AGENDA:
1. More on "The Hit Man" and creating images and subtleties
An unsympathetic character - the way that T. Coraghessan Boyle has written “The Hit Man.” Use a “The Dictator” or “The Senator.” Exaggeration is the key here.
T. Coraghessan Boyle's short-short "The Hit Man" uses the approach of a scrapbook that catalogs a hit man's early years until his death. A very short work can contain a novel. The reader sees this four-page story as a coming-of-age, fictional biography, which tells about the hit man's trouble with teachers as a youngster, his life on the streets, the death of his parents (he "wastes" his father, but his mother dies naturally), first job, moods, first child, retirement, and death. Afterward the reader has experienced a character's life and times in under a half hour.
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