Andy wanted to get married, he wanted to have kids and move in with Laura. He wanted to live, he did not want to die. These are all the thoughts running through Andy's mind while he “lay on the sidewalk with the March rain drilling his jacket,” says the narrator. In Evan Hunter's “On The Sidewalk Bleeding” we encounter a teenage boy struggling to find his identity in an alley full of fear and regret. We follow Andy, as all of his thoughts and emotions changes during the final hour of his life as a naive and persistent teenager. Since there is a third person omniscient, we can identify all of the different narrative elements in this story. The De La Salle Activity Booklet refers to conflict as, “Struggle between opposing forces.” In this short
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Setting is, “the general locale or site, social environment and historical time in which the action of the story, poem, or play take place.” says the De La Salle Activity Booklet. The first sentence in the story says, “The boy lay on the sidewalk bleeding in the rain.” This sets the whole story and already makes the reader feel sorry for whoever it is bleeding in the rain. In this story we repeatedly hear how he lay on the sidewalk bleeding because every time we read a scene that talks about setting we can naturally picture it in our minds. It says, “the March rain drilling his jacket and drilling his body and washing away the blood that poured from his open wound.” It also says, “It was 11:13pm.” This is how we would normally see gang violence. Late at night in the rain where no one would be around. We can also imagine the person getting stabbed laying in the rain surrounded by a pool of his own blood. The setting of this story is very gloomy and spooky. Without this certain setting the book wouldn't have the same power when you read it, making the readers feel emotional after the first paragraph. The rain is the key to the story because if Andy was lying in a flower patch we wouldn't feel that bad because then we would think of sun and green grass and that usually makes people feel happy. But, Evan Hunter gave us an alley way at 11:13pm and rain, creating a puddle of blood beside a teenage boy on the ground. These are two different settings and with the first one the story would probably be very
Setting is, “the general locale or site, social environment and historical time in which the action of the story, poem, or play take place.” says the De La Salle Activity Booklet. The first sentence in the story says, “The boy lay on the sidewalk bleeding in the rain.” This sets the whole story and already makes the reader feel sorry for whoever it is bleeding in the rain. In this story we repeatedly hear how he lay on the sidewalk bleeding because every time we read a scene that talks about setting we can naturally picture it in our minds. It says, “the March rain drilling his jacket and drilling his body and washing away the blood that poured from his open wound.” It also says, “It was 11:13pm.” This is how we would normally see gang violence. Late at night in the rain where no one would be around. We can also imagine the person getting stabbed laying in the rain surrounded by a pool of his own blood. The setting of this story is very gloomy and spooky. Without this certain setting the book wouldn't have the same power when you read it, making the readers feel emotional after the first paragraph. The rain is the key to the story because if Andy was lying in a flower patch we wouldn't feel that bad because then we would think of sun and green grass and that usually makes people feel happy. But, Evan Hunter gave us an alley way at 11:13pm and rain, creating a puddle of blood beside a teenage boy on the ground. These are two different settings and with the first one the story would probably be very