I Want to Know Why
Probably this American short story is not as popular as Dickens' David Copperfield, yet it also enjoys great fame in the present world. It is coincident that Anderson also gives his readers the shadow of the world through the eyes of a child. One of the different things between the two stories is that Anderson uses the first person for his book. The hero of the story, is a particular townsboy in his teenage¡ª15. He loves horses because "they are charming, clean, powerful and honest and reliable". He loves black people, too, as "they are industrious and capable and more reasonable than the whites in dealing with the kids". He expects to live in a widely open and clean world with the smell of earth and grass and the people there being honest, quick, capable and emotional. However, what he saw was quite to the opposite side of his dream. The boy saw with his own eyes that his coach, whom was so respected by the boy, hung around with an ugly-looking and bad woman in a bad-smelled place where people always spoke obscene language. The boy was then badly
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Approximate Word count = 714
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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