This essay is going to be an analysis of the short story “The death of Tommy Grimes” written by R.J. Meaddough, and was published in 1962. I am going to write a summary of the text, and I am analyzing the setting, characters, language, narrator, theme, message, and then I am making an comparison to the story “Just Like That” by Micheal Richards. The title is a little taste of what is going to happen in the story, because it is about how a boy becomes a man, but then his father tells him that every time he kills, he dies a little inside. The story starts of in medias res, we hear about Tommy and his Pa waiting calmly in the woods hunting for animals. Then Tommy gets a flashback of when his Pa used many hours to teach him to shoot, track
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It is a 3th person narrator that follows Tommy, and tells everything from his point of view, you also hear, what Tommy thinks. Example: ”He laughed in his mind when he thought of the last time when Pa had gone down to the hut for a drink with the “boys”, as he called them.” The language is also detailed, because there are many adjectives and imagery. Example: “They felt like sticks of wood, stilts that somebody had glued on his legs.” There are also more difficult/old-fashioned words, like yes tidy, rattling, chain gang …show more content…
In the start Tommy just does what his father tells him, but when he realizes that he killed a man, and he seems skeptical by his father’s judgment. At the same time he loses his innocence, because he killed a man, and this also made him more mature. He does not think like a kid any longer, because he experienced death (the rough and tough world). Now he starts to think more deeply into things that his father have told him. The message of the story is that hunting and killing does not make you a man, but it makes you realize that a lot of other things that you probably would not think of normally. This story is very similar to a story called “Just Like That” by Micheal Richards.
Both short stories “Just Like That” and “The Death Of Tommy Grimes” have some similarities as both of the main characters go hunting. They go hunting in hope of becoming men, but the main difference between the two, is that Tommy kills a man, and not an animal like the boy from “Just Like That”. And this means that Tommy is more influenced by this hunt, because he killed a human being, and he killed him
It is a 3th person narrator that follows Tommy, and tells everything from his point of view, you also hear, what Tommy thinks. Example: ”He laughed in his mind when he thought of the last time when Pa had gone down to the hut for a drink with the “boys”, as he called them.” The language is also detailed, because there are many adjectives and imagery. Example: “They felt like sticks of wood, stilts that somebody had glued on his legs.” There are also more difficult/old-fashioned words, like yes tidy, rattling, chain gang …show more content…
In the start Tommy just does what his father tells him, but when he realizes that he killed a man, and he seems skeptical by his father’s judgment. At the same time he loses his innocence, because he killed a man, and this also made him more mature. He does not think like a kid any longer, because he experienced death (the rough and tough world). Now he starts to think more deeply into things that his father have told him. The message of the story is that hunting and killing does not make you a man, but it makes you realize that a lot of other things that you probably would not think of normally. This story is very similar to a story called “Just Like That” by Micheal Richards.
Both short stories “Just Like That” and “The Death Of Tommy Grimes” have some similarities as both of the main characters go hunting. They go hunting in hope of becoming men, but the main difference between the two, is that Tommy kills a man, and not an animal like the boy from “Just Like That”. And this means that Tommy is more influenced by this hunt, because he killed a human being, and he killed him