The Man In The Well Analysis

Comparing and Contrasting the complex mind of children and adults We live in cruel world full of bad people who do bad things and good people who are capable of doing bad things in the stories “The man in the well” and “If You Touched My Heart” readers witness several different types of people all of which except for one know right from wrong. The two stories both show how sick one’s mind can be as well as how cruel a person can be. Some at a very young age but also as adults. In the story “The Man in the Well” and If You touched my heart the reader will see how A bad person or bad people can take control over someone mentally just by saying the right things. Even though the children didn’t put the man there themselves they received a great deal of joy by making this man believe that they had any intentions of helping him get out of the well. They all agreed without saying a word to each other that they were not going

Both the children and Amadeo Peralta treat both the victims in the story like animals. In if you Touched my heart the Isabel Allende describes the harsh conditions she was forced to live in and the effect it had on her body “She was unaware of the scales sprouting from her skin, or the slick worms that had spun a nest in her long, tangled hair” (Allende 523). Although she is clueless to all these things happening to her body she is still in the worst possible place and this is a clear example of him not caring about her. He almost left her for dead because he forgot about her. Like in the story “If You Touched My Heart” The children in “The Man in The Well” The children can tell that the man is not feeling okay the first indication was that he was in a well but He sounds sick “We heard him coughing in the well” (Sher22). He describes the well as being very dry and he is concerned on whether or not it will rain so he could get water. Even though the children do not put him in the well they are barely interested in the man’s