...Red from green The short story “Red from green” is written by Maile Meloy and we follow a young girl, Sam, during a couple of days in the summer. The story takes place by a river in Montana in a hot July month, Sam is just turned fifteen and has been offered a scholarship to a boarding school back east, but she doesn’t know if she will go yet. It is her father who suggested her to apply. Sam is a bit quiet, and she doesn’t talk that much with her dad. Sam has never fired a gun, before Layton shows her how to. At first she doesn’t tell her father that she have done it, but then he finds a bullet and then she tell him that she have shot... Every summer she and her father take a float trip on the river. This time they are companied by her uncle Harry, a private attorney, and the central client Layton, in a class action law suit her uncle is litigating. The trip is meant to smooze the client who is thinking of dropping the suit and moving away; if he leaves, the case dries up. Throughout the day the girl watches as her father (who is a district judge) allows the man to take advantage of his desirability. The client catches fish that are too small but keeps them anyway, something her father usually has no tolerance for. Later the client takes the girl out to practice shooting, using illegal hollow point bullets. Late in the evening, after the uncle has already retired to his tent, the father also gets up from the fire and goes to his tent. Before entering it he looks back...
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...B – ”Red from Green” By Maile Meloy This is a short story by Maile Meloy and is named “Red from Green”. They are trying to tell us in this story that it isn’t easy to be able to find out who you are, what you stand for, to grow up and to discover the terrible truths about life. One day in our lives we will all find out that we have to be able to stand on our own feet’s. In a crossroad our main character, named Sam, finds herself. In the process of the story she is trying to discover things about herself, like her sexuality and where she wants to see herself in life, later on. She is forcing herself to see her father’s and her own relationship in a new way, in the time where they are at a float trip like and this grown man is on too, who shows an big interest in her. In her process in the story she reaches an emotionally place in herself were she can separate herself from her father and begin to be a more independent women, because she doesn’t see herself as an innocent girl anymore but rather as a young woman. The short story is not only told from a one person perspective, but from a third person perspective and also from Sam’s perspective. Sam is a fifteen year old girl, who is about to start her second year as a student. She has American routes from the little town Montana. Sam’s lives with her father because her mother died, which has created a stronger bond between them that they didn’t have before. Her dad wasn’t very excited about the fact that Sam had been offered...
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...A fiction Red to Green by Maile Meloy is a story about a girl named Sam. This story is basically about a girl who is offered a scholarship to a boarding school hesitates to accept it then after what happened while her trip she decides to accept the offer. The main happening that affects her mind to accept a scholarship and leave far away from home happens when Sam, her father, her uncle, and her uncles client Layton take the float trip down the river. The reason she was hesitating to accept the offer in my opinion is because Sams mother died and there are only Sam and her father living in her house so she did not want to leave her father alone and leave far away from home. The father feels same as what Sam feels. It was his idea of Sam going to the boarding school but then after she got the offer, he feels dismay. In one of the night during the trip, something happens that affects Sam’s decision. Layton, a client of her uncle, sexually harasses her. S’s father left her alone with Layton and went to sleep. Of course, he did not know something will happen and did not expect it to happen and wanted it to happen. The one thing comes up in her mind after Layton harassed her is why did her father left her alone with some stranger even though they stayed together for sometime and not take care of her. After they come back home, Sam filled out the acceptance form for the scholarship to boarding school. She decided to go to the boarding school and leave her father. The first break she...
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...Red from Green Red from Green is a short story written by Maile Meloy. The story is from 2006. It consists four people: Sam, who is the main character, her father, her uncle, Harry, and his client, Layton. The story takes place at a river, where these four people are on a float trip down the river. Through the trip Layton is getting more and more interested in Sam. Sam is not sure about her being interested, but as time goes, she let him seduce her. They go for walk and Layton teaches Sam how to shoot with a gun. And at the same evening things get a bit heated up, as Sam gives him massage. But nothing serious happens. The main theme in this short story is “growing up” and “being a teenager”. Sam is about to go from being a child to being a grown up adult and this transition brings a lot of confusing to Sam. When you are a teenager you suddenly get an identity crisis, because you are lost in the middle of being a child and adult. This is seen when we hear about Sam’s feelings about her soon being a sophomore “In the fall, she would soon be a sophomore, which sounded very old to her.” (P.8 L. 4-5). Besides the identity crises, you will face a frustration over your sexuality. You suddenly realize that someone is interested in you as a woman – or a man. Sam has never experienced a man who is sexual attracted to her. So when Layton shows her his interest, she does not know how to react. Sam has just turned fifteen. She lives with her father and every year they take a trip...
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...Red from Green Growing up is a hard thing especially in the teenagers period, you don’t know how you shall act in the start, and when you become older you think too much about the way you act. The thing growing up is an important part of the short story “Red from Green”. The narrator in this story is a third person narrator, and the narrators focus is on the protagonist in the short story Sam. The narrator’s role is to observe. Since it’s an observing narrator it’s hard to get the whole picture of the relationship between Sam and her father. Sam is a 15 years old teenager from Montana, she shall start her sophomore year. Sam’s mother died when she was younger, this has affected her relationship to her father. Sam is most described by her actions, but the way she acts makes her a round character. Sam isn’t content with herself that can you see here. “She did, and hit it, and there was nothing left but a stub of branch. “Hit the branch,” Layton said. And she did. She’d never been so proud of anything.” This maybe shows that she hasn’t tried so many wild things before. After all the time with Layton Sam become more independent, because he didn’t looked at her as a kid, but more like a woman. After she began thinking like a woman, the choice about which boarding school she should go to was a bit easier. Another important person for the short story is Layton her uncle’s client. Layton is the one, who helps Sam to act more like a woman. Layton is a good shooter, and has a...
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...RED FROM GREEN The Short story Red from Green by Maile Meloy is about a fifteen year old girl named Sam Turner, who is on a four-day float trip with her father, her uncle and the uncle’s client, Layton, from his new law firm. At this trip Sam develops and discovers new things in the process of becoming an adult and to overcome the stage from being just a child. The short story takes place in Montana, where the Turner family lives. The plot takes place at a river and the surrounding areas, where they stay for the night. “It is July, and hot, and the water was low” (p. 8, l. 2). The setting does on a symbolic level indicate the untamed nature, and the wild sides in the human. The floating river symbolizes how the actions in the plot just float, and they get grabbed by the atmosphere. It takes place in the summer, and Sam, who is the main character, stands in front of a very important decision. Her father had entered her to a boarding school for Sam’s sophomore year, and she got a scholarship offer. The mention of the topic makes them both feel uncomfortable. “… but neither of them could bring themselves to talk about it” (p. 8, l. 8-9) The father is a very caring parent. Sam’s mother is dead, which implies that the father had dismayed about it. Maybe it is because he feels he is going to lose her, or probably miss the chance of seeing her grow up to be an adult. He had openly applied because everyone thought it was a great idea because the fact is that it was a better opportunity...
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...Red from green - analysis Life is a journey. A journey filled with love, grief, tears, joy and sorrow. A journey of different stages in your personal development. First, you are an innocent and joyful child, then you turn into an insecure and self-doubting teenager, and then you will hopefully turn into a responsible and independent adult. Life can be though at any times, but especially the teenage years can be challenging. You may begin to question whether you need parent attention or not, you feeling towards the opposite sex change, and you feel more rebellious. This is exactly what happens with the main character, Sam, in Malie Meloy’s short story, “Red from Green”. The story revolves around fifteen year old Sam. Sam is a typical teenage girl, insecure and fragile. This show in the following quote from the text: She was akward at fifteen, and praise made her suspicious. This also tells us that she is not very confident about herself, and she does not believe it when people compliment her. Sam goes through a huge personal development during the float trip. When she goes shooting with Layton, he gives her an attention she has never experienced before. As a fifteen year old girl, this is probably the first time a man ever lays eyes on her, and finds her attractive. This makes her feel a sexual desire for the first time in her life. This can be seen in the following quotation: When Layton came through the trees she knew that she’d wanted him to show up, though she hadn’t known...
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...Red From Green Malie Maloy, 2009 The summer she turned fifteen, Sam Turner took her last float trip down the river with her father. It was July, and hot, and the water was low. Hardly anyone was on the river but them. They had two inflatable Avon rafts with oaring frames—Sam and her father in one, her uncle Harry and a client from Harry’s new law firm in the other. In the fall, she would be a sophomore, which sounded very old to her. She’d been offered a scholarship to a boarding school back East, but she hadn’t accepted it yet. Applying had been her father’s idea, but now he looked dismayed every time the subject came up. Everyone said what an opportunity it was, so much better than the local schools, but she couldn’t bring herself to fill out the forms, and neither of them could talk about it. Sam had been down the river every summer for as long as she could remember—in a dozen rainstorms, and in hot sun that burned the print of swimsuit straps into her shoulders. (…) It was a four-day float trip, or five if you dawdled, or three if her father had to get back to work. Her uncle’s client was the reason they were on the river so late in the summer, when it was all sandbars and rocks. Sam hadn’t been told that, exactly, but it was the feeling she got, that they were going for this client. He had come from somewhere else, and was staying in Montana only for the case. She met him at the put-in, unloading the gear. Harry introduced her as his niece. “You got a name?” the client...
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...The short story "Red from Green" was written by Maile Meloy in 2009. The story is about a fifteen year old girl called Sam. Sam is from Montana, which is also where the setting is played. The narrator - Maile Maloy - is born and raised in Montana. This might be why she chose to set the setting here. Sam's mother is dead, so Sam lives alone with her father. Sam and her father's relationship seem very good. Sam's a near-future sophomore, but has recently been offered a scholarship to a boarding school back east - she hasn't accepted the offer yet. Originally the "going to boarder school thing" was the father idea, but every time the subject came up, he looked very dismayed. (P. 8 L. 6-7). She is very insecure in herself and her choices, which we can see by her way of doubting a lot when having to take choices throughout the story - "She had a sense that she wasn't equipped for it (boarding school). And she was wondering if she really had perfect teeth (she was told that she had perfect teeth earlier in the story)". (P. 9 L. 62-63). For as long as Sam can remember, she has always been down the river every summer with her father. No matter how the weather was - "in dozen rainstorms, and in hot sun that burned the print of swimsuit straps into her shoulders."(P. 8 L. 10-12). But in the story we experience their last float trip down the river. Sam and her father went down the river with her uncle - Harry - and her uncle's client - Layton. At a time in the story Sam and Layton are...
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...Assignment B Red from Green is a short story written by Maile Meloy (from 2006). The personnel consist of just four people: Sam, her father, her uncle named Harry and his client, Layton. Sam is the main character – a girl. Although the name itself is for both sexes (e.g. short form for Samantha or Samuel) it is clear from the third word in the beginning that in this story Sam is a girl’s name. The story takes place in Montana at a river where the four characters are on a float trip down a river. Montana is the author’s home and one oft he most sparsely populated areas in the United States. The narrator stays close to Sam. Sam has just turned fifteen and has been offered a scholarship to a boarding school. In the beginning of the story she is yet unsure whether to accept it or not. But her personality changes within the story – and so does the decision pro or con boarding school: when we meet Sam in the beginning she is still a girl. Sam takes the same trip like every childhood years before. She and her father had been there before „as long as she can remember“. Obviously the trip is a sacred summer family routine, Father and daughter go into the wilderness to spend time together. But this year things do turn differently: Sam wasn’t the little girl she was many years before. She is more and more grown up and experiences the trip in a completely different way than all the previous years. Already in the first sentence the narrator tells that this was going to be her „last...
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...Red from Green It’s not easy growing up. Finding out who you are and discovering the hard truths about life. Inevitably we will all have to someday be able to stand on our own two feet, while in the process discovering things about ourselves such as our sexuality and where we want to head in life. In the short story “Red from Green” by Maile Meloy, It is at this crossroad that our protagonist, Sam, finds herself. She is forced to see herself and her father in a new light following a float trip where a grown man shows an interest in her. “Red from Green” is narrated from a third person perspective, and from Sam’s perspective. Sam is a 15-year old American teenager from Montana who is about to start her sophomore year. Because Sam’s mother died she lives alone with her father which has created a strong bond between them. Therefore they did not like to talk much about the fact that Sam had been offered a scholarship to a boarding school. She had not decided to take it yet and she was unsure how her father felt about it, “Applying had been her father’s idea, but now he looked dismayed every time the subject came up” (p. 1, l. 6-7). Sam and her father had been on this kind of float trip many times before, although this time her uncle and his client joined them. She thought the purpose of the trip might in fact be to gain the goodwill of this new client, “…it was the feeling she got - that they were going for the client” (p. 1, l. 15). The client, Layton, very quickly made an impression...
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...Red from Green – OPG B Growing up is inevitable, the transition from being a child to being an adult is not easy. It’s a process where you have to define yourself, and start taking responsibility for your actions. A process in which the individual will experience standing alone, facing decisions, that’s decisive for the rest of the life. It’s in this transition, each person determines their own personality, and learns of the perks as well as the disadvantages of being an adult. Red from Green, by Maile Meloy, regards this subject. In the story we meet our protagonist Sam, who’s forced to find herself, as a series of events causes her to see her father and life itself in a different perspective. Sam is a regular girl, who’s facing the choice of leaving her home for a scholarship at a respected boarding school, or staying in her hometown. She’s a smart girl, but she still posses a child’s naivety. She’s having a hard time accepting she’s beginning to evolve into a grown woman. ”in the fall, she would soon be a sophomore, which sounded very old to her.” (P.8 L. 4-5)-quote1. She doesn’t think of herself as being a sophomore, and to decide if she’s going to accept the scholarship is almost impossible. Sam’s father doesn’t contribute with the usual advices in the regarded matter, and that makes Sam even more unsecure. “Applying had been her father’s idea, but now he looked dismayed every time the subject came up” (P. 1. L. 6-7)- quote2. She’s forced to make the decision on her...
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...Essay - Red from green – The physical changes, the insecurity, the desire of being independent and the need of confirmation are all a part of the transformation of becoming adult. Everybody has to go through the stages, where everything seems new and different – even yourself. This transformation has been described in the most famous stories, such as “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Sleeping Beauty”, and is also being described in the short story by Maile Meloy; “Red from green”, where the young girl Sam is experiencing the changes from childhood to adulthood very abruptly. When reading the short story you are not in any doubt of the main theme, which is the above-mentioned “the change from child to adult”. This is seen throughout the whole story, from even the small reactions running through her body, such as her insecurity and blushing when being complimented (l. 44; p. 2)) , to her very first experience with her sexuality in the form of physical contact with the grown up man: Layton (ll. 145-157; pp. 2-3). Beside that, the act of distancing from her father is also a part of growing old, and this is a very essential point of the story, since she decides to leave him, when accepting the scholarship from the boarding school. The shape of Sam’s state of mind is additionally confirming this changing. Sam is a very representative teenager in the middle of the puberty. She is really going through a development through the story; starting from a point, where the adultness has...
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...father also gave up the possibility of having a relationship with his daughter, “Her father picked up the bullet, rolled it in his hands, held it between his fingers. It was copper-cased, spayed out in a blossom of dull lead where the tip had been. “Where’d you find this?” he asked. “I shot it.” She waited for the next question. He said nothing, but held out the slug to her, and she took it.” He gives us an impression that shows, that he does not care about what she does and father also gave up the possibility of having a relationship with his daughter, “Her father picked up the bullet, rolled it in his hands, held it between his fingers. It was copper-cased, spayed out in a blossom of dull lead where the tip had been. “Where’d you find this?” he asked. “I shot it.” She waited for the next question. He said nothing, but held out the slug to her, and she took it.” He gives us an impression that shows, that he does not care about what she does and father also gave up the possibility of having a relationship with his daughter, “Her father picked up the bullet, rolled it in his hands, held it between his fingers. It was copper-cased, spayed out in a blossom of dull lead where the tip had been. “Where’d you find this?” he asked. “I shot it.” She waited for the next question. He said nothing, but held out the slug to her, and she took it.” He gives us an impression that shows, that he does not care about what she does and father also gave up the possibility of having a relationship...
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...Red from Green by Maile Meloy Red from Green is a short story written by Maile Meloy. The short story is from 2009, and it consists four people. The first person we see in the short story is Sam, who is the main character, her father, her uncle, Harry, and his client, called Layton. The short story takes place at a river in Montana, where the four people are on a float trip. The main theme in this short story is “Teenage life” and “Growing up”. The main character is Sam and she has just turned fifteen. She lives with her father and every year, they take a trip down the river. This year Sam is taking her last trip with her father. She has been offered a scholarship for a boarding school, which she does know if she is going to accept. "Growing up” is never easy. People is about to go from being a “child” to being a “grown up adult”. In the process of these discoveries, you somehow learn how to stand on your own two feet, whiteout help from your parents. The transformation Sam is going throw brings a lot of confusing to her, because she is confronted with her own sexuality for the first time, when a grown man shows interest in her. When you are going throw, the development from being a “child” to be an “adult” can it be very hard and stressful for some young people. When the kids was small, they tried to act like their parents; they tied to take “notes” of how an adult is, and what is right and wrong. They wanted to be, like their own parents and they maybe tried, to figure...
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