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Why, Honey?

Julkaistu , kirjoittanut
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I read Raymond Carver’s story ”Why, honey?” and I did this analysis about it, I used to help
questions from book.

When the mother heard that her son was maybe cut up Trudy, she first suspected but then she believed accusations. This cut up case only neighbors words were evidence, so I don’t keep them so accurate. I think that son’s mother did too rash conclusion about her son.

Son came home and told that he did get 80 dollars check and mother found from his pocket only 28 dollars, only thing she did get on her mind was that he lied or he were spent it something useless. This time too I think that mother was unreasonable, what if he had some good explanation where he spent his money or what if all money wasn’t on his pocket.

Mother was always worried about her son when he was gone, when she found knife full of blood and when she heard he has quiet his job, I think concern was absolutely right. Young people are use to lost with wrong society and try different things, good and bad…

At her last section she told that she wants to know how letter receiver had found her name and knew what to write about. I think that mother is desperate and she shame accusations about her son but still wants somebody to know her story. She also wanted to know why letter receiver had contacted her, why wanted to know the story?

Letter receiver was man, it shows at the begin ”Dear sir”, there is no other thing that shows it. I believe that mother writes letter to somebody who knows her son but mother herself doesn’t know him. Receiver was maybe on upper, that shows from letters end ”yours truly”. Receiver also may be close with son, because he is interested about what happened between mother and son and why they aren’t connected with each other.

Text was hard to construe and writer had left much to think to reader. Text doesn’t say issues directly and it’s confused, things jumps to other and back so it can be construed so many ways.

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Full Stop

Julkaistu , kirjoittanut
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I read Full Stop by Alecia McKenzie. The story is about Granma Scottie and  her grandchild Carmen sending letters to each other. Grandmother Scottie sends her letters without commas or full stops. She believes in god and thinks she is safe from everything evil cause of her faith. Scottie has raised Carmen and her brother because their mother could not afford it by herself. When Carmen answers to Scottie`s letters she always sends money for her to different things. Carmen`s brother rarely writes to Scottie or sends any money.
When you read the first letters  that Grandma Scottie and Carmen sends to each other i feel  that Scotties character is really strict, bossy and stubborn. When Carmen feels so understanding, kind and helpfull. Sometimes I get a feeling that Scottie uses Carmen for advantage because she always makes a new excuse to ask for money. I think there is something mean about Grandma Scottie.
Carmen doesn`t keep any contact with her mother even though her mother sends letters to her. Scottie calls Carmen`s mother a snake but still hopes that they would be in touch. In the last letters Carmen`s mother shows up to her place and tells a version about how things went when Carmen and her brother were little. I find that story very strange because comparing it to what Scottie tells it is completely different. I can`t tell wich one is the truth but I have to say that Carmen`s mother`s story sounds quite truthful to me. Somehow Scottie`s story  just doesn`t sound like things would have gone that way.
It might be even the reason why Carmen`s brother doesn`t write to Grandma Scottie. Maybe he knows the truth about his mother and Scottie. Or then he just doesn`t want to write because he can`t afford sending always money.
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