DEJ+-Oliver

“I killed it myself -”, Number three boasted with his eyes in dazzle, “I can do anything, no matter how awful.” The “splattering blood on the log,” (58) As glory and pride drenched through their togs.

The poem Subverted reveals the proud and cruel characteristics of the chief and the boys. “Number three boasted with his eyes in dazzle” after he had “killed it” by himself. The imagery created portrays Number Three as a heartless and immoral character as he boasts with pride and his eyes dazzle by the sight of death. The cruelty of the boys is emphasized when Number Three profoundly states, “I can do anything, no matter how awful.” This emphasizes the cruelty of number three since it implies his willingness to do anything vile and evil. The vivid imagery of the cruel act is visualized through the “splattering blood on the log”, the splattering gives an image the animals blood smeared over the surface of the log in a disturbing manner. Lastly, the glory and pride of the boys is finally expressed through the metaphor of it being drenched over the boys clothes as if they were physically soaked by the glory and pride they had personally gained from the killing of the animal.