January 12, 2015

Man From the South

The plot summary is how the oldish little man kept trying to get the boy to bet.  The boy seems to be in Jamaica and staying at a hotel.  He went to sit in a chair next to the swimming pool and drink his beer.  A little man in a white suit was walking around the pool sat next to the boy.  They talked about the people in the pool.  When the American sailor and girl got out of the pool and sat down, he offered cigarettes to everyone, and the boy took it and held up his lighter and that is when the old man bet his Cadillac for chopping off the young boys little finger.  Discussion of action is how the boy agreed to the bet and let the old man tied his hand down to be ready for it to be chopped off because he thought his finger was not needed, and he can win a car.  The main characters are the naive young boy, the crazy old man who like chopping of people’s finger and the woman who rushed in just time to stop the boy from getting his finger chopped off.  The plot twist is that the woman who watches the old crazy man that chops off people’s finger is the person who owns the Cadillac and she had only one finger and a thumb on her hand.  She tries to save other people from what has already happened to her.  Three literary elements is irony because the woman who saved the boy owns the Cadillac and has lost her fingers to the crazy man that she now feels responsible for watching him.  The conflict is within the boy who finally convinced himself that it won’t matter to lose his finger, because it hasn’t done anything for him compared to winning a Cadillac that is not too old. Imagery that the woman of had one finger and a thumb help saved the boy’s finger from being cut off.  The rating is 3.5/5 because it makes no sense that an old man goes around chopping off people’s finger show he is a sick man.