"The Accident" by Erica Funkhouser

"The Accident"

My theory of the poem is that a boy got hit by a truck and went to the hospital. His mother jus got back from the hospital and went to her neighbor’s house. She was still wearing the same clothes. She seemed very distraught. The neighbor’s husband was making breakfast and he was very nervous “At long last he broke the eggs...into the pan to quiet the sizzling fat.” (Ll. 39-49) from these lines I was thinking that maybe the women’s husband was the driver of the truck that hit the boy. The husband was very nervous and seemed shaken up by something. There is the possibility that he was shaken up by the simple fact that his neighbor’s son got hit by a truck, but the husband being the driver is what first came to mind.