Ray Bradbury's The Small Assassin

As a young child, David had a loving family, his Mommy, his father and his two brothers. By the time he was seven, he was being starved and abused by his mother. In his life, David had to face many challenges. One of which is having to play his mother’s “games” that left him half dead. He would also get punished for being a “bad boy” when he never did anything. Later, he had enough courage to tell someone, his 4th grade teachers at Thomas Edison Elementary School.

In 1967, when David was only fourteen, Pearl was taken by cancer. Moving into a new home with two instead of three people, David grew more mentally unstable. He gained an unhealthy sense of self-criticism, and was convinced that the whole world was plotting

A recent study by the American Psychological Association showed that there is a direct relationship between the amount of violent media parents present to their children and the amount of aggressive behavior they will display later. Another study by the Psychiatric Times stated that the amount of violence shown regularly has become dangerous and unrealistic. As a society, we have become obsessed and infatuated with violence. Whether it be in action movies, or in studies about how harmful it is, we can 't stop thinking about it. Destruction is one of the significant issues impacting us today. Ray Bradbury starts his dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, with the following quote, “It was a special pleasure to see things

' ' 'James Stephen Smith ' ' ' was a schizophrenic defense attorney and who thought women were the “the tools of his enemies” through a an old story in the Bible called the wife of Heber.

David shows he is trustworthy because he tries to keep Sophie’s secret long enough for her family to escape. Sophie’s dad, John Wender, suggests David can help when he says “Will you stay here till tomorrow morning? That’ll give us more time to get her safely away” ( Wyndham 49). David reliably tells him that he will stay and he does keep up to his promise. When he returns home in the morning David is confronted by his father, he asks him where the Wender family was heading, David replies when he says he isn’t sure. His dad concludes by saying “ I’ll deal with this. The boy’s lying” - “ Go to your room ” (51). This shows how far David will go to keep Sophie’s secret. David stays out after curfew to help give the Wender family a head start and he takes a beating as punishment. This shows how Sophie makes David

David witnesses many things and had to endure disturbances by himself through the story. An example would be Marie’s murder when he saw Frank leave the house. As his father’s child, David is faithful to his father and knows that the right thing to do is to tell him what he had witness. At rough times, David would think of leaving his father and following his instincts and escaping with his mother but then he would put himself into his father’s shoes and realise that Wes needed all the support he could get. The relationship between father and son shown with David is different when it is shown with Julian and Wes.

“There I was in Denmark alone, sad I was searching in the phone book for the name, Edith Fengel waiting for the moment to see my mother”. David Fengel at the end of his freedom journey home had gone through tragedy all his life as he knocked on the door the wood block edged open slowly and David spoke of what he had seen “ as the door opened I saw a women face, I knew not if it was my mother as the words came out my mouth, My mother Edith Fengel said, “David is that you?” I ran into the arms my soul long for my whole life I was Physically

" Then when Bell questioned the boy without the money the real story spilled. " He said that we didn’t know what he looked like. He give David a hundred dollar bill. " The boy kept to his morals saying "I learned somthin from it" and that he can not say if David learned anything from this experience.

David makes a strong choice consequent to his own daughter, Phoebe, who was born with a disability known as down syndrome. The author demonstrates the audience that, “He thought of his sister, pale and thin, trying to catch her breath, and his mother turning to the window to hide her tears. ‘Don’t you see?’ he asked, his voice soft. ‘This poor child will most likely have a serious heart defect. A fatal one. I’m trying to spare us all terrible grief’”(Edwards 18). Edwards character, DAvid shows, that he fears to relive and bear that same grief upon his wife, Norah. David gets taken back to the time where, Edwards expresses “Still, he remembered the depth and endurance of his mother's grief, the way she walked uphill to the grave every morning, her arms folded against whatever weather she encountered”(Edwards 17). Having a child with a disability can cause a considerable distress on one's physical, emotional, and mental well being. Edwards character, David, feels as if he were real, because just like him, when a certain event occurs, many react in a way that is not understandable until later on, or

Eventually good times started to turn bad, “ My relationship with mom drastically changed from discipline to punishment that grew out of control”. David had to crawl away sometimes because the things his mother would do to him was to crucial at times. David knew something had changed about his mother when his father left and she would lay on the couch and do absolutely nothing. One day she told David and his two brothers she started the to search the entire house for nothing

When his daughter is born with down syndrome, David gives her away to the nurse, Caroline. He lies and tells his wife that his daughter died at birth. His decisions sculpted his life and the lives of his love ones. His lies force him to live a life full of secrets.

David believes he is doing the right thing, but it turns out that by doing what he did, David only pushes his family to their breaking point, causing them to seek consolation in various different ways, which reveals the themes of deceit and grief while also shaping the

David’s life was him as a child not being liked and encouraged by his family. David got shot three times. His dad or mom weren’t there to

David 's Physical Survival is when the storm was over his house had a big hole in the front from the tree falling on it and electrical wires all over so when he goes into town for a few things he has to try to not die from these alien creatures that came out of this mist that appeared after this storm that surrounded the store little after the arrival their . He has to deal with everyone acting crazy and trying to not let the creatures in. He has to keep other people from joining into the crazy ladies theory that god is trying to kill them and that this was their punishment.

At his next foster home, he makes his first two real friends, and they get into harmless trouble. David feels really at home here, but ends up by going back to the Turnbough's because he is uncomfortable with the amount of fighting that is taking place between his foster parents. He stays at the Turnbough's until he is 18, and after getting his G.E.D, enrolls in the US Air Force. This is basically