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Food In Raymond Craver's A Small, Good Thing

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Meal Analysis Draft Food can be used as a pathway to connect the reader to the passage, and for them to relate it to themselves in their life. With many different lifestyles in our community, one thing that doesn't seem to have any major change over the different lifestyles and cultures is the pull that food has. To be able have people of all kinds, to gather around and celebrate any occasion with food being the center piece. In Raymond Craver’s short story A Small, Good Thing”, at the start of the passage Ann Weiss is ordering a cake in celebration for her son Scotty’s birthday. She notices that the baker is distant and somewhat abrupt when taking the order. Ann being a happy mother about to celebrate Scotty’s birthday on Monday, …show more content…

In doing this Carver uses both sides of this situation to setup the rest of his story. Making him able to relate back to food throughout the story. Moving towards my peers food for thought pages, while grazing through the variety of different papers, I found multiple papers that pertained to a significant tradition. One of my peers, Andrew Kowalczyk offers a great example of food bringing his family together for longer than he can remember by telling readers about his family’s ritual of hunting down and eating lobster almost every weekend in the summer. Kowalczyk states that “As far back as I can remember, and even before, lobsters have been a huge part of my life. And even in recent years when lobster has been scarce in my household, the memories of how it brought people together stick with me,”(pg.1). With saying this Kowalczyk has stated that even with now lobster being a rarity and the death of his father in his life, the memories of those summer weekends still flood his mind. And they will stick with Kowalczyk for the rest of his life. Both Carver and Kowalczyk have used food to represent the losing of a loved one. Carver uses food to “break bread” between the baker and the recent childless couple. “I’m deeply sorry. I’m sorry for your son, and

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