Analyse af novellen 'Son of Satan'

The short story is about a small friend group at the age of 11-12 years consisting of, The narrator, Morgan and Haas. Whilst smoking cigarettes in the narrator’s backyard, they decide to disturb Simpson who’s a boy in the neighborhood, this is because The Narrator is confident that Simpson has had intercourse with a girl under The Narrators’ house. They approach the innocent boy, who’s just playing ball with himself in his garage. They leave the boy with no choice, but to follow the friend group back to the narrator’s backyard, where they continue to torture the boy, and here’s when the first concerns begin to evolve within Morgans brain, perhaps this stunt wasn’t right, perhaps the boy wasn’t even guilty. They eventually decide to hang the boy with a rope, leaving the crime scene immediately. But suddenly the narrator realizes what he has done, and heads back to the backyard to unleash the boy from the strangling rope. After the narrator let’s the boy go, he wanders through his neighborhood for hours, imagining the pain he might have put an innocent guy through. After a while he comes home to his dad, who’s with well reasoning in a furious mood. The dad reveals that he had to pay the parents of the innocent boy to keep their mouth shut. The dad then beats up the narrator, which leads us to the end of the short story.