Analyse af 'Son of Satan' af Charles Bukowski

The short story “son of Satan” by Charles Bukowski is about a group of three boys, the boys

are sitting in the backyard smoking cigarettes and arguen about another boy Simpson who is

playing handball by himself in front of himself. In the story the three boys bully a kid from

there town and they end up playing court with him and the narrator assuming the roles, being

that the narrator is the judge and Simpson being the victim, they accuses him for lying. The

narrator determine that he is guilty of lying, and that his punishment is that Simpson should

be hanged. During all this Simpson tries to escape, but he keeps getting catched by the

narrator and his friends.

The theme is Bulling and violence.

The three kids are bullying Simpson, because he claims that he has fucked a girl under the

narrator's house "Yeah. That son of a bitch claims he fucked a girl under my house last week.

It's a god damned lie!" I said. The kids believes that Simpson is lying about it, and the actions

never occurred.

We think the message in the short story is, that the people you are surrounded by influences