The Sentry by Tea\' Obreht

The short allegory The look surface station brings most strong themes such(prenominal) as jealousy, dominance, family relations and post-traumatic filter disorder. It tells a strange story ab discover a boys childhood. When Bojan move 10 his beat re dramatic played mob from the front with a mastiff called Kaiser. setoff of Bojan was very exited about having a dog because he neer had one before. But afterwards some time it turns out that the dog had some honest problems Within its rootage calendar month at their house, the dog had killed 2 of the neighborhoods alley cats(p.2,l.31) At first Bojan does not know how to hold Kaiser but after some time he disc all overs that Kaiser reply very strongly when he starts reloading and emptying the chamber of the gun. unmatched day where Bojan was tormenting Kaiser again his paternity discovered him Is that how its done? his produce said.(p.5,l.131) His father pulls out a chair and says sit to Bojan and he immediately sits. Bo jans father starts slowly reloading a gun commode him, and few seconds later a blast went off respectable behind his ear, and the mastiff fell to the shock and rumpled into the carpet and died.\n\nThe of import character of the story is Bojan. Bojan was 11, shy, and rase then he love music, the only boy at his school eagerly acquirement piano.(p.4,l.99) Bojan is not very pop and often gets bullied: On the appearance home one afternoon, some boys from a few blocks over wolf-packed him in the park. (p.4,l.101) Through out Bojans childhood he has eternally been different and he is alert that he is different. He would delight in for years whether everybody knew how he would turn out, whether there was something about him that revealed itself to battalion who could just feel those things (p.4,l.96)\n\nBojans father also plays an important role. after(prenominal) his return from the front it is transparent that his father suffers form post-traumatic sift disorder. He seems very outside and most of the time he stays for himself. The mastiff fol...