The Brothers K A Close Look At

The Brothers K: A Close Look At The 1960s Essay, Research Paper

The Brothers K–a close look at the

1960s

The 1960s was a decade that destroyed the traditional

view of living in America. It brought new ways of thinking

and fought the old ones. Before this decade, life was much

simpler in America. The average American went to church

regularly, obeyed the laws, and basically did whatever their

forefathers did, without any change. The 1960s destroyed

all of this. The hippies of today believe that .it took a

megalithic event like the 60s to shatter the old energies to

let the new energies of peace, light and love shine through.

(zb.html). Perhaps this is not as far from the truth as we

may think.

The movement of the 1960s sought to break free from

tradition. It showed this in many ways. For instance, the

traditional view that sex should be saved for marriage was

utterly forsaken. In The Brother.s K, Everett, along with

many others, promoted free love, in which everyone willingly

gives their body to sex, with whomever they please. This

was a major belief of the hippie movement. Even Irwin, who

was the one who stayed closest to his Seventh Day Adventist

views of Mama, ended up falling in love and having a baby

before marriage. He found that it was too hard to stay

pure, when everyone else around him was promoting the

opposite.

The reason so many of the people in the 1960s turned to

new ways of life, is that they decided .every freedom

[should be] infinitely extended and voraciously enjoyed.

(fonda.html). These freedoms included sex, drugs, speech,

and anything else they could take advantage of. They did

not care what the authorities, such as their parents and the

police, had to say because they thought the authorities were

trying to stifle their freedoms. The people had the ability

to speak out and fight for their individual rights, so they

did. They started to uncover themselves from the blankets

of traditional society and dared to be themselves. They no

longer conformed, but did what they believed to be right.

This psychological shift to non-conformity frightened

conventional people because they did not know how to handle

the situation. They had never seen anything like it before.

Some of the people in the 1960.s even decided to

forsake the traditional view of religion, arguing that it

.use[s] fear, domination and oppression to terrify [it.s]

followers into giving the church all their individual power.

(zb.html). In The Brothers K, Kincaid, Everett, Peter and

Freddy all chose to follow this movement to forsake their

religion, though each to a different extent and in their own

ways.

After the .Psalm Wars., in which Everett and Mama

hurled beliefs at each other in a outrageous manner, Everett

forsook his traditional Seventh Day Adventist views

completely. He thought he had no need for this oppressing

religion. Instead, he took up speaking to large crowds,

speaking to them against the current political state of

America. Everett said that all that was needed was love,

peace and brotherhood. Meanwhile he had totally destroyed

his relationship with his mother.

Everett despised violence and believed that in an ideal

society, cruelty and violence would be legislated out of

existence. Because of these beliefs, Everett hated what was

happening in Vietnam. So when the time came for him to be

drafted into the army, he set his draft papers on fire and

fled to Canada. While in Canada he lived with his

girlfriend, Natasha, for a while until she got pregnant and

left him. After she left, Everett was devastated and began

to question himself and the powers that be. Soon after

this, Everett received word from Kincaid that Irwin had been

institutionalized by the army. Irwin had seen a young boy

murdered by his fellow army men. Irwin could not handle

this and the others became afraid that he would leak the

story. So to cover up, his colleagues marked him insane and

dillusionary. Upon coming back to America to save his

brother Irwin from the institution, Everett was thrown in

prison for being a .draft-dodger.. During his time in

prison he received a letter from Natasha, saying that she

missed him and wanted him back. Everett soon came to

realize that there must be a higher power out there and,

because he refused to follow the tradition of calling it

God, he simply titled it .You.. Although people such as

Everett forsook religion, they could not quite fill the void

that the absence of God left in their souls. Because of

this, most of them eventually came back to religion to a

certain extent.

Peter, on the other hand chose a totally different path

from his brother. All through his childhoo

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