Talk:Chilling Effects/@comment-17202881-20130902022844


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This is for the inquisitive. The black robes and Egri "Meap" Rgr's name have much significance and both are related to each other. His name is actually the rearrangement of Grim Reaper. Needless to say the Grim Reaper is often depicted wearing robes. Jonas believed that Egri's hair was red and the narrator describes his hair as blonde. Their perceptions contradicted each other, but neither was necessarily wrong about Egri's appearance. My version of the Grim Reaper is a comforting force, rather than a malicious monstrosity. He takes on any appearance that is very comforting to the dying. In this case he appears like a feminine boy to the narrator, who often described him as fascinating, when in reality he is alluring to a certain extent. Perhaps he took on an appearance of some girl that the narrator fancied, but he could not be a girl because the charactes came from an all boys academy. The story takes place in 1938--a year before WWII. Egri informs the narrator that his father will die in this conflict, but attempts to comfort him by stating that his father's last memories would be of him.