Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Man I Killed #5
Why do you suppose Tim imagines the unknown man that he kills as he does? In other words, Tim doesn't know who this man really was, but he conjures up a detailed life story that seems rather convincing. But why this life story and not some other? What is significant about the particular details Tim imagines about this man?
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Tim comes up with this imaginary life story of the man he kills to make an example. He wanted to point out that this man had a life and people who cared for him. Tim imagines the man's past life and realizes now in the present how he has taken this man's future. The life story that he conjures for his victim may have been a life similar to his own. This shows to him how the two were very much the same and how easily it could have been him on the other side of the rifle.
ReplyDeleteTim likely imagined the unknown man he killed because he took away a life, but not just any life, but one which paralleled his in many ways, specifically by his physical appearance, noted by the person being a “slim, young, dainty man.”
ReplyDeleteHis guilt was so compelling that it manifested into him molding the entire life of the person he never knew. The person was suited to match his personal qualities in order for him to be able to better identify with his victim. By portraying the man he killed to be essentially a counterpart of himself, he is better able to understand the awful nature of killing.
The significant feature that Tim mentioned was his physique, in which he was able to capture his victim’s image and gradually unfold his victim. He portrayed the young man as a scholar probably because it was a figure of importance, someone whose life had significance that he had tragically cut short.
He imagined the stories because he feel guity about what he did. The man he killed has a life too, he has his acadamic, he has his girl friend, he has exactly the same as Tim. The story is just one of the possibility, but this imagination already put him in guity. There will be thounsand of people who died in the war and all of them have different stories.
ReplyDeleteHis imagination of the stories reveals his regret of killing the man. Generally speaking, killing people is a heinous crime in people's mind, which ends up a life. He imagined the storis, he guessed the man he killed would have what kind of life before the death. He killed him, which equal to end up his life, and terminate his life story. He might think he has already terminate the man's everything. This regret put him in guilty and sense of sin.
ReplyDeletebrilliant response, dev[pm].
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