Richard Strout's Killings

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Having a to bury a child is hard. Letting the killer run free is harder. “Killings” has different types of feelings and personalities mixed into it. It starts out deep and depressing the around the middle, gets dark the gets back to being depressing but more relaxed. It has hot tempered personalities mixed with jealousy. A man is in grief and early stages of depression over his son’s death. Someone just wants to be a friend and help out the family. Richard Strout is hot tempered and jealous. “One night he beat Frank,” (Dubas 493). Frank was sleeping with Strout’s wife while they were seperated. Strout wasn’t for that and beat him. Strout shot Frank in front of the boys. He was in so much grief over losing his wife to someone else he lost it …show more content…

His wife had to force him to go to his friends house for poker because “he couldn’t sit at home with her for the rest of his life,” (Dubus 491). By staying at home, he is showing a sign of depression (beyondblue.org.au par 3). He started to carry around a gun in case a situation happened (Dubus 492). In the middle of the story, Fowler and Trottier go to Strout’s work. Fowler makes Strout open the back door and he slips in. Trottier follows in his own vehicle (Dubus 496). Fowler makes Richard believe he is jumping bail (Dubus 499). He tells him that he already has things set up for him and that nobody would know where he went besides him and Trottier (Dubus 499). They drive towards …show more content…

It starts off with Steve, the older brother, saying “I should have killed him,” (Dubus 491). It’s irony because he isn’t talking about his brother, he’s talking about the killer.While he says this, Ruth, the mother, tightens her hand around Steve’s arm (Dubus 491). Later in the story she is happy that Steve killed Richard (Dubus 502). In the same paragraph it states he’s twenty-eight while Frank is twenty-one years, eight months and four days. The irony in this is the oldest is supposed to die first. When Fowler is ranting to Trottier about Strout, he mentions that he’ll probably will do five years at the most (Dubus 492). Later in the story he makes Stout he’ll let him jump bail (Dubus

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