I feel like in the beginning his uncle is trying to scare him by saying that a police shot a boy from his childhood, like if he feels that his in the wrong path and his trying to lead him toward another direction. But his aunt in the other hand in a way says no it would be impossible for him to be in the wrong sort of crowd. This is when she mentions that he would be staying with her in the hotel and his uncle kind of says oh why did you chose a hotel where near everything in town like saying his going to do something he shouldn't or get involved in something bad. But then the aunt all of the sudden says something strange, that made me question.
Something unique about this stanza was that all of the sudden his aunt says "If you want to be a writer, why don't you go get a pen and paper and write down all these lies?"
Does this mean he was imaging this all along or did he make up about the part that his family shooting the next door neighbor's door. What did she imply about "writing down all these lies?"
Was it that she believed that he was incapable of doing any harm? This sections uses the two characters speaking to each other and also uses flashbacks, because he explains what happened a thanksgiving.
Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
I agree with you. I also wondered if he was imaging or made the part up about the shooting.
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