Analysis Of The Evening By Carolyn Forche

Carolyn Forche successfully integrates the elements of mystery, surprise and detail to comprehensively elude that the colonel is very threatening.
Firstly, in lines one to eight, the narrator describes the various details she sees to the readers. Carolyn notes, “Broken bottles were embedded in the walls around the house to scoop the kneecaps from a man's legs or cut his hands to lace.” The walls are very coarse having the potential to severely mutilate a person’s body. Then the speaker sees a pistol next to the cushion beside the colonel, and gratings that bar the windows. This makes it seem that the narrator is trapped within the colonel’s home and is under his command. While outside, she metaphorically compares the moon to a lamp that