Decomposing by Aaron Alexie

Author:Aaron, Alexie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

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With our bellies full of hardy food and our minds lulled by good spirits we departed Penzance. The ride to Bathgate was a quiet one. I was happy to have the silence to put everything I had learned this afternoon into some kind of order. Since my first exposure to murder was yet a recent one, I wasn’t quite sure how one goes about figuring out motive. Why do humans kill? I guess the easy answers are anger, greed and maybe self-defense. Defending yourself because of greed, someone wanting what you have. What did Donald have? Music, talent and quite possibly information that he had to be killed to stifle. Why try and kill Bobby or at least stop him from coming to England? Bobby was still sharp and would remember not only Donald’s fellow students but also the music each of them were working on. Angie? She had the original manuscript to Michael Sherborn’s masterpiece. Me? I had found out Donald was there at Bathgate. I wonder if now that Donald was found I would be able to stop whirling around each and every time I heard a footfall behind me. Why try to buy Bathgate with all its contents? I puzzled over this briefly and came up with: so no one would come across Donald or Michael’s manuscript. The interested party would have free reign to loot the house and music school to find and destroy the manuscript, not to mention having the time to discover if any of the previous students’ manuscripts had been presented. How many of those students died in World War II?

When I was struggling with algebra word problems, my father gave me the best advice. He said, “draw a picture.” It may have been a picture of trains starting out from different points or lumber needed to build a house. By visually understanding the word problems I was able to weed out the extraneous information and clearly deal with the clues given. This method helped me rise above the mercy D minus to a respectable B in algebra. I used it again in accounting and received an A plus. I know, I digress, get back to the story. Anyway, I have used it a lot in life. So why not use it now? I turned over one of Alex’s emails that Paz printed for me and began to jot down the facts, as I knew them so far.

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