...Grove 1. Write a summary of Grove in about 150 words. 2. Characterize the two main characters and their relationship 3. Comment on the ending 4. In a short essay (150-200 words) discuss what you can do to help a friend or partner who is an alcoholic. ------------------------------------------------- Summary “Grove” is an American short story written by Erin Brooks Worsley in the year 2006. The story takes place in Florida, in a town called Frostproof. The main characters are a woman and a man without any names. They are a couple in a relationship. In the story they are visiting his parents. The woman has a drinking problem. The man is married to another woman but is still in a relationship with the main character. They are going out on a lake where they have an argument about their future. The man really wants to have kids, and his wife is not able to. He would like the woman to stop drinking, because pregnant women do not drink. The man’s mom knows what all this is about and talks to the woman about the problem. In the end the mother asks the woman to leave. Characterize On of the main characters is a woman who is visiting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. It sounds like she grew up in the city, why she is not used to mosquitos opposite to the man who grew up near a lake. In the story we hear about the woman’s drinking problem and how it conflicts with the man’s wish to get children. The woman is several times confronted with her problem...
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...Short Story Reader Response Title: what we talk about when we talk about love Author: Raymond Carver Theme Compose a complete sentence that states the author’s purpose (meaning or main point) in the story. What we talk about when we talk about love, written by Raymond Carver, talks about what true love is in everyone’s mind. Setting Describe the occasion, time, place, atmosphere, etc. Give details. The setting is very casual. Two couples are just talking during their spare time in the kitchen of one’s home. It is a good sunny afternoon, relaxed, and also not an annoying rainy or windy day. “My friend Mel McGinnis was talking.” “The four of us were sitting around his kitchen table drinking gin. Sunlight filled the kitchen from the big window behind the sink. There were Mel and me and his second wife, Teresa-Terri, we called her- and my wife, Laura.” Language Cite some quotations (at least three) that are particularly meaningful or interesting. Explain why you chose each. “He kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, you bitch.’” Terri was memorizing what Ed said to her when he beat her. What Ed said was kind of contradictory. Did he hate Terri, or did he love Terri. In Terri’s mind, this is a different way to show his love, but as I know, this is love, while a sick way. The contradictory way he said can show this very completely. Just a several words, but readers can feel what kind of person Ed is. “‘Terri’s a romantic. Terri’s of the kick-me-so-I’ll-know-you-love-me...
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...Summary of Grove The short story is about a man and a women, who's names we are not given. They visit his parents in Florida. They live in a trailer next to an orange grove. On the second day he has an accident on a motorbike. He hurts his ribcage but he doesn't want her help. Their relationship is strained. She is an alcoholic, he has left his wife, but they are still married. At night she sneak into the bathroom to drink some whisky. The next day they take a boat out. They sail around and talk. They come to a dock and tie up the boat. Here they meet some elder women, who gives them some beers. She gets to much to drink and when they come back to the trailer she stumbles in a carpet and is put to bed. When she wakes up, his mother asks her to tell her son that she is sick, and that she wants to leave which they do. Characterize the two main characters and their relationship The two main characters in this story is the narrator and her boyfriend. We aren't told much about them. We don't know what they look like, how old they are, occupation and so on. There is no direct description of them. Their relationship is strained because she drinks. They have had problems for a while. This is made obvious when he says, You can stop apologizing …... I've heard it enough (page 1 (8), line 17). Every time she tries to show him affection he pushes her away except once. At night, at the day of the accident, he pulls her close to him when she asks him if he is hot. I...
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...Grove 1. Write a summary of Grove in about 150 words. Grove is a short story written by Erin Brooks Worley. The story is about an alcoholic woman that is visiting her boyfriend’s parents. The second day of their visit the boyfriend crashes on his father’s motorbike. After everyone falls asleep that night the woman sneaks out into the bathroom were her shampoo bottle, with her whiskey, stands. She takes a couple shots thinking her boyfriend won’t smell it and goes back to bed. The next morning her boyfriend tells her he can smell it. Later that day they take to boat and sails out at the lake, where he turns off the motor and they start talking about kids and how they can’t have any because of her drinking. At night, after they got back, the narrator is talking to her boyfriend’s mother, while the boyfriend and his father goes to the shop, who tells her she need to stop drinking. By the time the boys got back the boyfriend’s mother talked the narrator into going home. On the way home the narrator’s boyfriend turns off the light on the car and drives in complete darkness for a while. 2. Characterize the two main characters and their relationship. The narrator is an alcoholic woman, who is trying to find out what to do in her life. She doesn’t want to hurt anyone with her problem, but she does because she won’t be able to have children. The boyfriend is a bit quiet, he tries to overlook her problem but it’s hard when she smells of alcohol. He wants children, but can’t have...
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...Rendezvous Short summary The story is about a man called Payton and a girl called Kim. It starts like it’s to stories we’re reading at the same time and ends up as one. Payton is driving on the interstate. He’s driving faster and faster. He is drinking while driving. He has got a cobra tattoo on his biceps. He hates the priest for encouraging him to tell the police what he has done. At the same time a girl called Kim is running away from her parents. She’s tired of being yelled at by her parents. She hopes by running away her parents will be more understanding and her friends in school will get sympathy. Suddenly when she’s hitchhiking Payton drives by and stops. She walks towards the car…. Essay Payton is a grown-up man with anger. Doesn’t seem to be aware of what consequences his reactions could cause. His I driving while intoxicated (DWI). His heart is filled with hate. He has done something terrible which he won’t tell the police. He thinks the priest is a pain in the neck. Maybe he feels remorse. One thing is for sure; we don’t know what he’s capable of. There are some excellent metaphors in the text. The Author has thought a lot about using symbolism. For example, Payton who has got a cobra tattoo and Kim who eats an apple. That’s a metaphor for Adam and Eva. The tattoo is the snake and the apple is of course from the tree in paradise. The short story is written in present and it takes place on the interstate. Both Payton and Kim are on the interstate...
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...Summary The story is about a family with a father named Oskar, a mother named Margret and their 6 year old son named Jonas. They spend their weekend together in a cabin near a lake. After dinner the father Oskar and the son Jonas are going out on the water to fish from their boat. The mother is not agreed because it is late. They do not catch anything on their fishing tour and Oskar decides to turn back home. Oskar gives Jonas a few tours before they are going home, so he opened the throttle as far as he can, and then the boat thrust the tiller hard, and the boat capsizes. They went under water and Oskar can’t see Jonas anywhere. Then two men come to save them. Oskar and Margret are sitting outside with Wilhelm and Bjorn and drinking whiskey. Margret is going in to see to her son every 5 minute. When Wilhelm and Bjorn leave, Margret just stares out at the lake and Oskar ask her what happened. And then Margret says, “You let go of him”. Characterize: Margret is mother to Jonas and has a husband named Oskar. She is very worried about her son and loves him very much. She is a very good mother, because she cares a lot about her son, and when Jonas sleeps she looks after him every five minutes. Oskar is father to Jonas and is Margret’s husband. He drinks much. He loves his son Jonas, but he doesn’t think much about safety. When he drives boat fast, he doesn’t think that it could be dangerous. He should remember that his son is only 6 year old and if there’s an accident,...
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...career, he is perhaps best known for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays and films. He is also well known for his philanthropic work in Detroit, Michigan where he founded four charities. Main characters: The Narrator / Maria - This person narrates the novel. This character is the child of a self-destructive person. Charles “Chick” Benetto – a former baseball player. A son who always took his mother’slove for granted. Pauline “Posey” Benetto – Chick’s mother. Len Benetto – Chick’s Father. A former Soldier of World War II. A man who just thinks of what he likes and what he wants Catherine – Chick’s wife. After Posey’s death and Chick’s alcoholism she divorced him but they partially reconciled after Chick’s encounter with his dead mother Maria – Chick and Catherine’s daughter. She was born at height of Chick’s failed athletic career. She took a sport’s writing job when she was a college student Roberta – Chick’s younger sister. As a child she loves to wear ballerina shoes. She also lost contact with Chick when he was already alcoholic. Summary For One More Day by Mitch Albom is a beautiful, very touching story of a man whose life had been shattered by drinking, regret, loss and grievances. Charley “Chick” Benetto was all decided to kill himself. He was scammed into investing their family savings (he had to explain to his wife where the money went), he began drinking, he...
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...Echo and Narcissus Introduction This is an old story about a Greek myth. The story is told in the III Book of the Metamorphoses. It was then retold by Roger Lancelyn Green (1918-1987) an English novelist. The characters in this story are mainly Greek mythology characters such as: Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Echo, Narcissus, a nymph and another god. Exposition In a mountain in Greece lived the Ureades, nymphs or fairies. There was this beautiful nymph, which was one of the most talkative called Echo. She loved to talk and made Hera, wife of Zeus, king of the gods, jealous and angry, because Zeus was spending too much time with Echo instead of her. Rising Action One day Zeus gets bored and tired of the golden halls in Mount Olympus, so he decided to come down to Earth and wander with the nymphs in the mountains. Hera, however, started getting jealous, so she often came to spy on Zeus. It seemed strange to Hera at first that Echo didn’t stop talking. Then she realized that Echo was doing it on purpose to detain her while Zeus sneaked quietly to Mountain Olympus without her noticing. Climax Hera gets really angry so she throws a spell to Echo where she could only repeat what others said. She couldn’t speak unless someone else spoke first. Hera, left poor little Echo, sweeping sadly among the rocks of the mountain sides speaking only the words that her family and friends said to each other. Falling action There was this beautiful youth called Narcissus...
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...A) A summary of the story: The story is about the young couple Kenny and Marie. Kenny has rented a decayed flat which he has enabled. He has no job, but he is helping his brother-in-law, who gives him a sofa and some paint. His girlfriend Maria is pregnant. One day Maria comes over, Kenny shows proudly his flat to her. But Marie did not seem impressed. He cooks for her but the atmosphere seems uptight. After the dinner Maria will like to watch TV, but she changes her mind, and goes home. Kenney takes a bath and smokes a joint to forget all until next morning. The next day he eats dinner with his parents. On the way home he drinks a beer to forget all. The next day, he spends all the day in bed. He called Marie. She sounds happier and tells that her father has got a job again. Now everything will be easier. She says she would like to come over the next evening. Kenney was forced to borrow money from his mother, that he could afford food. They make dinner together. The next morning Maria goes home, but she is coming back few days later. This time they sleep together for the first time in a while. Next morning they are going to paint the flat. Maria decides it should be blue. The smell of the paint is making Maria a bit of sick, and she goes for a walk. When Kenny had finish painting he hands the keys back to the neighbour and leaves the estate onto the main road. B) An essay about the text: The theme in the story is love and the young people’s problems. This story illustrates...
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...When I read the book Cathedral. The narrator's relationship with his wife was one of isolation and distanced silence. However, Isolation is a frequent theme of the Carver's short stories. But Robert, poor hopeless blind man who is the isolated from other people by his inability to see physically. The one who does builds and maintains the Cathedral of the human connection, which is the antithesis of isolation. There seems to be hostility and much more of bitterness in the narrator's tone(voice) and isolation from his loving wife. This is either the progress of the cause of his drinking. her hopeless responses to feelings of utter loneliness results of the isolation that she feels deep inside. . Also, she is very upset and disappointed...
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...A summary of are you ready, Boots? Miss Lulu lives in London. The beginning of the story she is on a four days trip in New York, she buys some fancy shoes, which costs her a lot of money. After she returns from her short trip to New York, she is invited by her friend to a restaurant which was about to be launched. Lulu dresses up for the event wearing her boots that she bought in New York. In the restaurant she meets, a man named Charlie and from there they expands their acquaintance. Couple of dinner dates after Lulu meets his parents and they seems to like her, and Charlie was in love with her. Meanwhile Lulu begins to doubt a little. Charlie take Lulu on a weekend trip and asks her to marry him and she says yes. One day Lulu puts her fancy shoes on and Charlie talks badly about them then she says ‘’ Are you ready boots?’’ start walking.’’ Characterization Lulu is young woman, above the thirty, because it says in the text, she left school for ten years ago. She is in touch with her feminine side, she likes to shop outfits, she dresses up in a way she attracts the opposite sex, or at least she thinks it does. She has an active life style; she likes going out drinking, travel and flirting. She seems like she is exploring life on her own way, she lives her life through her own choices, even if her close ones gives her different advices. Based on the choices she make you can say she is very spontaneous, she buys expansive shoes and regrets letter, and she married...
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...of Contents Page Sypnosis 3 Summary 3 The Most Favorite Part 4 5 Sentences/Phrases 4 The Things Learned from the Book 5 Recommendation 5 Sypnosis This story is a fantasy about a family named Tuck who accidentally stumble upon a spring in a wood, which has the ability to give eternal life. They don’t realize at first what they have drunk until they realize that their bodies are not aging and they cannot be hurt or harmed in any way. They travel quietly around the countryside; never staying in one place too long so that people will not realize their secret. Into this family comes Winnie Foster, a little girl in search of freedom. She learns their secret and falls in love with them so deeply that she will do anything to protect them. The family and Winnie then must face a villain who would steal their secret for himself. Summary A ten year old Winnie comes from a well-bred and strait-laced family who keep her safe behind a four-foot iron fence that surrounds their home. She lives a life of boredom and frustration. They are the oldest family in the town, and own the surrounding woods. When running away from her confinement and into the woods one morning, she finds a beautiful tree from which a spring of water pours, with a teenage boy - almost a young man - drinking from it. This discovery leads her to learn of the Tuck family...
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...What is The Messenger about? Simply put, The Messenger describes to us what’s important in our day to day lives, it is about setting a course for an individual to follow, and about how we create our own stories in life to get by each day. This is very apparent in the style of the text, Markus Zusak, the author of The Messenger, pulls the reader into the challenges and confrontations one might face in their own lives, making the novel a relatable, satirical and entertaining piece of writing. Ed Kennedy is the protagonist of the novel, Ed is an underage cab driver, a pathetic card player, a hopeless romantic and utterly devoted to his coffee drinking dog, The Doorman. Ed considers himself somewhat of a nobody, a washed up loser and that his...
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...Critical Essay: Elements of Literature in Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” Is a well written shorty story filled with many significant literary elements. Firstly we will write about the plot, the overall summary of the story, and the main themes, the central ideas of this tale. The plot of "The Cask of Amontillado" is a great account of vengeance. The assassin promises “revenge” upon Fortunato for an “insult.” The main theme revolves around the assassin plans to pursue vengeance in support of his family motto: "Nemo me impune lacessit. This means “no one cuts (attacks) me with impunity.” On the coat of arms of his family, which bears this motto, looks "a huge human foot d'or, in a field of azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are embedded in the heel.” Thus reflects the theme of vengeance because the assassin’s plan of revenge on Fortunato for an insult. Secondly we have characterization, the personalities of the characters of the characters produced. The true focus lies upon the assassin, the wicked Montresor. Montresor is an evil man who is happy at his chance to murder. The costume that Fortunato donned on the night of his murder was that of a jester, while appropriate...
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...Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Part 7: Part 8: Part 9: Part 10: Part 11: Appendix Appendix Introduction to the section Assessment information for this section Reading complex texts Defining the writer’s purpose Identifying the source of a text Identifying the target audience Summarising texts Identifying the writer’s attitude Evaluating a written communication Summary of this Study Section Answers to SAQs A B 3 7 9 13 19 31 37 45 49 55 63 69 70 Acknowledgements Grateful thanks are given for permission to use the following copyright materials. ‘Excluded by the system’ © The Sunday Times 7/5/2000 (http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/) ‘Fair Trade spotlight falls on pricey CDs’ © Adam Sherwin/The Times 10/2/2001 ‘Fan moves 5,000 miles to be nearer Man U’ © John Mahoney/Daily Star 12/2/2001 ‘Man or Mouse’ © Daily Star 12/2/2001 ‘Pay per view TV at the Beeb’ © George Cole/Computer Buyer November 2000 ‘Improving the hell holes’ © The Guardian (leader) 7/2/2001 ‘How to pay for a free lunch’ Ian Burley/Personal Computer World March 2001 ‘A leopard can't rebrand its spots’ © Charlie Fletcher/Scotland on Sunday 4/3/2001 ‘He loves me! He thinks I’m an old Land Rover’ © Sue Hepworth/The Times (Weekend Supplement) 10/2/2001. Illustration © Maria Colino. ‘A ruined life given heroic status’ Kirsty Scott/The Herald 5/5/1999 Every attempt has been made to contact copyright owners. Learning and Teaching Scotland apologise for any omission which, if notified, we will be pleased to rectify at the earliest...
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