On the sidewalk bleeding
Conflict
Setting
In this short story the conflict is about how reputation can ruin a persons life even if this person is the nicest person u have ever met. To explain, in the story Andy is approached by a young couple that could have helped him but they noticed that he was wearing a jacket which represented a gang that Andy was in so they walked away not wanting to get in the middle of anything serious. Next, a drunk man walked up to Andy and thought he was drunk as well just because he was on the ground and didn't look well which represents the bad reputations of humanity.
The setting matches the emotion very well, Andy is sad and depressed because he was stabbed by a thug in the alley.
This reflects how the weather is dark and rainy and Andy is sad thinking about his girlfriend and how he wants to marry her one day but he won't get the chance to do so.
Andy
Andy is a 16 year old boy who just joined a gang called "the Royals". one night he went out to get some cigarettes he was stabbed in an alley by someone from another gang.
Andy is just a normal young man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. he eventually regrets joining the Royals and tries to take of the jacket
NARRATORS DESCRIPTION
protagonist/antagonist
The narrator describes Andy as a caring and loving person. First of all, the entire time that Andy is laying on the ground all he is concerned about is the fact that he has family, friends and a girlfriend who are going to be waiting for him at home not even thinking about weather or not he will die that night. Lastly, when Andy was thinking over his possible future he thought of how if he made it out of that horrible situation that he would one day like to get married to his girlfriend Laura and even grow a family with her.
In this story Andy is the protagonist. First of all, he was just out to get himself a pack of cigarettes and he was ambushed by some gang members not even knowing what would happen next.
One of the antagonists would of course be the gang member that ambushed Andy in the alley. Other antagonists would be the drunk man the old lady and the couple. Because they all left Andy there when they could have helped him get out of that bad situation.
On the sidewalk bleeding