Analyzing Ernest Hemingway's Short Stories

Narrator: The great are great, the weak are weak all while the weird get weirder. Karl, the main sentient being of this macabre tale, lives through life like most of us, through a scope of ignorance of their impending forthcomings. He is seen through the eyes of his friends and of his bystanding, on lookers. Karl occupies his time speaking to his friends. His friends are always with him. always. Karl loves his friends. His friends are indifferent--indifferent in the sense that they do not comprehend the plane of reality that Karl lives on, they see him as more of a bystander to their own existence than as a friend. They do not understand the concept of friendship due to the fact that they are common house flies. Karl speaks to his friends, …show more content…
In the society we live in people face challenges and the man you saw has also faced challenges. The challenges he has lived through probably created an environment where committing a crime was his only option. The crime that he committed might not even be something morally wrong, laws are socially created and sometimes conflict with life styles or societal norms and because of his arrest and his now current label as a criminal labeling theory would say that he is statically more likely to commit more crimes and more dangerous crimes because he is now labeled as a criminal. This justice system is corrupt and is set up to oppress those who have limited access to socially 'proper ' social intuitions like education, and family. --------------Karl watches Hobbes land on a apple and eat it. Karl 's subconscious interprets this as:
-----------Hobbes: This oppressive and corrupt system is needed to sustain healthy societal standards and norms that keep us from becoming savages and killing each other with complete lack of respect for personal property. This structural political system serves a function to the embitterment of our society even though there are down falls the pros outweigh the