Marks
Matthew Marks
Hensley
Honors English/ Fourth
27 January, 2017
?The Boarded Window? Summary The story opens with an unnamed author recalling the past years, back in 1830, when the area around Cincinnati was almost all forest. Murlock is a man who lives alone in a small log house. Murlock never really bothered anyone else, he is always alone and he makes his living on bartering animal skins. The most noted aspect of the house is the window it is directly across from the front door. His window was always boarded up and no one could remember a time that it was not. The narrator however, knew exactly why for he heard his story from the man?s grandfather.
When Murlock died he was 50 but he looked decades older than he actually was. Murlock…show more content… Murlock tries to nurse her back to health himself since no one lives around him at all. His efforts fall short since she falls into a state of unconsciousness and dies without ever recovering awareness.
Murlock then gets everything prepared for the burial of her body because he can not just let it lie around. He does this task socially and then he realises that he should be more sad over the death of his own wife. He says to himself that he will miss her a lot after he buries her; for the present moment, he must convince himself that everything that is going on is not actually as bad as it may seem. The narrator supposes that Murlock since he has not ever really experienced grieving before is going through a sort of numbing sensation at the loss of his wife since it is an awful…show more content… Through the open window of the house he hears a very strange sound, perhaps a wild animal, but it could be a dream since Murlock is actually already asleep. A few hours later after the strange noise he suddenly awakens. He listens very intently trying to figure out what exactly it was that woke him up. He thinks he hears a noise like a soft step of someone walking with bare feet along the floor of the cabin. Murlock was terrified but he did not scream he did not even run away, he just did nothing. He just sits calmly waiting in the black abyss that is his room. He tries to speak his wife?s name but finds that nothing will come out when he tries to do so. Then he hears something way more dreadful, the sound of some sort of heavy body throwing itself at the table that his wife?s body lays upon. Then Murlock heard a very loud thud with an impact so hard it shook the entire cabin. A scuffling then ensued and then Murlock got up and put his hands on the table as if to check and there was nothing on the
