Gabriel Gandara Marie Zaiens Dev Com 36A Mon. Wed. 10:35 November 9, 2015

Characters Tom Huntsman/major The narrator/major Tom’s partner/minor Tom’s daughter/minor Tom’s wife/minor Drug addicts/minor

Setting The short story is taken place in a variety of different places In the beginning the story takes place in a park where the main character Tom, is pushing his daughter on a swing to build an emotional bond for the reader Then the story takes place in a doctors office to show conflict between the narrator and Tom After the story takes place at a bank robbery, Tom becomes guilt ridden over the loss of his partner. Finally it takes place on a boat in the middle of the ocean

Plot Narrator describing how Tom’s life went through a spiraling downhill after his daughter had died Tom turns whiskey and eventually led to him and his wife to have a divorce. “All he had left was his job, his liquor and a burning desire for revenge on the person who had taken his partner.” Tom interrupts the story making things very difficult to understand. Tom tries to pick several fights with the reader Tom and the narrator were at battle to tell what really happen to Tom’s partner and how Tom was really feeling. As Tom and his partner capture drug addicts from a bank robbery, Tom leaves one suspect unwatched. The drug addict pulls out a gun and fires a round into Tom’s partners head. Because Tom left the addict unwatched it led him to feel like a prisoner of his own mind as the guilt eats away at him. Tom imagines shooting two rounds in the addict’s torso killing him and setting him free from years of guilt. Tom and the narrator change the story where tom is on the boat with lots of topless women and booze in the middle of the ocean being set free from guilt

Conflict Internal conflict Tom’s partner was shot and killed by a drug addict whom Tom was suppose to be watching while his partner talks to the other suspect. Leaving Tom with guilt making him feel like a prisoner of his own mind.

Theme Self forgiveness

Theory Cop/Army Lost daughter/has a daughter Lost wife/has a wife Guilty for not protecting his partner/possibility Using the story for forgiveness/possible

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