The Killing of a State Cop (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Simon Ortiz
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: Acoma Reservation, New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Felipe, Antonio, Luis Baca, The unnamed narrator
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Murder or homicide, Police, Native Americans or American Indians, Drinking or drunkenness, Southwest, Shooting
- Locales: Acoma Indian Reservation, NM
The Story
The twelve-year-old narrator retells a story that his friend Felipe told him shortly after Felipe and his brother Antonio shot a New Mexico state police officer. The narrator says that Felipe was not a bad person, but was a little wild. Several years older than the narrator, whom he has taken hunting and fishing, Felipe is a former marine who served in the Korean War and has now returned to the reservation.
Felipe tells his story within a story in a serious, sad manner, because he wants the narrator always to remember it. He blames the shooting on the wine he...
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