Course: ENG494
Assignment: The Rats in the Walls Annotation
March 3rd 2018
Set/Setting:
The discovery of an underground city left by the protagonist’s family drives hime insane and ends up in a mental institution. After moving back home to England, the protagonist and his cat hear rats in the walls. After a night of nightmares of a swine heard, the protagonist discovers an underground city which his old family had created of human trafficking. This city satisfied the protagonist’s family desire of human flesh, but one of the family members decided to end it all and kill the family. The killing of the family left the rest of the humans down in the city, allowing the rats to feast on the remaining people. Acknowledging this horrible past of the protagonist’s family and trying to cope with the death of his son’s life during the First World War, the protagonist went insane and kills one of his friends in the underground city; feasting on the flesh of his friend. The protagonist is captured and sent to an insane institution and …show more content…
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