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Brittany Baldwin
Hensley
English 11/second period
27 Februrary 2018
Part 12: Rough Draft#1 Ambrose Bierce short story The Boarded Window is very interesting, when you read The Boarded Window you think that it’s just about a man and his wife that had pass when he was young but it’s very grim at the middle and the end of the story. Bierce new how to get the reader interested in the story. At the end of the story he really threw off the reader, in the short story The Boarded Window The fell ill and had fell into a coma like state and Murlock and the reader thought his wife was dead but that night a panther had broke through the boarded window in there cabin and attacked his wife and she had tired to fight back and she had bit …show more content…
Themes that run throughout the short story The Boarded Window are, death, supernatural, and loneliness. In most of the short story, there is death.In Short Stories for Students, Jenifer Smith states, “One day Murlock was found in his cabin, dead”( Bierce 2). Murlock´s wife had died young, after Murlock died he was buried nexted to his wife. In The Boarded Window there is death at the beginning of the story and the end. Murlock was isolated in the woods there was no one for miles. After his wife had passed away he stayed in his house away from civilization. He only went into to get food.
In the Short Story for Students, Jenifer Smith States, “At the same time he heard, or imagined he heard, a light, soft step and then another. The sound were as bare feet walking upon the floor! He was afraid beyond the power to cry out or move”. Murlock thought it was the ghost of his wife walking around the house, he was so scared that he just sat there in fear of what would happen if he had move. He heard a scream and got his rifle and fired it and the flash that came from the gun shined off of the panther and his wife after that he had fell asleep and didn’t wake till …show more content…
No one could remember a time when it was not. And no one knew why it had been closed” (Bierce 2). No one had ever seen the window open. The window never opened until the panther had came through the window the night his wife died. In Short for Stories for Students, Milne Liamarck States, “The panther is then a symbol of the worlds hostility toward those who fail to interact with it normally, who push it away or attack it”(Golgfarb 13). Since Murlock had lived in islation with his wife he never talked to anybody but his wife after his wife had died he still lived in
Brittany Baldwin
Hensley
English 11/second period
27 Februrary 2018
Part 12: Rough Draft#1 Ambrose Bierce short story The Boarded Window is very interesting, when you read The Boarded Window you think that it’s just about a man and his wife that had pass when he was young but it’s very grim at the middle and the end of the story. Bierce new how to get the reader interested in the story. At the end of the story he really threw off the reader, in the short story The Boarded Window The fell ill and had fell into a coma like state and Murlock and the reader thought his wife was dead but that night a panther had broke through the boarded window in there cabin and attacked his wife and she had tired to fight back and she had bit …show more content…
Themes that run throughout the short story The Boarded Window are, death, supernatural, and loneliness. In most of the short story, there is death.In Short Stories for Students, Jenifer Smith states, “One day Murlock was found in his cabin, dead”( Bierce 2). Murlock´s wife had died young, after Murlock died he was buried nexted to his wife. In The Boarded Window there is death at the beginning of the story and the end. Murlock was isolated in the woods there was no one for miles. After his wife had passed away he stayed in his house away from civilization. He only went into to get food.
In the Short Story for Students, Jenifer Smith States, “At the same time he heard, or imagined he heard, a light, soft step and then another. The sound were as bare feet walking upon the floor! He was afraid beyond the power to cry out or move”. Murlock thought it was the ghost of his wife walking around the house, he was so scared that he just sat there in fear of what would happen if he had move. He heard a scream and got his rifle and fired it and the flash that came from the gun shined off of the panther and his wife after that he had fell asleep and didn’t wake till …show more content…
No one could remember a time when it was not. And no one knew why it had been closed” (Bierce 2). No one had ever seen the window open. The window never opened until the panther had came through the window the night his wife died. In Short for Stories for Students, Milne Liamarck States, “The panther is then a symbol of the worlds hostility toward those who fail to interact with it normally, who push it away or attack it”(Golgfarb 13). Since Murlock had lived in islation with his wife he never talked to anybody but his wife after his wife had died he still lived in