One main theme present in this essay is the fact that suffering is inevitable. Everyone goes through their own type of suffering. In the essay, the deer was tied up and it was struggling to be let free, where as Alan McDonald was suffering as he was burnt two times. At a closer view, all of the travellers were also suffering mentally. They very much wanted to free the deer but they were helpless as they were seen as outsiders in the village.
Another theme present in the essay is that suffering comes in many different ways. In the essay, the suffering the deer goes through is being chased by the dogs and eventually being tied up and tortured until it is killed. In case of Alan McDonald, suffering is being burned twice and having to bear the
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The deer’s suffering would obviously end when it would die and it would then become a culinary delicacy.
In a way it is ironical that the deer is made to suffer so that its meat becomes a feast.
Some suffering are man – made, inflicted by man on man himself or on other creatures while at other times, there seems to be a higher power or divine force at work.On the other hand, we have Alan Mc Donald who gets burnt twice; once in his childhood and later in his adulthood
He was yet to recover from the trauma and the numerous operations he had to undergo to get his face and body restored because of the burns sustained in the first time, that he gets burned again
The pain and suffering that people who survive bad burns just cannot be imagined. Medicinal treatment can do little to alleviate their pain. They have to just “ lie there and weep” or “kill themselves”
Little would they have known life could include such pain and misery and subject them to this unbearable and untold