Comparing elderly people with "old people, old people" and "leaving school" are all intersections about a single life, all showing a change from one person to another. The title of Fanthorpe's poetry is sorrowful and its personality is not an adult world but a fact that has come back to that old age. However, the title of William's poetry is ambiguous and misleading reader, I believe that the character has just entered the adult world at the age of 18.
A narrator, a young soldier, met an old man at a pontoon on the other side of the Ebro river. The old man sitting by the side was too tired to move forward. The narrator asked the old man about his whereabouts. The old man told the story that he belonged to San Carlos and had to leave the town and the animal for the enemy 's cannon. The narrator told the old man to take the truck to Barcelona through the street. The old man thanked the narrator, but expressed his concern about the fate of the animal - a cat, two goats and four pigeons. The narrator assured him that these animals would be good. The old man stood up and tried to walk. But he was too weak to be tired, and he fell to the ground terribly. Narrator thinks that the clouds are cloudy during the day and the fascists do not attack local people, so the luckiest thing for the elderly is that the cats can protect themselves.
Before the narrator took the lives of the old man, he heard his stable beating, his voice grew bigger and bigger he decided to take the life of the old man even once. The narrator did not leave any evidence to kill the old man, but he cut off the old man's army and put it under the floor of the old man's room. Before killing an old man, he was standing beside the door waiting to hear the heartbeat of the old man. "I thought that the heart had to explode, now a new anxiety caught me - a voice heard by my neighbor! Time of the old man is here!" (Pau, 25 years old) In the moment the narrator To him who dragged the old man and threw the bed. "Yes, he is a stone, the stone is dead, I put my hand on my heart and stayed there for a few minutes, there was no pulse, he died, when the old man dies, the narrator I cut out the body of the old man.