Finally after Charlie about stole her shot, her father asked, "do you want to shoot it, pumpkin?" After a a little hesitation, and another rant from Charlie, Andy says yes, and shoots. After being very hesitant to shoot, she finally stuck him, and while all the men were dancing around celebreating, Andy though to herself "What did I just do." Andy's first step in the coming of age process was complete. Unlike all the men she had tried to not let down, she felt guilty about killing an innocent creature.
The father was mad at his wife for what she had done, so he saw it as his wife threw their sweet little girl to the wolves. Was this really what happened? Well the husband actually never knew what happened, he just assumed the worst. Since the husband kept repeating this story over and over the son only could picture “Aanakwad swing the girl lightly over
Then, she explains her first experience shooting a gun when she was six years old. Her twin sister was fascinated by guns, but Sarah hated guns so much that she whispered “Satan, I rebuke thee” when holding the gun. Her parents allowed her to make her own choices, including not engaging in family activities that included “little death sticks” such as hunting. During the Reagan administration Sarah and her father bickered over nuclear proliferation, Contra aid and Communism. As Sarah got older she
To show him he can’t keep being a bully. When Frank finds out that Kenny shooting that dog was only taking orders, he let Tub know that he basically shot his own friend for no reason. So the consequence of Kenny’s bullying? Tub shoots him in his stomach. Due to their where bout’s it takes them on a long road trip to find a hospital because they couldn’t get an ambulance out that far in the country and all was occupied.
Eventually Jenny was lying in a pool of her blood dead. Dave immediately buried the gun at the foot of a tree and tried to come up with a logical explanation. Mr. Hawkins and a couple of men buried the mule with the excuse that the point of the plow stuck Jenny and she bleed out. Dave’s mother and father showed up and asked what happened. He tried to lie but his mother knew the truth.
In the beginning of the short story the man recounts the memory of his father killing a bird. He had never been a huntsman before, but for some reason this experience caused him major emotional trauma. The boy was so distressed that he still remembered what happened even at his married age. “It was like watching an animal whose vitality was rendered more intense by the very fact of my watching it.” He becomes fixated on seeing his wife become a wild woman who signified intimacy, privacy, and secrecy. One morning he sees her walk out of the apartment and mentions, “I thought again of
Old Mother Savage being able to survive on her own is a skill that I do not think is given enough credit. Now the other “Skill” that Old Mother Savage has was her ability to be so cold hearted and cunning as well as her ability to hold back emotions. After receiving the letter of her sons death and it being dated three weeks back “She did not cry, but stood motionless, so stricken, so stupefied, that for the moment she did not suffer” As she was preparing a rabbit the four Prussians caught she was filled with rage thought of her son and this is where I believe her plan to kill them started. Her asking about their names playing it off as just a curiosity thing and asking for addresses was brilliant of Old Mother Savage. Later that night after she had did the deed and set ablaze to the soldiers and told the crowd and German
An example of why i felt the way i did is when Gatsby is in the passenger seat, and Daisy runs over Tom’s secrect lover, Myrtle, killing her. Gatsby is willing to take the blame for her “Of course I’ll say I was [driving],” he tells Nick. Yet despite of being outside her window all night long, he never gets so much as a thank you from her. In fact, he gets killed for that very thing he takes a blame for, when Mr. Wilson takes his revenge by killing Gatsby she doesn't even attend his funeral. This was the man who, days earlier, she “loved.” She and Tom leave town, retreating into their “vast carelessness” and heading to “wherever rich people go to be together,” according to Nick’s bitter
For example Lennie was in the barn felling Curleys wife’s hair which was his first mistake then when she pulled away he grabbed at he to keep quite but as he did that he closed her airways and killed her. This was a honest mistake on his part he just didn’t want her to scream rape like what happened at his first job. Raymond made the mistake of telling Charlie’s girlfriend that Charlie was using him. He also made the mistake of the hooker making a date with him at 10 but she just wanted the time. Both honest mistakes that he didn’t even know he made.
One night Jonathan and his family are robbed. Showing them that doe the war is officially over it still goes on between the people. In the story “The Open Window”, “going hunting” is taken literally because some of the characters do in fact go hunting. In this story the fifteen year old niece tricks the guest into believing that the father son and dog died on a hunting trip and that the wife/mother leaves the window open as if they were to return. But as the story goes they cannot because they’re dead.