IR Blogpost 7

After learning about what had happened to his father, the next morning, Edgar sat in the apple tree outside the kitchen window and spied on the goings-on. When Claude came out, Claude didn't see Edgar, but then while Edgar had been well disguised, Claude looked straight at him. That was a little creepy. Claude did not let it show, but he felt uncomfortable by the forwardness of Edgar's gaze. Claude thought that Edgar might know something. Later, Edgar became overcome with a desire to kill Claude for what he had done, but he couldn't do it.

Part of the night when Edgar saw his father, was when Gar told Edgar to find a name. Edgar found it after a lot of searching and he was led to a series of letters about a dog that was so devoted to his deceased owner that it went to the train station everyday to wait for his master, even though his master never came. The quote at the bottom was what Edgar's father's ghost had said. "I am no dream, his father had been saying. It's happened before"(269). When I read that, it just struck me as being a very powerful sentence. The dog had been seeing his master like Edgar saw his father.