Childers
Hunter Childers
Hensley
English 11/Fourth period
08 January 2018
Part 1: Plot Summary The Boarded Window is a short story about a small log cabin in the middle if the woods right outside of Cincinnati Ohio around 1830. The man that lives there is a fifty year old man known as Murlock, he has lived here with his wife since he built this cabin one day during his youth. One day Murlock came home to find his beloved wife extremely ill. But due to the lack of doctors he decided he was going to take matters into his own hands and try to nurse her back to health. Three days later his wife dies because he did not having the needed supplies to take care of her. Murdock then begins to dig her grave and build her casket. Murdock was not yet sad about his wife dying he said “i shall have to make her coffin and dig the grave;then i shall miss her,when she is no longer in sight.but now she is dead,of course,but it's alright it must be alright somehow things cannot be as bad as they seem.” …show more content…
After finishing everything he was going to do , then sits down in a chair by her dead body on a table. Moments later he places his head down on the edge of the table and falls asleep. Then through the window he hears a scream he doesn't move but instead tries seeing what is going on through the darkness. Hours later he wakes up with all of his senses alerted confused on what had been in his house to waken him he then realizes that her body is gone and nowhere to be found but he isn't able to move his arms or legs or speak words no matter how hard he tries. Something then throws his wife's dead body against the wall with outstanding force. After this he then stands up runs grabs his rifle and fires off a random
Hunter Childers
Hensley
English 11/Fourth period
08 January 2018
Part 1: Plot Summary The Boarded Window is a short story about a small log cabin in the middle if the woods right outside of Cincinnati Ohio around 1830. The man that lives there is a fifty year old man known as Murlock, he has lived here with his wife since he built this cabin one day during his youth. One day Murlock came home to find his beloved wife extremely ill. But due to the lack of doctors he decided he was going to take matters into his own hands and try to nurse her back to health. Three days later his wife dies because he did not having the needed supplies to take care of her. Murdock then begins to dig her grave and build her casket. Murdock was not yet sad about his wife dying he said “i shall have to make her coffin and dig the grave;then i shall miss her,when she is no longer in sight.but now she is dead,of course,but it's alright it must be alright somehow things cannot be as bad as they seem.” …show more content…
After finishing everything he was going to do , then sits down in a chair by her dead body on a table. Moments later he places his head down on the edge of the table and falls asleep. Then through the window he hears a scream he doesn't move but instead tries seeing what is going on through the darkness. Hours later he wakes up with all of his senses alerted confused on what had been in his house to waken him he then realizes that her body is gone and nowhere to be found but he isn't able to move his arms or legs or speak words no matter how hard he tries. Something then throws his wife's dead body against the wall with outstanding force. After this he then stands up runs grabs his rifle and fires off a random