Analyse af 'Just Like That' af Michael Richard

We all have felt some sort of pressure at some point in our life. Maybe you’ve been pressured to do something by your friends, or maybe your parents have wanted you to become something special when you grow up. The story “Just Like That” by Michael Richard in 1987 really sets focus on some kind of pressure and how it’s like to grow up. How a special thing, episode or person can change you forever. In the story we hear about a boy and a man, walking around in the field, while shooting kangaroos. The boy who is the main person in the story, and the man seems to be really different from each other, in their action and feelings. The man is the oldest and has the ‘command’. It’s the man who tells the boy what to do, and doesn’t seem to give a thought about how it can affect the boy. Shooting a living thing with a riffle for the first time in a young age, that’s not something you just do.

It’s like the man doesn’t shoot the kangaroos for a purpose, but because he thinks it’s funny and that may also be the reason why he doesn’t find it hard to kill them. An example where we see how different the boy and the man is, is when the first kangaroo has been shot. They have some very different reactions and feelings afterwards and we see that when they come over to the dead kangaroo. The boy asked, “What do we do with them now?” “Nothing,” said the man, “let them rot”