The Sentry
The Sentry
The Sentry is a essay and was written by Téa Obreht and published by The Guardian on the 14 August 2010. It is about a 10 year old boy named Bojan. Bojan is terribly scared of the mastiff his father brought back home with him when he was away the whole summer. When he first heard of the dog he was excited and couldn’t wait to have it but when he first saw it he was surprised and didn’t want it. Bojan was scared of the mastiff and within the first month, the dog had already killed two of the neighbourhood’s alley cats, and Mrs. Senka, the housekeeper, found them with their necks wrung, spines stiff and twisted. After some time, Bojan tried to avoid and stay out of the mastiffs way but that never really worked because they always seemed to cross paths. One day things just changed. He came home and the mastiff started a low growl, and he ran down to Mrs. Senka’s room and took her pistol in the drawer, and he deeply wanted to kill but started out with scaring and commanding the mastiff. One afternoon on the way home some boys from his school pestered him and destroyed his things, pissed on his papers and other things. When he came home, he was furious and wanted to kill the mastiff. Later that evening, he and his dad did too.
In this essay I will focus more on Bojan and the way he is, and why he is the way he is. Other than that, I will focus among other on the narrator, symbolism, the theme and the message of the story.
The author, Téa Obreht (born 30 September 1985) is an American novelist of Slovene and Bosniak ethnicity. In 2011, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Tiger’s Wife, which also was her debut novel1.
It is a 3rd person narrator because the observer is anonymous, but he does not take part in the story. He also has a limited point of view.
In the text it is clear in the beginning the action starts before the father comes home with the mastiff, because that’s when he’s excited and happy to get a dog. Bojan is 10 years old
The Sentry is a essay and was written by Téa Obreht and published by The Guardian on the 14 August 2010. It is about a 10 year old boy named Bojan. Bojan is terribly scared of the mastiff his father brought back home with him when he was away the whole summer. When he first heard of the dog he was excited and couldn’t wait to have it but when he first saw it he was surprised and didn’t want it. Bojan was scared of the mastiff and within the first month, the dog had already killed two of the neighbourhood’s alley cats, and Mrs. Senka, the housekeeper, found them with their necks wrung, spines stiff and twisted. After some time, Bojan tried to avoid and stay out of the mastiffs way but that never really worked because they always seemed to cross paths. One day things just changed. He came home and the mastiff started a low growl, and he ran down to Mrs. Senka’s room and took her pistol in the drawer, and he deeply wanted to kill but started out with scaring and commanding the mastiff. One afternoon on the way home some boys from his school pestered him and destroyed his things, pissed on his papers and other things. When he came home, he was furious and wanted to kill the mastiff. Later that evening, he and his dad did too.
In this essay I will focus more on Bojan and the way he is, and why he is the way he is. Other than that, I will focus among other on the narrator, symbolism, the theme and the message of the story.
The author, Téa Obreht (born 30 September 1985) is an American novelist of Slovene and Bosniak ethnicity. In 2011, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Tiger’s Wife, which also was her debut novel1.
It is a 3rd person narrator because the observer is anonymous, but he does not take part in the story. He also has a limited point of view.
In the text it is clear in the beginning the action starts before the father comes home with the mastiff, because that’s when he’s excited and happy to get a dog. Bojan is 10 years old