Monologue Of The Crooked Man

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When there is an only child all the attention is on him and when there is someone else who pops in and takes all the attention away from that child it is human nature to feel jealous and angry. If someone does not suppress these emotions they may end up doing something against their morals. David had lost his mother and only had his father left with him, but when David's father remarried and had a child named Georgie his attention went slightly away from David which made him jealous and angry at his new family.The Crooked man takes this feeling of jealousy and angry and tries to turn them into hate. The Crooked man says that his family back in the other world does not love him and is happy without him. He says that if you live in your world “... …show more content…

You will become old and sick. Your limbs will ache, your eyesight will fade, and your skin will grow lined and aged. There will be pains deep within that no doctor will be able to cure…” The Crooked man makes Davids world look like an evil world and tries to convince David to stay in the fairy tale world. The Crooked man tells David that “The life you left behind you is no life at all.” and if he stays “Here, you can be king, and I will allow you to age with dignity and without pain, and when the time comes for you to die, I will send you gently to sleep and you will awaken in the paradise of your choosing, for each man dreams his own heaven.” The Crooked man says if he stays all this can be his, and all he will have to do is have to do is Bring him his brother Georgie. David knows that if he sacrifices Georgie the Crooked man will eat Georgie’s Heart. David refuses to betray Georgie to the Crooked Man and this shows that David has overcome his selfishness and insecurity and now trusts his family and brother

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