Child by Tiger - human good and evil

Authors have the ability to create a story that deeply relates to the human experience. They can create characters that resemble real people on both the outside and inside. Their actions show how people feel inside. In The Child by Tiger (reprinted in Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp, Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 6th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1993]), the author Graham Greene has done just that. Dick Prosser is used to actively portray the usually visible good portion of the human being, as well as the evil that is commonly hidden within.
During the first half of the story, Dick Prosser seemed to have the traits of the purest person. He was a very plain man, who likewise led a very plain life. His one room home was kept clean and orderly on a daily basis, which showed that he was a simple man with only basic needs. The one possession of his that he greatly valued was his bible, which he kept in the center of his room. “…an old bible almost worn out by ...