
In the Englishman's boy there was alot of power imagery, but I also found some blind imagery. This book revolves around power and I focused on it for my essay. But I would like to go off and talk about some blind. The Englishman's boy, Vincent and Shorty McAdoo were all blind, not physicaly but mentaly. Vincent is too blind to see that he is caught up in corruption until the end. He gets out of it quickly and continues on with his life. But McAdoo never saw this whole movie production coming. He just thought they were going to make a book about the truth of his stories, not the fake lies in a movie where he looks stupid. The most important character that was blind to see the truth was the Englishman's boy. He is with a bunch of savage wolfers who do not care about anything or anyone. I think this quote meant something towards the boy. " Hardwick got to his feet and spat. Unlucky horse? Blind horse is more like it. Dumb son of a bitch been riding a blind horse since yesterday and didnt know it. Blind mouse on blind horse." (Vanderhaeghe, 94) Hardwick says three blind mice before this. So if the horse is blind, Hank is blind, then i think the third is the Englishman's boy. I thought this blind imagery was more toward the boy because he could not see how bad these men were until they did something that hurt his feelings.
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