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The Sentry Short Story

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The Sentry The short story the sentry is written by Tea Obreht and was published by the guardian 14th August 2010. The genre of this story is a novel because there are few characters in the story we follow from the start to the end and this one of the characterizations of a novel. The short story has multiple themes but the main theme of this story is the relationship between the father and the son. The short story is about a boy named Bojan who is 10 years of age who lives with his housekeeper Mrs. Senka while the father is out in the military. Bojan´s father returns home from the sentry and brought a dog to stay with them. The neighborhood was frightened of the dog because he killed other dogs as well as scaring the children. When Bojan was coming from school, he was ambushed by some boys and they made him all muddy. His father was really disappointed at him on account of he couldn’t protect himself. Bojan didn’t like the dog his father had brought with him cause it didn’t show any respect. He found a way to gain authority over Kaiser by pointing a gun at him. One night he did the same routine, but the father wakes up from his nap and looks at what Bojan Is doing. At the end, the father takes the gun and shoots the dog in front of his son in the sitting room. The author has decided to use a third person narrator,” He remembered thorough scrutiny when the big face came close and the air around him drew in and out of the wet muzzle. .”(L.18-19) in the quotation we can

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