Summary Of What Happened During The Ice Storm
A Sense of Humanity
Winter can be very cold and brutal for all walks of life. In Jim Heynen’s “What Happened During the Ice Storm,” he tells a story about farms boys who encounter pheasants during an ice storm that swept over the land and how they end up caring for the pheasants rather than further injuring them. After carefully analyzing the text the reader can understand how Heynen feels about human nature and how people behave in challenging situations as well as the theme he set for the story. While reading the story the reader can pick up a sense of severity as everything in the storm is being frozen over. Heynen uses sentences such as, “Ice thickened on the windows until everything outside blurred” (Heynen 1). The overall theme Heynen
Winter can be very cold and brutal for all walks of life. In Jim Heynen’s “What Happened During the Ice Storm,” he tells a story about farms boys who encounter pheasants during an ice storm that swept over the land and how they end up caring for the pheasants rather than further injuring them. After carefully analyzing the text the reader can understand how Heynen feels about human nature and how people behave in challenging situations as well as the theme he set for the story. While reading the story the reader can pick up a sense of severity as everything in the storm is being frozen over. Heynen uses sentences such as, “Ice thickened on the windows until everything outside blurred” (Heynen 1). The overall theme Heynen