Analysis Of Good Brother By Peter Markus

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This short story “Good, Brother” by Peter Markus was a wondrous short story. There are two main characters named Jimmy and John, they are two brothers who are kinda strange. They would go fishing and they would cut off their still glistening -with -silver-scales heads off. Jimmy and John liked their dirty little town, and they loved nailing the fish they would catch by the dirty river onto a pole that was behind their yard. They lived with both their parents who- in fact never mentioned their names but they called their sons ‘brothers’ as well. The setting of this short story is in a old dirty town with a dirty river that runs through it. While reading this short story over and over I was still a little confused about it. During my first

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