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Paul Michelson Murder

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The thrill of a hunt invigorates people causing them to forget their troubles. Especially when the hunt ends your life. Crisp air nipped at Halvorsen’s nose as he trudged through the rooted snow. His soul rejuvenated at each breath he stole. Once again, he felt enlightened only to be appalled by the rash sight of blood stained snow. Death cripples people, and depending on the person they can either get back up or stay down. However this is not the case for Paul Michelson. Promptly after learning of his son’s death, Paul derives to a state of revenge. The edict which the Game Warden aforementioned aroused Paul’s hatred towards hunting. Paul was right to suspect such foul play. For his son’s killer eluded everyone. His brash actions were committed out of selfish desires. Now it was up to Paul to make everything right again. The hunt for the deadliest predator was about to ensue and …show more content…

Loving and caring however are not one of them. Paul is filled with vengeance and regret. He is obsessed with avenging his son’s death after he is murdered. ☺ He is as obsessed as a dog with a bone. Paul resorts to extreme measures in order to ensure the murderers demise. This shows that some people are willing to go as far as possible when they are grieving for a loved one. Paul portrays many emotions that lead the reader to believe that he is brimming with regret over his son. Paul does not mourn for his son’s death but he mourns for the time he did not get to spend with his son. This shows that Paul is in fact not soulless. Paul mourns that he was not able to talk to his son one last time: “The day before it happened. He wanted me to call back. But I figured it was too late, after I got in from adult class I do Sundays, and I turned off the machine and it slipped my mind, and then” (Poyer 16). Paul mourns for the loss of his son by seeking vengeance on the murderer. He evades death and forces his emotion to subside until the deed was

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“His teachers felt this afternoon that his whole attitude was symbolized by his shrug and his flippantly red carnation flower, and they fell upon him without mercy . . .” (Cather 92). Paul is a character in the short story “Paul’s Case,” which was written by Willa Cather, who was not living a life that he wanted to. Cather did give me the impression that we should view Paul in an unsympathetic way in the beginning of the story, but by the end of it, my whole view on him changed. Throughout the story, Paul is someone who the readers need to take time to think about to fully understand him.

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