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Concerning the plot of the story, the author brings the impression of the veteran’s day, which proceeds and becomes pronounced at the end for the participating characters. Particularly, the area around the beaver dam becomes the central point, a place where a number of old rocks could be found and most of the actions took place.
Characters
Some of the characters in the story include Prince Valiant whom together with the pale boy entered the mudroom. Robin is another dominant character in the story and the one who mostly featured during his interaction with Suzanne throughout the story (Saunders, 2011).
Suzanne Bledsoe was another dominant character, who was new in the home after she came from Montereal, yet knew how to talk. Notably, Robin thought that Nether could probably kidnap her since she had not known her in the area (Saunders, 2011). He had shown some interest in the manner she talked.
Don Eber was another character in the story. He was remembered to have posed near the pond for some rest after a tiring moment and one of the dominant characters (Saunders, 2011). Moreover, Tommy and Jodi were also other two characters who featured prominently in the short story.
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Settings and Point of View
The story’s setting was strange unique, but a mere fictions in nature, almost similar to the other works of the author. The scenes of the incident kept on changing from one environment to the other (Saunders, 2011). The story started on a vague way that the initial events seemed unrelated. However, the major characters including Robin, Suzanne, Eber, Tommy, and Jodi among others interacted in a dramatic manner that gave the fiction its meaning. In reality, the structure and style are unique and also similar.
The point of view, from which the story was told, was fiction. The author seems to have a number of issues to address various environments from where he could express his opinion and a number of characters to make his ideas work in a manner he wanted (Saunders, 2011).
Themes of the Story
Some of the themes in the story include the following. First, the theme of torture is evidently depicted in the story. For example, the author talks of Toi Foi who had a deadly forearm (Saunders, 2011). This kind of forearm could be used in inflicting pain to other people. In addition, the place where the people were, especially the doorway had an implacable rock, which the author argued that it could trap the people inside leading to suffocation (Saunders, 2011). Sometimes, he was put to lie facing up at the clouds as they unleashed their torture on him. This is also stressed when Robin said that certainly it was the instance for someone to die (Saunders, 2011). Perhaps, this resulted from the sufferings he witnessed.
Abandonment is another theme in the story. Here, Suzanne Bledsoe was left a lone in the house where she plunges into conversation with the people she did not previously know. The story also indicated that Kip Flemish and Dad probably switched spouses and abandoned them, before they fled to California (Saunders, 2011). In fact, they acknowledged the sins and decided to move before the law could catch up with them (Saunders, 2011). As well, Robin found the abandoned Eber’s coat that was on ice, at the black water edge (Saunders, 2011).
Persuasion was another theme in the story. For instance, Suzanne tried to persuade Robin of her sorrow for the so called old poor guy (Saunders, 2011). In essence, she thought that it was not his fault to fall in the trap, but Robin thought that the person was a fool, arguing that Suzanne was somewhat young to understand him. In another occurrence, Robin tried to persuade Suzanne that he did not have any intention to cause harm on her (Saunders, 2011).
She also tried to persuade him of her thought that being able to cry is part of the human’s health, as this makes one to be in closer touch with his/her feelings and able to express emotions that would otherwise be dangerous (Saunders, 2011). In addition, persuasion is depicted especially to the potential consumers in the region during this era through being advised to make the right choices on their consumption habit, lets it turn to be disastrous (Saunders, 2011).
One Aspect of Interest
The most interesting part is when Eber went on his one knee and asked he kid that “he had to get up, had to get moving or he could lose his legs, he could die” (Saunders, 2011). It seemed like fatherly advice to the child as well as a warning for the child’s adamant behavior. Unfortunately, the child did not act according to the Eber’s directive (Saunders, 2011). All the kid could do was to stare at him, blink and maintain his position. In an arrogant move, Eber grabbed this child using his coat then turned him over and roughly made him sit upright (Saunders, 2011).
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It became interesting to learn that the kid shivered helplessly, despite his earlier adamancy to follow the simple fatherly directives (Saunders, 2011). In a turn of events, he decided to warm the kid up once more, through hugging, and making the child to lie on him, a situation the author called “popsicle-on-popsicle” (Saunders, 2011). This was the moment that Eber thought of his coat, which was lying on ice at the black water edge. Indeed, this was an interesting occurrence in the story.