3. The man means that if the boy does not face the challenge in the act of taking another life, face the barrel so to speak,he wouldn't be able to kill later in life. This was it. He repeats the sentence to show, the impotence od the deed.

6. He feels small, not up to measure. Shown when he is struggling to keep up. But after the killing, a change has happened in the boy. Suddenly when he walks, he walks with strenght. With ease even. The change is the killings. He witness the power the barrel holds, the total power and control over life and death. How abrupt life can be taken, and without any sense. "leave them to rot" says the man. You suddenly hold in your hand what we for many years thought only god would be powerful enough to process. But there he stand almost godlike himself. He feels the power run through him. …show more content…
"Cathredal river gums", "sun filtered" Reminds me of christian values and churches. The sun through the leaves, makes me think of the presence of a higher being.

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The boy feels empty, dissapointed by what did not acure when he shot the animal. One could wonder that, the preparations following uo to the act, became bigger then the act itself, did for the boy. He thought that this would be the life changing tranformation from a boy to a man. But he was sorely mistaken.

13. unaware, numb - autoreflex, is the word I would use to describe both the way the boy shoots and how he shoots. HE is disconnected from the riffel he is carrying. I'm not there.

14. he sees his father as some kind of supreme being, given the animals the kiss of death. and like a god he sees him without mercy or understanding, as a supreme being wouldn't have for lesser beings.

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The boy snapped. The meaningless killings, the cold and acute way the murders was carried out, made the boys innocencen wither up and die.