The book the crow written by James O’Barr is a story of despair because Eric the main character in the book shows a lot of despair. Why does he show a lot of despair because his fiancée was shot & killed by unknown person. Shelly the fiancee was very happy to get married to Eric she dancing around singing these happy songs until everything changed.In the story they put up to different mask to describe erics feelings one mask explains to us that Eric is happy one minute and painting the house & then the 2nd mask explains to us that Eric is feeling hopeless and depressed &down feeling like he has no one to run to . Eric is now hopeless a non loving person who doesn't sleep cause he wants to get back at the world because of one person who killed his fiancee. He uses different faces to express the feelings he has deep down sometimes the crow can look like a happy wonderful and joyful person but deep down we all know that he is a sad and not caring person anymore. At night the crow also known as Eric sits up thinking about the person who killed Shelly not only does he think about that but he also thinks about the times that he had with Shelly he try t to rember the good ones and not the bad ones but sometimes they pop in to his head like a movie flashing threw his head feeling the hurt and pain . The book the crow is a book of despair because as you look at the pictures you can see how much anger the crow has in him the way he looks the ways the way he acts and the feeling he shows he feels that the bullet that was for Shelly should of been for him instead of her feeling like he could of did something different instead of being in the house painting.Eric beats himself to death cutting himslef thinking that the pain would go away.
