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The Hurt Man
“The Hurt Man “is a short story written by Wendell Berry taking place in the late 1880s.
The childhood memories of the man Mat Feltner are described from a third person narrator whose omniscience is limited to Mat. The fact that the narrator is able to give away information regarding much later events such as “she would begin to matter to him a great deal in a dozen of years, and after that she would matter to him all his life “of course referring to Margaret; Mat’s coming wife gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the current events with the future events in mind to reach a greater understanding and later conclusion of the story.
“The Hurt Man “takes on a very traditional short story form. First the characters are described then the setting. After that the banalities and dangers of Port William are portrayed followed by a trigged to lead on the story in a dramatic order: a hurt man arrives bleeding at the house of the five year old narrator and his mother.
At first the title of the story seems easily analyzable and one might think that the story it called “The Hurt Man” only because of the hurt man it among other things revolves around. But I believe it could also be referring to changes in Mat and how his innocence is taken away when learning of pain through the mother’s care of the man.
The setting of the story plays a decisive role as well. As stated initially, Mat grew up in a rather tumultuous and harsh setting where disputes were mostly settled out of court with violence; a town in which the “proof of mortality would be given in blood”. Here a noteworthy word “mortality “occurs for the first time in the story and almost from the beginning. The usage of the word mortality later becomes an essential part of the story and Port William. It is also told that the three deceased siblings of Mat are resting at the town’s graveyard and their headstones became an immortal proof of their tough and short life in Port William.
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“The Hurt Man “is a short story written by Wendell Berry taking place in the late 1880s.
The childhood memories of the man Mat Feltner are described from a third person narrator whose omniscience is limited to Mat. The fact that the narrator is able to give away information regarding much later events such as “she would begin to matter to him a great deal in a dozen of years, and after that she would matter to him all his life “of course referring to Margaret; Mat’s coming wife gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the current events with the future events in mind to reach a greater understanding and later conclusion of the story.
“The Hurt Man “takes on a very traditional short story form. First the characters are described then the setting. After that the banalities and dangers of Port William are portrayed followed by a trigged to lead on the story in a dramatic order: a hurt man arrives bleeding at the house of the five year old narrator and his mother.
At first the title of the story seems easily analyzable and one might think that the story it called “The Hurt Man” only because of the hurt man it among other things revolves around. But I believe it could also be referring to changes in Mat and how his innocence is taken away when learning of pain through the mother’s care of the man.
The setting of the story plays a decisive role as well. As stated initially, Mat grew up in a rather tumultuous and harsh setting where disputes were mostly settled out of court with violence; a town in which the “proof of mortality would be given in blood”. Here a noteworthy word “mortality “occurs for the first time in the story and almost from the beginning. The usage of the word mortality later becomes an essential part of the story and Port William. It is also told that the three deceased siblings of Mat are resting at the town’s graveyard and their headstones became an immortal proof of their tough and short life in Port William.
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