Alice Munro 's ' The Amber Of The Moment '

“Day of the Butterfly” by Alice Munro is a story involving two girls and their short lasting friendship. In their sixth grade class, Myra does not socialize. She spends most of her time taking care and watching her little brother Jimmy. For the first time in years one of her classmates, Helen, feels slightly bad for her and makes an effort to connect with her. Right after their meeting, Myra is sick with leukemia and she becomes the most talked about person among her peers. They visit her in the hospital bringing gifts and kind words. Helen also brings a gift for her but feels that everything her classmates have given Myra are “guilt-tinged offerings”. They have similarities and differences. Myra and Helen are both are poor and

The theme of Alice Walker’s “Roselily” is letting go of your past life to start a new one. Letting go of what came before is something that many deal with, and this is a struggle that the main character of the story faces and ponders as she takes her first steps on a new journey. The story “Roselily” is about a middle-aged african american woman who will be taking on a brand new life in marriage. However, she does not know what this future will bring her and she contemplates if her new life will truly be happier than the one she is leaving behind (encyclopedia.com).

In Alice Munro short story “Boys and Girls” is about a young girl confused in life about herself maturing into a young women that takes place on a fox farm in Jubilee, Ontario, Canada with her parents and her younger brother. The character of the young girl that is not specified by a name in the story is struggling with the roles that are expected by her peers of a young women in the 1940’s. This young girl has been helping her father on the fox farm for many years in which brought so much of a joy in her life. As she gets older, as well and as her younger brother Laird grows older, she is starting to realize that her younger brother will be soon be taking over the roles and responsibility of taking care of the animals. Then her mother and grandmother points out the anticipations of her to start acting more like how a young women of her age should present themselves and this has great emotional effects on her, and at the end of the story she shows a final act of disobedience against her father, but it only shows the thing she resist the most, her maturing into a young women and becoming her own person.

“The Flowers” by Alice Walker is a remarkable short story that packs a huge message and leaves the reader with a sense of how a young black girl gains knowledge to the world around her, but in return loses her innocence.

In the short story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker a young girl by the name of Myop sets off on her own journey. Along this journey Myop finds herself drawing away from her usual farmland flowers into an area of strange air, literally stepping into realization and self discovery. Because Myop experiences a change in location and season, she loses her innocence and comes of age.

Harvey Fierson once said,“never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accepts no one’s definition of your life, but define it yourself.” Throughout life many people struggle to find who they are or the person they want the world to see. One can say this dilemma stems from the human need of belongingness, as demonstrated in Maslow 's hierarchy of needs. “Day of the Butterfly” by Alice Munro depicts this idea through the relationship, that is formed between the main characters Helen and Myra. Helen can be viewed as a dynamic and round character because her personality shifted a lot throughout the story. The reader was also allowed to see her battle with “self” from the beginning to end of the narrative. Myra on the other hand, would be a foil or static character. This is due to the fact that Myra remained constant and she was the reason behind Helen’s actions and thoughts. However for this analysis we will focus solely on Helen and how her character was affected and evolved. She was a very weak-minded, submissive, and scared individual, who later exhibit qualities of bravery. At the end we can see how she began to step into who she was as an individual. Now we will look at how Helen was affected mentally, socially and emotionally.

In finding personal integrity, courage is a double edged blade as it can sustain integrity in certain circumstances and drive an individual further away in others. In Alice Munro’s short story “Boys and Girls” the main character begins by developing a sense of personal integrity without external influence, but soon loses sight of herself as pressure from both herself and her society outpace her aspirations. As she grows older the values she placed in feats of daring is interchanged with misplaced rebellion as she attempts to fight her expectations and role in her family. Though she has courage in abundance for an untested child, the constant reproach and patronizing attitude of the people around her restricts her ability to flourish. In this text Munro suggests that well-employed courage is needed to sustain an already developed integrity, though it must act with some source of external support to succeed.

For example, Jacobs describes her experiences being sexually abused by her master, Dr. Flint. Her life is consumed by fear, as she is constantly worrying

Many conflicts arise in a relationship due to the difference of opinion between people. Society customs and rules also plays an important role in a relationship. The two short stories “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro and “Responsibility” by Russell Smith show how arguments and challenges are faced by characters in their relationships due to differences in their thinking and way of living. It is very important for an indiviudal to follow norms of the society to occupy a proper status and be accepted by the society. Both of the main the characters in each story have their own dreams and wishes but finally have to compromise with the rules of society.

Feminist theory has been around for many years restricting women on how they behave, dress and even what jobs they are ‘allow’ to do. In the short story, “Boys and Girls”, Alice Munro portrays a young girl who is socially and psychologically undermined by her family and the sociality to show her readers how feminist theory took a toll on girls back in 1964 and still happening till this day.

As children, we start off naive and innocent so we are interested in everything around us in order to gain knowledge and then wisdom to make a positive impact on the world. In the process of growing up, we want to have limitless dreams. We can be whatever we want to be; a princess, a neurosurgeon ninja, etc. However, as we mature, we experience evil and cruelty and this destroys our innocence and makes us tend to want to go back to not having a care in the world. Although we want to return to innocence, growing up benefits us because we gain wisdom and knowledge.

“The Flowers” by Alice Walker. In this book, Ms.Walker describes how the world many seem innocent to a child, at first, then all the sudden it can take a turn and show its darker side. In this essay I will be explain how Ms.Walker used mood and the setting to show how the world to a child can be innocent and dark. In the story Ms.Walker goes into a child’s mind to show mood and the setting.

People are shaped by the external forces that act upon them. They can choose whether or not to accept the pressure and conform to them or they can reject it altogether, further reinforcing their original traits. Sometimes these external forces are too substantial for the individual to handle and they have no choice but to conform and submit to these forces. In the short story “Boys and Girls”, written by Alice Munro the protagonist begins to discover that society plays an important role in the shaping of a one's character and personality. In her childhood, the protagonist exhibits a very unorthodox nature as she prefers to do manual labour alongside her father rather than residing in her house doing more domestic tasks. As the protagonist

Alice Munro as one of the foremost practitioners of the art the short story a just so covering in relating the sentiments, writing style that is straightforward and precise, a retrospective narrator that sees, but does not offer excuses for the failings of the pure self, interesting structure, gorgeous details, and unsettling everyday situations. The Munro’s stories often conceal a craft of the fiction and work to the lay bare a considered accounting of a period of the time. Every story offers a realistic window into life’s misfortunes and truths, its delicate moments and unexpected pleasures, so does the Munro’s collection try to preserve the essence of life its imperfections, contradictions,

Plot can also be used as a direct representation of the theme in a short story. Plot is the combination of setting, characters, and the series of events that allow the story to progress. The idea of a unifying event that forces a child into the adult world is identified, by analysis of the plot, as the theme of Alice Munro’s “Royal Beatings”. The story progresses by a series of flashbacks through Rose, the protagonist’s, life developing the