Pain in the Brain

I had to read this story a few more than three times to even try to begin to understand what The Colonel meant in any way at all. So upon the fourth or fifth tine reading this story I worked up the courage to begin to take apart the layers that this story has. The first part that I wanna take a stab at is the line that is "The moon swung bare on its black cord over the house". That line in my opinion means that the man had a belief in a higher being than himself but one that he did not fully understand so he said that it was swung bare on its black cord to portray that or it could be imagery of a very chilling night. It seems as though the house was fortified as well because he speaks of the glass shards that are in the walls and the bars that are over the windows. It seems as though he is in some sort of house that is on the frontlines of a battle. I also want to point out that some thing that I noticed was the tv was in English on one of the shows and that wouldn’t have been pointed out unless the writer had a purpose for it. Though I am unable to find any other purpose other than to show that this is not somewhere where they would normally be watching an English tv show. The further I got the more it sounded as if this was the story of a man who was taken captive somewhere because of the reference to his friend saying to him “with his eyes” to not say anything, and the only instance where this would occur is when one is captured and they are in front of an opposing Colonel. That also began to click together all the imagery. The pistol, the English tv show, the dark imagery of the moon, and the reference to the rights of the people.