The story “A Kind of Murder” by Hugh Pentecost is about a boy named Pentecost who stands up for a deaf teacher who really needs help, but then doesn’t help when he’s needed most. In “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez, an average barber is debating whether or not he will slit his customer’s throat. The barber wants to keep his honor and the integrity of his business, but also feels like he owes it to his people to kill their worst enemy when he has the chance. “A Kind of Murder” and “Lather and Nothing Else” are very different stories when their settings and resolutions are compared; however, they have an extremely similar conflict.
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As he’s getting his shave, he talks about all the people he’s killed and how he plans to kill more people. This really gets the barber thinking about how he could take the Captain’s life. It was a hard decision to make because the barber knows that everyone in his town is expecting him to kill Captain Torres and is under a lot of pressure. After seriously thinking about it and about how he could potentially do it, he decides that it’s not worth sacrificing his reputation. The main conflict in the story is in the head of the barber. He is deciding whether or not he should slit Captain Torres’ throat and kill him or not. The settings in the stories are different because they take place in different countries, different time periods, and just different places with different environments in general. The solutions in the stories are also so different they could be called opposites. In “A Kind of Murder”, Pentecost makes a choice that most people would say is wrong and he is peer pressured into making his choice. This is opposite of “Lather and Nothing Else”, because the barber makes a choice that most people would say is the right thing to do. It’s also opposite of the solution in “A Kind of Murder”, because the barber is not peer pressured. The people in his town who are on the same side of the revolution would expect him to kill the leader of the other side if he could, but
“A Kind of Murder” takes place at a boarding school, ends with the main character falling victim to …show more content…
As he’s getting his shave, he talks about all the people he’s killed and how he plans to kill more people. This really gets the barber thinking about how he could take the Captain’s life. It was a hard decision to make because the barber knows that everyone in his town is expecting him to kill Captain Torres and is under a lot of pressure. After seriously thinking about it and about how he could potentially do it, he decides that it’s not worth sacrificing his reputation. The main conflict in the story is in the head of the barber. He is deciding whether or not he should slit Captain Torres’ throat and kill him or not. The settings in the stories are different because they take place in different countries, different time periods, and just different places with different environments in general. The solutions in the stories are also so different they could be called opposites. In “A Kind of Murder”, Pentecost makes a choice that most people would say is wrong and he is peer pressured into making his choice. This is opposite of “Lather and Nothing Else”, because the barber makes a choice that most people would say is the right thing to do. It’s also opposite of the solution in “A Kind of Murder”, because the barber is not peer pressured. The people in his town who are on the same side of the revolution would expect him to kill the leader of the other side if he could, but