English B30
Essay
Sumeet Choksi
Mr. Armstrong
English 30B
February 28, 2003.
My Disillusionment
Disillusionment is experienced from time to time when what we anticipated turns out to be less than what we had hoped for. There are many circumstances in my life that involve disillusionment of which some have taken place during my stay here. But I would rather write of the disillusionments that I faced outside this country because I feel that my disillusionments in Ghana were more effectual than what I have experienced in Regina.
As a kid, I believed that there were cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy, Elmer, and super heroes such as Spiderman, Superman, and the rest that existed in reality. Though I knew that these strange living things were different from us, I considered them being from a cartoon world just like the human world. I also thought that they paid regular visits to earth just to act in cartoon shows to entertain kids and boy how I loved them so much. I always fantasized about being a great friend to all these cartoon characters and the first human to be in a cartoon show. I believed that one day this for sure would happen. Then one day, as I was watching the television, a documentary on cartoons came on. To my uttermost disillusionment I learned that cartoons were just caricatures that were drawn by great well known artist to entertain kids and make them imaginative, creative young lads. I don’t know why it never occurred to me to look up the meaning of the word cartoon in a dictionary. This very one and only documentary taught me a lot about cartoons and made me very rancorous for a while. I did not want to believe the fact that all I was watching were just caricatures drawn by well known artists. All this I saw as a kid. I wish I got to know this as a teenager so that I would not be as bitter as how I felt after knowing the truth of cartoons. However, this sullenness did not last long.
