Tilt a Whirl John

Tilt a Whirl John (review 4)

By: Dalton Nixon

            “Help Wanted” read the sign hung on the fence. Such a sign may be very convincing to young sixteen year old boy who ran away from home.  But the maker of the sign turned out to be an evil old man who didn’t offer a good job at all. He instead made him whack the tops of beats with a hoe shortened so he couldn’t lean on it. When he went to quit the owner took the hoe and beat him with it, leaving him demobilized for weeks. Just when things couldn’t get worse his boss snuck into his camp to kidnap a girl in the same building. So the boy using all of his might hit in in the head as hard as he could with the hoe. Then he ran into the road and collapsed.

            So the life of the young sixteen year has taken a change for the worst, but luckily for him there in the road he is picked up by carnies. He awakens in a semi-truck with a big bald man, woman and a man driving. As it becomes the man driving’s name was tilt a whirl john is the man who will teach the boy to be a carnie. Tilt a whirl John teaches the boy how to run the tilt a whirl, how to speed it up enough to make the big fat wallets of the men fall out and the change to fall out of a purse. Life is going great until a man comes in whom even calm tilt a whirl john can’t stand, the man changes all the carnies life for good.

 Who is this boy you may ask, well his name is never told throughout the story. Instead his life changing, shocking events that makes him who he is.