Just Like That

Short summery:

The story is about a man and a boy and they are out hunting Kangaroos. The man tells the boy that if he doesn’t shoot the Kangaroos he will never be a man.

Group 2:

Kangaroos:

1.     Page 25, line 24: ….Its forepaws were curled like small hands. It lifted its head to caress the boy with its large limpid eyes. Peaceful it looked.

2.     Page 25, line 31: … swivelled its eyes, trying to watch both the man and the boy.

3.     Page 25, line 41: …He reached a hand to the kangaroos breast. It was warm and very soft. The black eyes remained open.

4.     Page 26, line 21: … He lowered the sights onto the white patch of the Kangaroos throat.

5.     Page 26, line 32: …

The Boy:

At first he is nervous and feels sick. He gets a physical reaction of his action and has no contact with his feelings. He shuts down. He is like a machine and after he shoots the first Kangaroo, he finds out that the experience was not like he has expected. It was easier because he does not fell anything at all. In the end the boy feels empty and dead but reacts by tears. He cannot control his emotions inside.

He is a little boy, who wants to become a man. He follows the man’s instructions, by shooting the Kangaroos. He is a human being, who becomes a machine without any feelings.