Bonfire

One Saturday evening, my friends and I decided to have a bonfire in my backyard. Well it isn't exactly a real bonfire, it's more like a fire in a fire pit. We made smores and all we can hear is the sound of the fire crackling over the silence of the night. The crackling sound was complimented with the pieces of ash popping out of the fire wood like kettle corn popping out of a hot pot. Then one of my friends mentioned that the sound of the crackling fire is actually created by the air pockets present inside of the fire wood. And for some odd reason, I began to picture people inside of the air pockets exploding out due to the fire. The chemical reaction that is taken place inside the log must be chaotic and very unstable, just like the people in Thebes in the play Oedipus Rex. In the beginning of the play Thebes is suffering from a plague, which we can compare to the already lit bonfire caused by the death of the King. When we get deeper into the play more is revealed about the murderer of the King and causes Oedipus to become more curious as well as alarmed. Teiresias, the blind prophet, who tells Oedipus about the King's killer, acts like the lighter fuel that we used to create a bigger fire. The more Teiresias tells Oedipus about the murder, the more Oedipus is troubled. The more lighter fuel we put into the fire, the bigger and hotter the fire gets.