The hobbyist

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Categoria:	Inglese
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Data:	23.05.2007
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The hobbyist
Riassunto e analisi
The hobbyist deals with a murderer who went to a druggist to have an undetectable poison for his murder, because he heard a rumour about this druggist. The druggist said Mr Sangstrom (the murderer) to tell him the way of the murder. When Mr Sangstrom talk about the story and he said that he would kill his wife, the druggist prepared two coffee to invite him. When Mr Sangstrom had quite finished, he asked the druggist to give him the poison, but the druggist had already put the poison in Mr Sangstrom’s coffee. Mr Sangstrom pulled a pistol from his pocket, but the druggist wasn’t worried because he had the antidote. Mr Sangstrom said to give him the antidote, but the druggist obliged Mr Sangstrom to write a confession of his intention to murder his wife and after, the druggist had been going to send it to a friend. And he obliged Mr Sangstrom to give him 1000 dollars for the antidote. His hobby was preventing murders.
The narrator is the first person narrator and he’s omniscient. The setting is the pharmacy. The most important characters are the druggist and Mr Sangstrom. The druggist was a gnome like, gnarled little mean who could have been any age from fifty to a hundred. He was very clever and mysterious. For example he said Mr Sangstrom that the poison was freely and after ha wanted a lot of money for the antidote. During the story he used the irony. It’s the difference between what it said and what it meant. The druggist has helped many murderers not to commit their crimes. Mr Sangstrom didn’t understand the irony. The word used ambiguously in the story was ‘deserve’ because the druggist said Mr Sangstrom that he deserved the poison. Mr Sangstrom fales in understand what the druggist really meant. Infect the druggist won the game. The action last for an hour. This is a crime story because we know the murder from the beginning. The climax and the turning point are when the druggist said Mr Sangstrom that he had already put the poison in his coffee. In this story the events are in chronological and lineal order.