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Gabriel Gandara
Marie Zaiens
Dev Com 36A
Mon. Wed. 10:35
November 9, 2015
Characters
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Tom Huntsman/major
The narrator/major
Tom’s partner/minor
Tom’s daughter/minor
Tom’s wife/minor
Drug addicts/minor
Setting
• The short story is taken place in a variety of different
places
• In the beginning the story takes place in a park where the
main character Tom, is pushing his daughter on a swing
to build an emotional bond for the reader
• Then the story takes place in a doctors office to show
conflict between the narrator and Tom
• After the story takes place at a bank robbery, Tom
becomes guilt ridden over the loss of his partner.
• Finally it takes place on a boat in the middle of the ocean
Plot
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Narrator describing how Tom’s life went through a spiraling downhill after his daughter had
died
Tom turns whiskey and eventually led to him and his wife to have a divorce.
“All he had left was his job, his liquor and a burning desire for revenge on the person who
had taken his partner.”
Tom interrupts the story making things very difficult to understand. Tom tries to pick several
fights with the reader
Tom and the narrator were at battle to tell what really happen to Tom’s partner and how Tom
was really feeling.
As Tom and his partner capture drug addicts from a bank robbery, Tom leaves one suspect
unwatched.
The drug addict pulls out a gun and fires a round into Tom’s partners head. Because Tom left
the addict unwatched it led him to feel like a prisoner of his own mind as the guilt eats away
at him.
Tom imagines shooting two rounds in the addict’s torso killing him and setting him free from
years of guilt.
Tom and the narrator change the story where tom is on the boat with lots of topless women
and booze in the middle of the ocean being set free from guilt
Conflict
• Internal conflict
• Tom’s partner was shot and killed by a drug
addict whom Tom was suppose to be watching
while his partner talks to the other suspect.
Leaving Tom with guilt making him feel like a
prisoner of his own mind.
Theme
• Self forgiveness
Theory
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Cop/Army
Lost daughter/has a daughter
Lost wife/has a wife
Guilty for not protecting his partner/possibility
Using the story for forgiveness/possible
Copy of book
• https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ZYe
eAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=re
ader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP1