Upbringing is very much to create identity and personality. Has it been a good upbringing, so you are polite and pleasant to handle, you are incredibly well-liked. This is combined with a strong self-confidence helps to provide a framework for a good personality. It is in transition from child to adult, that personality is created, it is there where the education should take place. Because the creation of a personality is so important for life, is one of the most common motifs within all such kind of art - but especially literature. I visit the prison, it is also the transition from child to adult who is at the center.
Visits to the prison story of Ignazio Silone's about a man who thinks back on some key episodes, he has experienced as a boy, who has set him for life and therefore influenced his upbringing. There are three episodes every few years. It is a 1st personal narrative, and when he looks back, it can be concluded that there are so bagudsyn. The narrator comes with some evaluative statements that makes the reader aware of what he has felt in the various episodes, for example. "For me it was an important event, as my father, some years later, the first ..." (l.49 p. 15).
In the first episode (l. 1 - l. 48) the narrator sits in the door of their house with a stavebog when he sees an arrested man being followed by the past two gendarmes. He seems, the arrested man look funny, and he laughs at him. To his great surprise, his father did not think it's funny and he gets told off, which seems to him incomprehensible. In the evening his father takes him to town, seeking the judge to ask him what the arrested man has done. In the episode the narrator is about seven-eight years old, which can be justified by saying that he "fight [s] his first matches with vowels and consonants" (l. 12 p. 14) - ie. that he exercises in spelling. It can also be seen from the fact that he has not come to the stage where he knows that you can not laugh at people who are in misery. He lacks compassion. As it is a father's duty, he scolds the narrator set out to educate him. It is seen that the father takes the upbringing of his son very seriously when he, in addition to bawl him out, also seeks out the judge, who can tell what the arrested man has done. The father emerges as a role model for the narrator. The narrator looks up to his father, which can be read by example. "Never before had he been so unhappy with me" (l. 19 p. 14). Here it is, especially the word of dissatisfaction, the narrator's desire to make his father happy with him.
In the second episode (l. 49 - l. 167) are the narrator for the first time allowed to take his father out to their fields in Fucino. When they reached the place, the father discovers that he has forgotten his tobacco at home, but it is too late to turn back. It gives the boy a sense of guilt because his father would never forget his tobacco. When they arrive in their fields gives the father his son some money and ask her son to get some tobacco. There are no people on the roads and the narrator is about to give up when a very poor peasant passes. He offers him both money and his lunch in exchange for half cigar, which is the only poor peasant's, but he will not barter away his half cigar. To the narrator's surprise, giving the poor peasant, he suddenly half the cigar, as the narrator then gives to the father. The text states that "[it was] a few years later" (l. 49 p. 15) - compared to the first episode. The second episode takes place so a few years after, and therefore the narrator enough encirclement 12 years at this time. He himself says: "For me it was an important event," and he refers to cock crowing as ritual, which he missed by a lot of things which he sees as a sign of "seriousness of life" (l. 66 p. 15) . So it is this episode, as the narrator sees as his transition from child to adult. Along the way, the problem that his father has forgotten his tobacco. It is the narrator, who is scheduled to address the problem. On the way to solve the problem, he is by giving up, but then there will be a poor man. The poor man will not sell the narrator's half-cigar for money - perhaps because it seems condescending. The narrator, who is still only in the transition from child to adult, still have not learned how to behave towards others. But his frustration that the poor man would not sell him half the cigar, he offers the poor man all his food. This too will refuse the poor man, but the poor man will have pity on the narrator, as he give away half the cigar. The narrator will then solved the problem on their own, and hurries over to his proud father, and as stated in the text "I was too busy to come and make a good picture of my father" (l. 163 p. 17 ). It is clear here that he is still trying to make his father happy, and it succeeds.
In the third episode (l. 168 - l. 208) the narrator sees the poor man who gave him half the cigar again. He has been arrested. The narrator feels a shock in the heart, and hurried to his father, but he is not home! The narrator finds him in the barn, and next day they go to the judge, to hear what a crime, the poor man has committed. In court they are told that the poor man's stolen, but they are allowed to visit him in prison. Together takes the father and the narrator to jail, where they visit the poor man and gave him a cigar. Story ends with the narrator says, "where I was delighted when he immediately, at first glance, know me again" (l. 208 p.18). Just from first to second episode, the narrator again been some years earlier from second to third episode. He sits in the same place as in episode one, where exactly the same incident happens with a man who has been arrested by the gendarmes. But unlike the first episode, he sits and reads Phædrus' fables, and he feels sorry for the arrested man, who also is the man who helped him to solve his problem with providing tobacco to his father. When he would find his father and tell him what happened, his father is not home. When he finds his father, his father asks him: "If there [is] an accident in the family" (l. 177 p. 18), and although there has been an accident, so similar yet narrator yes, which is slightly strange but it'll be seen as an expression of his excitement. When they are allowed to visit imprisoned by the judge, the judge also writes the narrator's name on the label which gives them access to the prison. It is an indication that the narrator has grown up and that he can no longer walk under his father's name - he has come its own identity. Since he is now in his own eyes was an adult, he suggests that they should give the poor man a cigar when they visit him. As a recognition of, initially proposed by the narrator, but in a larger perspective that the narrator now has its own personality and identity, respond father: "excellent idea" (l. 199 p. 18).
Novel Lens design is thus the transition from child to adult, where the narrator in the first episode is a child, and in the third episode is grown, where he has created his own personality. Second episode is rite of passage where the personality is created. As the father of the third episode finds out that the narrator has pity on the poor man, he is proud that his son has reached the stage where he has found favor with his own feelings and found his personality. To show his son up, his father takes him up to the judge, who smilingly listen to the narrator's report on the poor man. The narrator discovers, first saying that he has acquired its own identity and is no longer a part of his father when the judge not only writes his father's name on paper but also his own. Throughout the story the father appears as a perfect example of how a father should be the role model for his boy. Father's education success, which can be viewed in light of the fact that he laughs in the first episode of one arrested and in the third episode feels compassion. After that the son has discovered that he has acquired its own identity, he is happy. It is also why he says "I was delighted when he immediately, at first glance, know me again" (l. 208 p.18). He is delighted with his "new wins" personality, as the poor man stresses that he has by being able to recognize him in prison.
Formation as the narrator undergoes in the story can be said to be timeless, because you are not born with an identity and personality, and therefore have to create it. To guide children to create their own identity and personality, there have always been role models. In ancient times was to think as a child around with a teacher in the Middle Ages it was squire to a knight, etc. But still the father almost always be seen as a role model for her son. However, the children are under some totalitarian regimes have been completely cut off from their parents as role models in an attempt to brainwash children. Examples of this are, for example. during the Nazi regime in Germany and the Fascist regime in Italy. Visit the novel in prison, was originally in Italian and published a few years after the Fascist regime fell, where all distanced themselves from this form of governance. Story can be seen as an invitation to parents to be good role models for their children. The title Visiting the prison can thus be seen as it to visit a prison, is a part of a good upbringing, where children can see how not to commit himself. If prison is seen as an expression of the fascist regime, it can also largely be a call to denounce fascism and the former regime in Italy.
