Monday, February 18, 2008
A Troubled Child
In the short story The Drowning Incident, there's a boy who i think is no more than 15 years old. I don't really like him all that much. He kills a cricket, feeds it to a black widow, then spits on it. He seems like a very troubled child. In the end, it seems as though he has some issues with the baby being the family. He also had some puppies and had to give them away, so I think that when finding the puppies at the creek it brings back memories of having dogs. I'm not quite sure who he is waiting for, but this kid has problems. To lay a dead puppy in the bed with a baby is a problem.
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I agree the kid had problems, but then again, in the same situation anyone might display some pretty odd behavior. I do think, though, that the puppies in the creek were his puppies. (Well, not literally his puppies ... you understand what I mean. ;-)) The first time I read the story, I came away definitely feeling that the kid was pretty weird. But reading it a second time I felt a little better about him, like he was really put upon by everyone around him. But reading your blog has sort of swung my thinking back around to 'this kid is kind of weird'.
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