The thematic connection I found with one of the few short stories that I have read in class was with The Man Who Loved Flowers by Stephen King. The picture on the left is a man who has one side of his face burned off while the other side of his face is unharmed. The picture on the left makes a great connection with the story because the character in The Dark Knight faced is half burnt off while the other side is in perfect condition. The man in the other story comes off as a nice person who is buying flowers for a loved one but then in the end the reader finds out that the love of the man is dead assuming that he killed her years ago. In the story The Man Who Loved Flowers turns out to be a serial killer who kills women who he first assumes was his past love but once he has a good look at the girl whom turns out not to be his love he kills them with a hammer. The picture shows that this man has two completely different personalities because as soon as he has killed the person he returns to himself a very happy man. Another reason why I felt that this picture has a great connection to the story because when one hasn’t seen the whole of a person meaning their true colours they don’t really know much about that person. If you were to look at only one side if the picture let’s take the burnt side of his face you may think that he is only evil. This is the same thing with The Man Who Loved Flowers because if one only knew that he was a serial killer who kills women who look like his former love then one may think that he was always like that. This was a perfect picture to describe the theme of the story because it was portrayed to make the reader think that this man was all good until the very end of the story, and the picture is of a two faced man. This is like the split personality of the character in The Man Who Loved Flowers.
