dick prosser

In the story, The Child by Tiger, The Sheppertons are so intrigued by Dicks’s kindness and his ability to do different things, that they never would have guessed that he would do something so inhumane. Dick has the boys underneath his wing and make them look up to him as a mentor. The boys admire Dicks’s ex-military precision and efficiency most of all. Why would they ever have any reason at all to suspect Dick of doing anything bad? Dick infact teaches the boys to box, shoot, and play football. Everything about Dick leaves the boys to believe that he is nothing but tender and watchful. Clues in the text soon describe that maybe Dick is not the man that the narrator first informed the readers to be. Perhaps due to Dicks inhumane and racist past in the American South, it makes him make the choices he does. Dick Prosser is all too well described as a deeply religious and faithful man, with a firm and moral foundation. Dick’s darker side will soon be reavealed when the narrator describes Dick’s passionate Bible reading. He can be found with red eyes, but it maybe infact the spiritual side speaking through him, especially when he is angry. The narrator wonders about his dark and strange moan, using biblical phrases from the Bible. Dick underlined a big portion of the Bible stating, “Walking through the valley of death”. Had the boys and family known this, they may have suspected something earlier. Dick’s relationship with the boys is kind of sketchy. The boys find a gun in Dick’s room, and make a pact with them. If the boys promise not to say anything at all about the gun, Dick will teach them how to shoot. This forms a special conneciton and ond between them. It’s almost like Dick played them, using mans “darker” side. He used they’re friendship to keep from getting caught. The whole story is based on man’s “darker” side. Dick infact is relevant to akilling in Oklahoma City and Dunblane, Scotland, where a young man of 30 goes insane and kills about ten people. This act is not justifued, but had light shed onto. Dick also infact changes everyone’s mind, including the boys when he shows quickly how the sole with the most moral values can become evil, quick. First Dick takes the punches givin by Lon Everett, a drunken man. This leaves the readers to believe that Dick is a good, bold man for not fightitng back. It is unquestionable as to if Dick has a hidden side that people do not know about, by the environment he lives in. Dick Prosser’s anger becomes so built up from not being able to do anything about the things that were done to him, so he eventually goes on a killing spree. Society’s pressures become the key to his actions. Maybe Dick’s Bible being laid downward on the table was a foreshadow of his noninnoccence, with the rifle that carried one-hundred rounds of ammunition beside it. The boys are very scared and confused on Dick’s behalf of why he would be so violent and do such things as kill his choice of vitims, from a police officer to an innocent black man looking out of his window, to other several citizens, trying to end the madness. The boys in the end