Summer Reading PostPart A
Even though someone close to you was attacked violently, a way to get back the attacker is not with more violence. That is exactly what Joe did to the rapist. In the book, The Round House, Joe was thinking," I had to do what I had to do. This act was before me. In the uncanny light a sense of dread so overwhelmed me that tears started in my eyes and a single choking sound, a sob maybe, a wrench of hurt, burst from my chest"(Erdrich 264). This supports my central idea of the story because Joe knows it is wrong to kill or to do revenge at all. He knew there would be no prosecution for the rapist of his mom. He stole the gun from his friend's dad, a .22 caliber rifle, and shot the free man on the golf course where he was golfing.
Joe's mom, Geraldine was coming home when she was taken to a scared, worshiped "Round House" and raped along with another woman. Joe got angry that there was no investigation in this because there was too much fuss over whose land the crime happened on. The investigation never went on so Joe did it himself. He found out all the information he needed to know about the rapist and to kill him. Once he killed him, he gathered his friends up and drove across the country trying to escape from his life.
The Round House Article
