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Mr. Mann's Short Story: Demanding School Life
Mr. Mann was greatly upsetted by the motive the disc had in store for him, for Max was his one thing that allowed him to escaped pressure of the demanding school life and home life. Although chilled and quiet, looks can be deceiving, the normalcy of that life pressured him to no hand. He craved relaxation and comfort and Max was all he was looking for. Therefore, seeing the one thing that gave him a reason of happiness withered and empty sent him over the edge. He needed to get out of Magnolia to see whether the devilish bear was lying or not and to do that he had to kill someone. He chose who seemed like an easy target, Mrs. Giakoumis. She didn’t gave much of an impression toward the other teachers and tended to avoided them ever since she …show more content…
Kim went over to his room and discovered many crumpled up notes being piled up in the trash bin. He went over her room and knocked on her door and leaving the note on the ground, expecting her to read it. However things didn’t go as he wanted to happen and someone else came to her room and found the note before she did. Said person read the note and went over to the library where Mann was at. When this person approached the math teacher, he was surprised. He was expecting her to come instead. The two began talking but Mann was too desperate to leave to school and then he attacked. Hiding the knife he had borrowed from the teacher’s lounge, he rushed the person, but was unexpectedly grabbed by the wrist. The two struggled against one another, before the accidental jab of their fighting wrist led to Mann slitting his own throat. Mann stumbled backed while clutching his own neck, dropped the knife on the floor in shocked. He knocked over everything inside and then noticeably rammed into a bookshelf crushing his abdomen. The person ran away toward the infirmary to retrieved some bandages. when he returned to the crime scene, however, Mann was dead. The person sadly tried to get rid of the bandages but noticeably left something back at the crime

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