When I was little I thought it would always be fun to be invincible and be able to play tricks on people and not get caught. Looking back I feel that after sometime it would get old and no longer be the fun it use to be. Which to me would be a little better fate that what happened to Dutilleulin in the story "The Man who walked Through walls, or The Life of an Unremarkable Person" by Marcel Aym`e.
This story is all about Dutilleulin power he has to be able to walk through walls. He first starts out just using his powers to get in and out of his apartment but then he feels that he can not be caught and begins to commit crimes using his power. This leads me to the question in my head which is would all people be interested to see what they could get away with if they had a special power? I feel that people would use their power it the means to do good but then get carried away and then begin to commit crimes, such as what Dutilleulin did in the story.
The first part of the story that really got my attention and made me think, "that is something i may do if I had this power. The part of the story that I focused on for my close reading is the part where Dutilleulin uses his power to taunt his boss, by putting his head through the wall and talking to his boss like he was a trophy on the wall. After this part of the story is where Dutilleulin figures out that he could do a whole lot of things and he felt that he couldn't get caught.
The second part of the story that caught my attention was the end of the story where he becomes trapped in the wall of lovers house. This part of the story really stumped me because there are many things I feel that don't add up. The first thing is even if you have a headache, what makes a person think it is a good idea to take unlabeled pills that you find in the bottom of your drawer.The other part that stumps me is why would anyone feel like they will never get caught for the bad things that they did.
To me this story is used to try and teach people about the moral of Karma "what goes around comes around", because after all the bad things that Dutilleudin did it all caught up with him in the end of the story when he got stuck in the wall after his pills began to take affect. So to me when I look at the overall moral of this story, it is telling the readers to be aware of the things that they do and that if the things they are doing are bad enough they should be aware that what they did could come back and harm them. So a question for you would it be worth having a super power, knowing that it could come back as Karma to get you.
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