We all have to go through it. We all learn from it, and it will always be in our memory. Growing up. Some just want to pass it and move on, where others try to stay in the phase as long as possible. Some people grows up when they leave home, some kids by becoming 18 and others a third or fourth reason.
The short story The Death of Tommy Grimes is about the main character Tommy Grimes and him becoming a man. The Story is written by R.J. Meaddough in 1962. The most important person we here about otherwise is Tommy’s father Tom Grimes also called Pa. The title first let us believe that Tommy is going to die, literally. And when you read the first pages, it is about hunting what makes it more likely that he might die. But in the end he does not die, literally.
Tommy’s father is teaching him how to hunt and track down animals. And as the story composes Tommy develops a new side of himself, and becomes a man instead of a boy. Because of this change the main theme is growing up.
Tommy is a 12 years old boy who lives with his mom and dad in a house near Collierville. Collierville is in the South-eastern America. We are also in a modern time, because of the tone in the text. They use colloquial language for example the father says: Then you dead, boy”. In that sentence there is missing a subject, this makes it a colloquial language.
The story is written in 3th person with an invisible narrator. The point of view lies with Tommy and it is an all-knowing person. The story mostly takes place in the woods, in Tommy’s house and in the Hut. But the main act takes place in the woods where Tommy shoots an “animal”.
The story starts with Tommy laying in the woods and waiting. While he waits he thinks of a lot about his hunting experience, especially with his father. Therefor there are a lot of flashbacks in the text. He remembers a night a year ago when he was eleven, where