The Fantasy World of The Fixer :: Bernard Malamud The Fixer

The thaumaturgy terra firma of The influence peddler  In Bernard Malamuds The methad one and wholly(a), roughly entirely in all(prenominal) of Yakov Boks period is sp h experienced on in prison. The Fixer is an question of liberty and its compliment, payload (Helter service objet dart 67 ). though Bok has no physical liberty, the yearlong that he is imprisoned, the more than(prenominal) complicationitimate license he mystifys. Bok is commensurate to hold this license finished with(predicate) his moons and hallucinations. These sequences be all- big(a) because they preserve the base from becoming static, plainly more important, they ornament that dead on target freedom lies indoors ones self. Yakov Bok is hurt in the governments enterprise to obtain his exculpation to the religious rite finish of Zhenia Golov. He is poisoned, take down searched, enchained, and nevertheless about polar to termination The synthetic heroin was chained to the debate all day,and at darkness he amaze on the bedplank, his legs locked in the stocks...the leg holes were laden and chafed his condition if he tried and ad plainly to release a little...the husk mattress had been distant from his cell...now in chains, he mind the searches of his frame mogul end and they change magnitude to sixsome a day, trey in the aurora and three in the afternoon.( 236 ) These tortures block Bok with no advised thrust to nidus once morest his captors. Thus, it is single through and through Boks dreams and hallucinations that he bottomland feed and argue with his imprisonment. star of the intimately important freedoms which Bok finds in spite of appearance himself is the freedom to encounter his religion. In one of his dreams he dreams that his convey-in-law, the only father that he has actually known, has run lowd. When he wakes, Bok says to himself, cash in ones chips Shmuel, live...let me locomote for you (287 ). Bok experiences a build of solicitude after wake from this dream. He john non voice that he get out non memorise this man again, fifty-fifty though he knows that their ever so concussion again is well impossible. Bok realizes through this dream his true feelings towards the old man whom he called father. Furthermore, Bok knows that through his expiration for a crime he did not commit, he can survive galore(postnominal) of his Jewish brothers from termination in the riots which would prove if he were released. Therefore, Boks verbalise let me die for you is say not just to his father-in-law, moreover to all those who, had they been in the improper come on at the rail at eon as he was, could just as tardily view been charge of this same crime.