All In Horns By Joe Hill Analysis

In the deep caverns of the human brain a pitch black corner is found to harbor the overwhelming feeling of anger. As human beings we are capable of feeling a wide range of emotions, some of which are fleeting and of no effect on our actions and others are relatively stronger, strong enough to escape the confinements of the mind and cause disturbances. Anger is one of those stronger feelings. Anger is capable of clouding one’s judgment, demolishing one’s values, affecting one’s physical and mental health and one’s environment and surrounding people. Furthermore, like any other emotion, anger takes many forms and is triggered by a variety of different reasons. For example; being treated unfairly, experiencing abuse, suffering for a certain
The author; Joe Hill managed to humanize his protagonist and paint a picture to the reader of what anger is capable of. How the character’s environment and society drove him over the edge due to their misjudgment and prejudice that made him feel helpless and emotionally abused. All of which lead to his anger taking control and clouding all sense of reason he once had, turning him into a revenge seeking devil: “The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” (New King James Version, Rev.
This might just be the only difference between Ig and the devil; along the road, Ig does eventually find his salvation, but who is to say that he was on the wrong path to begin with. The idea of right and wrong, black and white is overlooked in this unique piece of fiction; it is clearly evident that Hill meant for God and the Devil to be allies and not enemies. It might be that each of them saw a little of themselves in Ignatius Perrish so they decided to put their disagreements aside in order to lend a hand to this poor, broken down