When the barber recognizes him and trembles, when the captain announces “not one will live,” describing the four rebels hanging naked, dead, when he sees the veins popping out of the skin, “waiting to be slit,” when he turns around to say something to the barber, there’s numerous uses of suspense. In the end of the story, when the captain turns around to say something to the barber, you get mixed emotions, and ask yourself about the feelings he was having. “They told me that you’d kill me. I came to find out. But killing isn’t easy. You can take my word for it.” In a way, the author shows remorse and guilt, but stuck-up, selfishness at the same time. You wonder if he wishes to be killed. Or if he would use it as an excuse to kill the barber? Or even if he knew the barber was too morally weak to do
When the barber recognizes him and trembles, when the captain announces “not one will live,” describing the four rebels hanging naked, dead, when he sees the veins popping out of the skin, “waiting to be slit,” when he turns around to say something to the barber, there’s numerous uses of suspense. In the end of the story, when the captain turns around to say something to the barber, you get mixed emotions, and ask yourself about the feelings he was having. “They told me that you’d kill me. I came to find out. But killing isn’t easy. You can take my word for it.” In a way, the author shows remorse and guilt, but stuck-up, selfishness at the same time. You wonder if he wishes to be killed. Or if he would use it as an excuse to kill the barber? Or even if he knew the barber was too morally weak to do