Analyzing William Faulkner's 'Trials Of The Endured'

Trials of the Endured

A light blue sky with a touch of white is granting the brightness for the picture taken at some point in daylight. Still grass and the idle trees cover the setting of what appeared be to a neighborhood, indicated by a white, urban house and miscellaneous items that presents itself in the background. Right in front of this picture, a young boy in a navy-blue bathroom robe is playing with a fallen tree branch and a leaf that’s a quarter of his size. His posture ensnared my eyes’ attention. With his back turned, he carried the tree branch by his waist just like a noble warrior from another country far from the setting of this picture. The setting plays a very special role to, as it is where the story takes place.

The detailing of the picture was meant to resemble, of course, an obvious home that was supposed to give the child a chance to start over again. Even the setting, which might have hinted at being gloomy, is what he can call a new day to come out and play. He is, after all, still a child that has yet to make the greatest of memories because the home he now lives in was
From the picture’s description, even though it was still around the time of morning he “played about in the rectory home in Lisbon, Maine, ever so tucked in the neighborhood so different than the woods he claimed to be his own”. It is in my own opinion that the picture is trying to represent pathos; trying to cling the readers by showing them what might have happened to them. If all the evidence points out to pathos, then that means it tries to represent the emotional toll that the child had faced during most of his childhood, from his rough start to living in a nearby forest to a small urban home; constantly changing his perception to his surroundings. I might feel that he might not be able to live in the same spot for too