identities+questions

Douglas Garard

1. Discuss the use of contrast to illustrate theme.

The guy didn't shave that day, which made the police man think of him as a bad person. When the guy saw the police man, he thought he was in safe hands. When he tried to reach his identity, the police man mistaken it as reaching for a weapon, and shot him. The theme of this story illustrates that you can't judge a person by the way they look or the way they live. his identity was mistaken as a bad persons, and gets shot by the police guy that he thought would protect him. If you make a bad guess on a persons identity, it could give you bad consiquences.

2. Explain the irony in the end of the story.

before we talk about the end, the guy was first judging the two biker guys and the girl, as people that would mug him. But when the police man came, he judged the guy as a criminal, and the guy judge the police man as a protecter, and the police man shot him. The irony of it is that he thought he might get hurt by the biker guys, but he got killed by someone he thought would protect him.

3. Explain the significance of the title as it relates to the theme.

The title identities, relates to everyone mistaking everyones identities. The Biker guys identity looked like they were violent and dangerous. The police man mistook the protaganist because of his unshaven face and blue jeans. The protaganist thought the police man would protect him because he thought he was an authority figure.