LL290 Literary Analysis
Professor Daniel McNally
January 30, 2013
On the sidewalk bleeding by Evan Hunter short story, there was a lot of hate and conflict between two gangs the royals unusual and the guardians. That eventually led to a horrible incident. Knowing of the hate rage that they had against each other it was no surprise to me that he was Stabbed by one of the guardians and left laying down in the sidewalk. He was in so much pain and unable to scream for help. All he could do is to think of Laura the women he loved and him dreams to make a family with her. Some help came to him but unsuccessfully to help him, the Drunken man was too drunk to help him. But with Freddie and Angela was different they didn’t help him because of the name on his jacket (Royal) they were afraid of being harassed by the guardian, once again he was left to bleeding to death. By reading this story I realized how ironic life is he thought that it was cool to be one of the royals, but instead it worked against him. We don’t treasure life and people around us we take things for granted. Andy realized that it was not cool at all to be a royal, and that there was other things more important that being in a gang. Unfortunately for him it was too late he was dying and it’s too sad to dye alone with no one around. I realized that violence doesn’t lead you to any