELL, he just finds a guy with a frac; it was Armanda on a man's Disguise. They begin passing through the rooms dancing with the same women. When the room is almost empty, Harry sees a beautiful woman on a black suite, Harry feels to dance with her Longley, so they dance that way. Harry
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