son of satan
Essay: Son of Satan
The short story ”Son of Satan” is a story about an eleven years old boy, who’s telling us his story through his eyes. The story takes place in the narrator’s neighborhood during the summer holidays. The narrator and his two friends Hass and Morgan are all bored. In lack something interesting to do, they decide to harass one of the other boys from their neighborhood called Simpson. The narrator claims, that Simpson is lying about having sex with a girl, and therefore they start beating Simpson, whereupon they try to hang him.
The narrator is an ill-adjusted boy. He is the leader among his friends and wishes to keep his statues. He may not show any weakness and continues tormenting Simpson even though, he thinks, they got far enough, he still continues. Peer pressure is a big part of his life; he’s being pressured by his father as well as the other two boys. He has a reputation, and he has to be tough even though, he doesn’t want to be it.
In the story where they are holding a kangaroo court, the narrator takes the position as the judge and Morgan and Hass is beneath him and taking orders from him. The boys don’t question his authority. At page 4 Simpson tries to run off, and Hass tackles and punches Simpson so the narrator slams Hass across the face with the rope to stop him, and Hass doesn’t do much about it. Elsewhere on page 4 the narrator commands Morgan to give him a cigarette, and just simply do it. From these examples it’s clearly that the narrator is in charge of their group, because they accept his authority and execute his orders.
After the hanging they all run off, but the narrator has nowhere to go, and when he runs back into the yard again and unties Simpson, he feels some kind of emptiness, and is afraid of feeling remorse. He had really no good reason, for what he did to Simpson. He actually thinks, Simpson is a nice boy. But he won’t allow this feeling to take place in his body. It doesn’t fit with his role as leader to be
The short story ”Son of Satan” is a story about an eleven years old boy, who’s telling us his story through his eyes. The story takes place in the narrator’s neighborhood during the summer holidays. The narrator and his two friends Hass and Morgan are all bored. In lack something interesting to do, they decide to harass one of the other boys from their neighborhood called Simpson. The narrator claims, that Simpson is lying about having sex with a girl, and therefore they start beating Simpson, whereupon they try to hang him.
The narrator is an ill-adjusted boy. He is the leader among his friends and wishes to keep his statues. He may not show any weakness and continues tormenting Simpson even though, he thinks, they got far enough, he still continues. Peer pressure is a big part of his life; he’s being pressured by his father as well as the other two boys. He has a reputation, and he has to be tough even though, he doesn’t want to be it.
In the story where they are holding a kangaroo court, the narrator takes the position as the judge and Morgan and Hass is beneath him and taking orders from him. The boys don’t question his authority. At page 4 Simpson tries to run off, and Hass tackles and punches Simpson so the narrator slams Hass across the face with the rope to stop him, and Hass doesn’t do much about it. Elsewhere on page 4 the narrator commands Morgan to give him a cigarette, and just simply do it. From these examples it’s clearly that the narrator is in charge of their group, because they accept his authority and execute his orders.
After the hanging they all run off, but the narrator has nowhere to go, and when he runs back into the yard again and unties Simpson, he feels some kind of emptiness, and is afraid of feeling remorse. He had really no good reason, for what he did to Simpson. He actually thinks, Simpson is a nice boy. But he won’t allow this feeling to take place in his body. It doesn’t fit with his role as leader to be