Revised: The Gray Man

TerragonSix

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Hello again. I've posted this in the wrong section twice, so I figured on putting this in the right section this time.

If you've read the following piece of material already, you might notice that I went ahead and edited it, and added a few things. I also continued to write into the story overall, even though it feels like I am the captain on a sinking ship. This is just a little piece of it, and in its second draft. Feel free to critique and suggest things to make it better.

So here it goes:

"I am not better than anyone else in the world. Everyone has their fallibles. I am not an exception to that rule. If you met me in person, you would probably consider me a very affable and honorable man. Unfortunately, like
everyone else, I have a dark side, and my dark side occasionally manifests to transform me into a cold, calculating man with a ruthless nature. That's when I turn it loose on things I don't like, as you will soon find out.

Violence has its place in this world. People upset me when they say, "All problems can be solved without the use of violence." This is an ignorant, stupid thing to say. World War II, the Russian, American, and French revolutions. Violence, has been used to conquer nations, to pacify enemies, to support a 'just' cause, and to punish people who commit crimes.

Try to tell different religous factions about using violence, they will probably tend to agree with you; right up to the point where they go to war against another religious group, all in the name of God.

Violence is neither good or bad, but a neutral force used by living things, not just humans, to better survive or live more prosperously.

To be truthful, I have always disliked the use of violence, but sometimes there is no other way to solve problems. If there a way to divert the basic human mind of natural, impulsive and nature, perhaps violence could be avoided. But alas, we are just humans, and as Mark Twain said, "Man is the Cruel Animal. He is alone in that distinction."

Hello, by the way. My name is Gray. I bring justice to the dead and horribly wronged.

Do you notice, in mass media entertainment, the superhero that does the good and right things, always have a lot of power and money? Why is that? Why do you have to have rugged good looks, training from the best martial artists? The superhero does defying-gravity moves and lucky one-shot-making-it-or-die oppurtunities of escape.

Ah well, some of us don't have a bat cave, or a green ring to give us power. To be fair, I do have a little bit of military training, but am not a super soldier, or genetically enhanced. I don't even have those cool gadgets that every good-fighting-evil person does. So I guess I'm no hero.

I'm neither good are evil. I don't have a reason for what I do.

--Let me tell you about the first time..."
 
So, what are we supposed to do with this? It's not a story and it's not really much other than the beginning of a prolog. Why did you post this?
 
It's part of the story. Forgive me for my lack of preamble. I'm still a bit nervous about putting my stuff on here for people to read. Also, this is something I started to write three nights ago, so I don't have a lot of hard writing done.

I've always been fascinated with the idea that one person can make a difference. I'm not talking over the top, super moves like "The Punisher", or the misfit psychopath was in "Falling Down", but just a normal, ordinary guy who doesn't have any super powers, take care of those who have escaped the justice system.

I know the whole 'vigilante' idea is not a popular one, but one I'm interested in nonetheless. The person who is this is named 'Gray', but his methods of eliminating targets are neither in a evil or decent way, but in shades of gray.

The first part of the story, will be a 1st Person narrative. Later, it will be put in 3rd person perspective. I was just putting this little piece of it out there to see if it would take. That's all. :)
 
No sort of content analysis can be done on a small piece of a story. It's fine for me as a preamble, but it's just that, an opening. The writing seems fine so far. Some technical issues already. It opens with an extraneous double quote; no comma after "Violence" in pargraph two, line three; the American system doesn't use single quotes as you have done around "just" in paragraph two; a misused semicolon in paragraph three; something has gone off the parallelism track with "of natural, impulsive and nature" in paragraph five; it should be "superhero who" in paragraph seven (a person, not an object); should be "superhero . . . has" in the same paragraph (subject-verb nonagreement); and no comma after "things" in line one of the same paragraph.

But all of this is minor and can be fixed later. Bottom line is that it's too early to be asking anything about it. You seem to write well--so finish writing it and ask for review help when it's done, if you think you need review help.
 
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