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This short story requires reader’s cooperation and imagination as it only…

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    - - for example page 5 - starting paragraphs with not going on the train and ending with sheriff and not telling grandpa, through papas clothes, crying of women and events of last night and then some direct speech and again a long paragraph - aunt begging sheriff to drinking through bonds and not saying it in front of gerogie
- - - - he pays him to unsee things
        
        you dont say to people what you father is doing
        
        I gave you money so shut up
        
        blackmailing
        
        otherwise he finds someone else
        
        manipulation
      - pays him for covering him while with women
      - georgie helps him bacause of the profit and not understanding how uncle gets the money or what he is doing
  - - - reader can choose side as he doesn't pick one but is obvious who is right
      - mama said grandpa wont get present, period
        
        being influenced by rossie he eventually starts thinking about a present for him and also for reward he gets for it -> money
- - - - in the end he is excited by a simple possum not knowing what he was sort of witness of
    - - woman caught by the man and being silenced, yet georgie doesnt think of it as kidnapping but it is what it is, he spills the beans because he was ttold to do so
      - seeing man carrying a window blind with something, he thinking it was the jewelry yet missing it is a dead body
        
        and before he mistaken fireworks with shooting
      - listening to adults, hearing exactly what they talk about but not seeing the meaning p 11
- - - - "undestands virtually nothing that goes on around him"
      - he thinks he is doing business with his uncle but in fact he is hired to watch out for the husband of a woman with whom he has an affair
      - when his mother and aunt are weeping that their brother left with family fortune, he describes it as fact, common event, nothing special
      - he doesnt recognize that the object at the end is his dead uncle
      - he doesnt know his uncle is engaged with many women and that he stole family fortune
      - the innocent narration also covers the dark sides of the story
        
        he only thinks about the many
        
        mistakens the gunfire with fireworks
      - for the boy it is a story about his uncle whom he admires and loves X for his relatives it is about fraud, theft and murder
    - - correcting perspective
    - - the primary effect rises from the limited perspective of narrator