The Vanishing Point

This is a very good book. It is about Carlyle Sinclair, a teacher on a prairie Indian reserve. He is
very attached to one of his former students, Victoria, but has difficulty in understanding the
Indian way of life.This is because he is unable to think as an Indian.

Carlyle believes that no one can really understand another human being as it is impossible
to get entirely into another's soul.

He studied the vanishing point in art class. The parallel lines never actually meet but they
come very close at the horizon.

All people are different like the lines that never meet. All have handicaps or flaws,
something that causes pain. As the Indians, whose culture was taken from them.

Carlyle cannot connect to other people, but he finally learns the lesson of the vanishing
point once he discovers pain.

Everyone has something to overcome, some pain to release. By releasing and overcoming
it, the self becomes less important. As in the vanishing point, the further you get from the self
the closer you get to the other selfs, almost merging. Each is a mirror to another and by seeing
yourelf and the other, both learn.