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P.E.E. structure

POINT, EVIDENCE, EXPLANATION

[POINT]Mr. Mumsford feels that killing a man is wrong. [EVIDENCE]

When he confronts the principal in the hallway, baseball bat in hand, beads
of sweat stand out on his forehead and he clenches the basball bat (l.13).
The reader is also informed that he has raised and killed rabbits as early as
a boy (ll.1-2) and that he is not suffering from any guilt or philosophical
questions about the act of killing the rabbits (ll.2-4). [EXPLANATION]
Beads of sweat on the forehead and overly contracted muscles are physical
signs of great stress, an emotion that we know to be absent from his
previous animal kills. Therefore Mr. Mumsford reacts quite differently to
the prospect of killing a man than he does with rabbits. He knows that a
kill is not a kill and the thought of taking a man‘s life puts him under great
visible pressure.