...EVRYTHING WRONG The way a person acts or perceives things can be can be caused by many different reasons such as having a bad upbringing like in Tickits by Paul Milenski. The short story is about a male named Toby Heckler who spends his days walking around town giving 'tickits' to people who may or may not be breaking rules. In Toby's ideal world, he would have more control and everything would be in order and if not, then he would hand out a miss-spelled ticket. For example, he gives a ticket to a man for littering, "PAPUR ON GRASS" but he also gives one to another man who almost walked across the street when the sign said 'DON'T WALK'. His want for control must have stemmed from the bad upbringing he received from his single mother. Having only one parent that "[lies] on the sofa, smoking, drinking, surrounded by TV magazines"(81) all day, Toby does not have parental figure to look up to. He is not able to control his mother therefore he has his tickets. Although Toby writes tickets for his mother, he never gives them to her but keeps them in a box labelled "MUTHERS TICKITS". Having no control with his mother, Toby needs to give tickets to the people in his town. This could possibly be a case of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). It seems that the only thing Toby does all day is to give tickets to people that do not do things properly in his eyes. But the tickets are not the only proof of OCD. The way the author describes how Toby walks and holds himself is another reason...
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...Text analysis of "Tickits" by Paul Milenski 1 . Composition: a) Divide the story into 4 sections and give each section a headline. b) The opening sentence: What do we at first think Toby is? c) The ending: Is there a twist in the tale? A surprise at the end? d) Explain the title. 2. Setting: What sort of place does the story take place in? Country? What sort of family? What about the time of the story - old, modern? Time of day? 3. The main character: What sort of person is Toby? What is wrong with him? What does he like and dislike? Whom does he look up to? What sort of things matter to him - and why do they matter so much to him? Relationships: Describe Toby's mother. What is your impression of Toby's relationship to her? Why do you think Toby keeps his mother's "tickits" rather than giving them to her? Patrolman McVee: What seems to be McVee's attitude to Toby? Would he agree with Toby's mother that he's "a goddamn nut"? 4. Point of view and narrator: a) What is the point of view (synsvinkel) ofthe story? Note here that the sentence structure is fairly simple: mostly short main clauses (hovedsætninger) without any subordinate clauses (ledsætninger). b) Is the narrator omniscient, or do es he have restricted knowledge of the characters? 5. Theme, aim: a) What would you say is the theme of this short short story?? b) What might the author want to show us, what is his point? 6. Putting the text into perspective, seeing the text in...
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...------------------------------------------------- Tickits by Paul Milenski The type of narrator in the story is telling us everything about the character who meets people, and the things the character sees. Besides that, the narrator describes the character, who we follow in the story and we get to know what the character is doing. Example from the text: “Toby Heckler placed the slip of yellow paper under the windshield wiper of the black Oldsmobile that straddled two parking spaces.” We get a point of view from the narrator, where we get to know what Toby is doing, from the narrator’s perspective. The direct information we get about the characters from the narrator: “Near the First National Bank two elderly ladies waited for the bus. They stood in the middle of the sidewalk away from the curb. Toby pulled out his pad, slipped the pen off his ear, held the cap with his teeth. He printed slowly, meticulously, then handed one of the ladies the slip, “TO MUSH IN WAY” signed “TOBY.” He secured his instruments, walked along as before. The two ladies examined the slip of paper, moved closer to the curb.” The way the narrator describes the way Toby contacted the ladies without saying a word with his mouth, it tells us that Toby is probably handicap. The indirect information we get from the narrator’s description of setting, Toby’s notes and from dialogue: “On the yellow paper Toby had printed in red ink “PRAKING MISTEAK” and signed his name “TOBY” in a childish-looking hand.”...
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