Summary Of The Short Story 'On The Sidewalk Bleeding'

Lucas Schodowski

Mrs.Ramin

Language and Literature 8, Hour 6

7 December 2015

Always Live Life to the Fullest In the short story “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” by Evan Hunter , Andy who is a 16-year old boy, while leaving his girlfriend Laura at the dance to go get some cigarettes he soon gets ambushed and he eventually gets stabbed by a Guardian with a knife and he is left all alone on the sidewalk in the rain lying down where he will be stationed for the remainder of the story. This is where he will ask and tell himself many things, including what he could have done through his life. In this story Andy realized that life is short and you should always live life to the fullest because he realized he was dying at a young age, he regretted becoming a Royal, and he left Laura abandoned by herself at the dance while he left to go get cigarettes.

The meaning of living life to the fullest was taught to the main character Andy in this story when he had figured out that he had never done anything with his life. For example, he soon discovers that he is already

To start, when he had realized that he had taken her for granted he may have never been stabbed. “He had left jump to get a pack of cigarettes……….He found that the candy store was closed so he knew that Alfredo's on the next block would be open and that was when he was ambushed.” (para. 7).While some people may have thought that Andy had told Laura that he was going to the candy store, they forgot that he had left outside of the building and a whole block away to Alfredo's instead of going back up or even just telling Laura he was leaving. Maybe if Andy had not have gone to Alfredo's he may have never have been stabbed and may have never learned his lessons the way he did and maybe his life would have never have been taken into