Reflection On The Boy In The Black Suit

He was considered part of the popular crowd. Matt believed that he had to harass people to establish his place above them. He was manipulative and abusive to his girlfriend. Matt needed to have power. He took his girlfriend making her own decisions as embarrassing and insulting to him. He took advantage of her in an unstable state. He repeatedly hit her and made her stay with “I love you”s knowing she needed his love to remind herself she was worth something.

Soon after being deserted on the road, grandfather comes down with a summer grippe and becomes helpless. Mattie then needs to take care of them both by finding food and water. This shows responsibility because she not only had to take care of herself, but of her grandfather too with no help from anyone, and no one to tell her what to do.

Families are one of the most important things in life. We have parents, kids, crazy uncles, and weird cousins, but that doesn’t change how it would feel to lose one of them. In the short story Killings, Richard Strout kills Frank Fowler and then suddenly disappears. Matt Fowler, Frank’s father, is suspected of murdering Richard and hiding all the evidence. After losing his son, Matt and his family grieved over the loss of their loved one wanted to see Richard Strout where he belonged, or at least out of sight. Although the story doesn’t reveal what happens to Matt Fowler after Richard Strout is dead, all the evidence, Matt’s PGD, his thirst for revenge, and how he believes the system has failed him when Richard was able to walk free, makes him guilty of killing Richard Strout.

‘What about the doctor?’” This quote indicates how kind of a heart Matt has. It introduces guilt to the reader of the man lying there and a little pleasure of knowing that the main character isn’t soulless. It helps add feelings and depth of the understanding of the reader when reading this dialogue. Secondly, when Celia, Matt’s guardian is leaving for work, says,“‘What’s this?’ the woman said. ‘You’re a big boy now, almost six. You know I have to work.’...

In the middle of the book, Matt encounters a situation that changes his life forever. He was stuck in a hospital room waiting for the doctors to take him in the operating room to do the heart transplant. With Celia’s help, he escapes from the hospital and El Patron. Celia had poisoned Matt so that El Parton wouldn’t steel his heart, “…enough to kill anyone already weak who tried to steal his

Mattie had so many traumatizing events occur in just a few months, yet she stayed strong and fought through the pain day by day. One of these events were when she tried to leave Philadelphia. Her and her grandfather were on a cart leaving Philadelphia, When they got thrown off because they thought that Mattie’s grandpa had Yellow Fever. All of their belongings were on that cart. Now Mattie and her grandfather faced starvation in the middle of nowhere.

In the beginning Mattie experiences grief for the first time since her dad died. Her friend and co worker Polly, had suddenly died one night when she was sewing. Even though Mattie wasn’t able to pay her respects to Polly’s mother she knew there was other things to worry about. Only a few chapters later Mattie’s mom became sick with the same disease that was now raging across the city. Mattie took care of her mother while she was experiencing the symptoms of the fever. It is clear throughout the beginning of the book Mattie perseveres through hard times even if her family and friends are sick and dying.

Matt is a middle class man who becomes obsessed with the need to get revenge on his son’s death. His son Frank is killed by a man named Richard. He is the husband and dads father of the women his son is in love with. This is what leads Matt into killing someone he wants pay back for his son death. Matt kills because he loves.

Black Boy is an autobiography of Richard Wright who grew up in the backwoods of Mississippi. He lived in poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and had rage towards those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. He was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common people who were slaves or struggling.

Having a father who treats coming home drunk as a hobby, can only cause a childhood stained with tears and trauma,which is exactly what Rex Walls caused for his children. Deprived of well-deserved euphoric memories, whenever they're asked to reflect on their younger years memories of countless disappointments will flood their minds. Rex Walls’s alcoholism disqualified him from being an actual father figure, instead he would be described as an unreliable, irresponsible, and reckless man. He constantly forgot that his actions had consequences and that he had children, who needed him the most at their young ages, to raise. Alcohol was the root of all this; it was the catalyst for the Walls children's disturbing childhood. Overall, alcoholism is an addiction that should be avoided out of all the negative repercussions it can cause. There is no doubt that Rex Walls was a very intelligent man with great potential to be successful and properly support his family. But he loosened his grip on the wheel of self-control, and let alcohol take over, the vehicle was lead off the road and wasn't able to find itself

With their death came many situations that needed solutions -harsh solutions- that almost drifted the family apart. Losing them forced Matt to act like an adult at the tender age of seventeen. Knowing that his parents are gone, Matt made sure that he looked after his little sisters while their older brother Luke was away looking for odd jobs that could support the family. In fact, his idea of babysitting was bringing his younger sisters to the pond. He taught them about the ecosystem in the pond - how the different beings in the pond lived. In a passage, Katie recalls the effect their parents’ death made on Matt: “..everyone assumed that I was the one most affected..[but] I had Matt to turn to..[he] had nobody” (102). Everyone assumed that he would just cope with the tragedy because he was expected to. After all, he was turning into an adult. Although he was pushed to the responsibility prematurely, Matt still stepped up and did the best he can to raise his little

The hard moments that effected Matt Fowler which led to him becoming a calculating killer was the murder death of his son frank. This left him with heartache that he could not overcome. He knew his son had a bright future ahead of him because he saw how deeply in love he was with his new girlfriend and knew how much happiness this women brought into his son’s life. Also knowing that the man who killed his son was off on bail and was freely walking around town was deeply troubling to him and his wife. Matt says, “Every day since he got out. I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about him for years. She sees him

In the beginning of the story, Mattie is arguing with her mother that she can’t go to polly’s funeral.Then this lead Mattie

Sanders had become a workaholic who avoided parties and struggled with shifting the blame off himself when he was not worthy of it. All of these qualities he had stemmed from the trauma induced by his father, and never left his life because he was too afraid of becoming his father. He faced the sad reality of being similar to his father in the way that he appeared to his son, something that would seemingly be avoided if alcohol was not in the picture, but it was not avoided. Out of all the fear and the shame held within, he could avoid the addiction. What he couldn’t avoid was the ugly truth about the demons he possesses inside him, coming to haunt him from the past, and coming to curse him with the fate he was so resistant against, becoming the father that he once had. This story is not an uncommon one. Even though there are variations in the parent’s behavior and the intensity of the effects on the child, the problem still exists. Over half of all people in America have had kids. How many of those children were lucky enough to have a parent from the 30% of alcoholics America

He again establishes his ethos by revealing his first-hand experiences dealing with the effects of alcohol abuse. Additionally, he employs diction through words with strong negative connotations in order to further emphasize his disdain toward his father. For instance, Sanders illustrates how alcohol would transform his father from a capable man into a “pathetic, frightening, deceitful” (12) man. Put in such stark terms, Sanders leaves his readers no choice but to confront the ugly truth behind alcoholism. Sanders’ word choice creates a condescending tone that emphasizes the shame Sanders had felt as a