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Paranoia And Justified Fear In The Last Days Of Tony Harris By Wright Thompson

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In Wright Thompson’s short story “The Last Days of Tony Harris” the author decides to center the book around paranoia and justified fears. The story starts off with the protagonist Tony Harris who was a famous basketball player who has been struggling with his life after he was implicated in a murder investigation. Thompson does a phenomenal job of portraying the elements of paranoia and justified fear through many literary devices, creating the perfect unsettling environment. Thompson begins by stating that Tony Harris was always a very suspicious person. He was always nervous that someone was either following or watching him. Harris was so far gone that he believed that his phone was tapped and people were listing to him. In the
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