"The Supper" and "The Drunkard"

"The Drunkard" by was written in 1st person point of view while the "The Supper" by Tadeusz Borowski was written as third person limited point of view. While I truly enjoyed "The Drunkard" and the ironic twist at the end of the story, the twist at the end of "The Supper" left me sickened.

"The Supper" begins with so much detail from the dark heavy night that is cold and damp, filled with human misery to the way he describes the Russian prisoners right down to the zippers on their clothes. The author gives incredible details until the point of when the climax happens, the execution of the prisoners. He leaves it to the imagination of the reader for a brief moment what was happening at the moment. It isn't until the last line of the story he leaves the reader with the image of starving Jewish prisoners eating the brains of the Russian prisoners. The imagery of the author tells this story.

In "The Drunkard" the author focuses on the characters of the story in order to put the story plot in place, he spends time developing and telling us about Father and his drinking issues. He uses Mr Dooley's death as an inciting incident in order to start the story off. Larry's mother who entrusts Father with their young son was the character in the story that needed to fix everything. Larry was the young child who Mother had entrusted to watch out after Father at the funeral of Mr. Dooley's funeral. Funerals being a catalyst for Father to start drinking again.

Choosing to tell the story through Larry's eyes gave the story an interesting twist, Larry feels that his mother has entrusted him to watch over his father but he feels that he was ineffective at changing his father's behavior. The author takes the opportunity to use the natural curiosity of a young boy to teach the father a valuable lesson. Larry drinks Father's beer and becomes intoxicated, forcing Father to do the walk of shame home with a drunk little boy that he was suppose to be watching. Father was blamed for filling his son with drink, his guilt forced him to go work without another drink. Larry is rewarded for being the Guardian Angel to his father, because Larry's actions caused his father to be riddled with guilt about the neglect of his son he stopped drinking.