Hunchback in the park

Hunchback in the park

1. STORY

   • A hunchbacked man stays in the park all day everyday
   • He sleeps on the streets and scavenges for food
   • A group of boys playing truant from school chase the man and mock his condition
   • He tries to keep out of sight of the park keeper
   • He's isolated from everything
   • Thinks about tall strong woman who would protect him
     • maybe he's thinking of his mother

2. FORM AND STRUCTURE

   • Contains several characters who all give their perspective
   • A narrative poem
   • Hunchback i silent but we can access his feelings through the narrator
   • Poem is a series of observations
   • Loosly structured around the narrator recalling memories
   • Visual descriptions build up to give a dreamlike quality

3. MY IDEAS

   • He suggests that the hunchback is afraid of everyone and their judgments of him
   • I think the narrator is somebody who used to watch these happenings or prehaps he as one of the school boys