In the "Drowning Incident", McCarthy takes the reader through a young boy's perspective of his anger. The author carefully depicts a beautiful journey of innocent curiosity that foreshawdows evil.
             "As soon as the screen door slammed he rounded the corner of the house so as to be out of sight, then ran for the woodshed and put it between himself and the house. The baby was taking its nap. He was not to go far away." (McCarthy) The boy's journey begins when he is let out of the house and he sprints secretly away freely to cover. Unfortunately, he is let out because someone sees a disturbance to the sleeping baby. "Standing there in the shade of the locust tree he looked about. Some wasps were lilting to and fro in the shade under the caves."(McCarthy) A display of nature is used to soften the tone of the story." On the floor was still the old coat that he carried down here to Suzy, after he had followed her, the first day she turned up looking thin and wagging her tail, her dugs no longer dragging to the ground. The coat was matted with a crosshatching of white hairs and faint sourmilk odor of the pups still lingered. They had gone to there new home last week." (McCarthy) As we know the boy has a dog which has given birth. It is eerie when the author describes the foul smell of pups. The boys knowledge of his puppies are that they were given away.
             "In the corner at his heel there was a cricket resting in the mold, its antennae swaying in random arcs. He saw it and reached for it, but it sprang, bumping against the facing seat and falling to the floor again. he stepped on it quickly, then picked it up. It was still kicking one leg in slow lethargic rhythm; a thick white liquid was oozing from it. He dropped it down the hole and bent to watch. He could see it swaying gently in the elastic web. The black widow came threading her way toward it, and whe she reached it she began a weaving motion over it with he
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