Example Of A Short Story Essay

The man had shielded his face with his mother’s raincoat, yet a photo was snapped of him slumping down into the car waiting outside the court. Later his white face adorned the white people’s TV screens. The same photograph was used in several newspapers, which included most complimentary commentary inside. They said that even though the charges of him were horrifying, which made him a potentially horrible man only by being charged, the woman who charged him had committed perjury during either of the two trials and there was not sufficient evidence for her claims, and thus the potentiality of him being horrible was lowered significantly. They concluded that the man was not found guilty. The picture the media painted of the case seemed so final …show more content…
His being seemed to radiate gray, teeming with faulty life. He himself couldn’t change it. Someone else had to but they weren’t available. He lay in his bed in safety, waiting, he didn’t sleep, he didn’t think. The words of his sentence reiterated in him, an ardent present. The press had stopped knocking on the door with interviews; his parents had answered all the questions for him in attempts to maintain their status. The man waited for someone, for something; …show more content…
It is biased and told from the his perspective and “mind”. I continued on one of the main themes; the prevalent racist attitude in a country with apartheid as law and the privileges and conceit of the white people. I will explain how I showed this in my text: In the first paragraph I show that the media kind of ostracizes the man but because of the his color, kind of pardons his crime. Thus victimizing the white man and his family. As written by Nadine Gordimer the man’s father, (somewhat prominent in the area), says to the press after the court’s decision, “I will try and carry on as best I can to hold my head up in the district.” This clearly shows how he turns it around and uses the lack of evidence in his favor.
I show that the mother pities her son when he is at home in the second paragraph. And I also show how the parents have protected their son but mostly their own pride and conceit by not letting him talking to the press.

This might not have anything to do with showing my appreciation for the short story but to make sense of it all I made the story take this strange turn. He craved forgiveness and forgave himself. He entered mania, and could not control himself. He latched on to old memories. Ultimately he went