"In a house, in a suburb, in a city, there were a man and his wife who loved each other very much and were living happily ever after" (232, per. 9)
This story is told in the traditional style of a fairy tale, starting with the happily ever after. The family was loving, but the directness of the tone make it anything but a happy tail of a family. From the beginning of the story, it is directly stated that there was an abounding of love exerting from the family. If this was in fact a typical fairly tail, this love would build through out the fairy tale. In this story the opposite happens. Because of the direct tone, every detail is told to the reader, not introduced and then explained. By this, the reader knows that this story, unlike it's beginning, will not be a happy ending. The danger of the boy is first, foretold when the parents are more worried about shopping for their next safety improvement, they neglected the immediate safety of their son and let him walk away from them. In this neighborhood full of robbers and hooligans, why did they not watch their son more closely, instead of letting him walk away into the danger of the neighborhood. This proves that if you are too occupied with finding the perfect life, your life will slip away. Bad things will always happen, obsessing over thi\em might make them worse.
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