This passage was INCREDIBLY exhaustive in its delving into a single situation and the way it connects back to common values while simultaneously adhering to some of the tried and true literary techniques- hard to do with dialogue heavy scenes. Your prose sort of makes me think back to the brain candy to be had from watching something like Ghost in the Shell, Breaking Bad or Hero.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I admit that looking into that scene and seeing it beyond the transformation (whether cool or scary to the viewer) that the movie doesn't do too much to explain (other then a few sold to signs) and looking into the characters motivations was an interesting exercise.

While the movie Coachman was probably just a monster who did it for the money and couldn't care less about what the boys went through during or after (e.g., not caring about how the boys must feel about him forcing them to be something they don't want to be), I wanted to delve further into it. I want to examine what might motivate someone with the power to turn boys into donkeys (even if indirectly through the island) to do so. In terms of both him and his lackies, I found it interesting to ponder why they would go through such an action beyond the money and them being evil people doing evil for no reason other then to be evil.