Surrender By Hartnett: Plot And Conflict Analysis

Surrender By: Sonya Hartnett
Plot & Conflict Anwell is dying. He made a blood oath with his friend Finnigan. They agreed that Finnigan would only do bad, and that Anwell chose his new angelic name should be Gabriel so he could do no wrong. It was thought that if Gabriel did nothing but good, he would no longer be abused. Finnigan begins starting fires to the town as revenge to people that have done wrong to Gabriel. Gabriel falls in love with Evangeline, but his mother wants to keep him closed off from the rest of the world. Gabriel has a dog named Surrender and when Surrender is caught eating a farmer’s goats, the farmer shoots the dog but does not kill him. Gabriel’s father then forces Gabriel to shoot Surrender to put him out of his misery. Gabriel tries to stop
I chose this quote because it explains how scared Gabriel is of his mom because he knows he will be punished for his brother crying. In attempt to silence Vernon’s crying, he puts a piece of cloth in his mouth and hid him in an old refrigerator that was no longer in use. His mother came down from their bedroom and asked Gabriel what the noise was. Gabriel lied to his mother and said that Vernon was outside in the yard, when in all reality, he was dead in the refrigerator. Vernon’s body was later found by his father when he came home from church. The last quote that I chose from the novel was on page 231 and it was when Gabriel’s father said “The sooner its done, the better”. Gabriel’s father was saying this because he was having Gabriel shoot his dog, Surrender so he can put it out of its misery so he doesn’t suffer. Surrender had killed a farmer’s goats and the farmer had came outside and shot him. Surrender had not died nut he was severely wounded, the bullet was lodged in his muscle under the spine. Gabriel felt guilty about shooting Surrender but he knew that he could be