What Is The Parsley Garden Short Story

“The Inheritance of Tools” by Scott Russell Sanders begins by describing how the author and his father were both doing carpentry work when the latter passed away, one on a house in Oklahoma, and the other on a bedroom wall in the bedroom of his own home. The moment before he gets the news, Sanders hits his thumb with a hammer, an accident which he links to the death of his father. He goes on to tell how the values of the family are passed generation to generation just as the tools and carpentry skills are, values which include absolute perfection when performing and completing any task and also taking pride in one’s work. After thinking through the death of his father, Sanders proceeds to his toolbox and takes a look at all of his freshly sharpened and oiled knives and chisels, suggesting to the reader that he may want to commit suicide, but he realizes that killing himself will not solve any of the problems he has. Sanders knows that the only realistic

He blames his theft of apples on the peer pressure he had when he did it. The lesson he learns here is that “friendship can be a dangerous enemy, a seduction of the mind. ” Like love, it must be subjected to reason if it is to be truly good.

After he steals the pie he states, “I knew an apple got Eve in deep trouble with snakes…” He uses this example from the Bible to show his religious upbringing and how he applies this story from creation to his sins. Like Eve, he realized that he did something wrong after the fact. At the end of the narrative, he brings up sin again to say, “I knew sin was what you took and didn’t give back.” He includes this sentence to show the purpose of sharing his childhood story with the reader and what he learned from his mistakes. He reveals his religious views and morals at the end to justify that he is aware of his wrongdoing and also to help the reader avoid the same fate.

Alden Nowlan’s story called “The Fall of a City” discusses the central theme of how life circumstances are beyond human control in most of the cases. This theme is applied to the specific idea of coming of age through the story of the main character. Teddy is an eleven-year-old boy who lives with his uncles. Teddy spends the afternoons playing in the attic and creating a paper world: the kingdom of Upalia. The uncle and the aunt are suspicious about what the child is doing up there, and after discovering it, they mock his nephew’s behavior. Teddy becomes angry with himself and destroys the paper city. The story contains multiple literary techniques which show to the reader the opposition or rejection between Teddy’s real life and his paper

“…Don’t feel sorry for me. I’m glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I’m grateful I saw it even for a little bit” (Keys, 119). This quote describes both books because they are narrated in unusual ways which make us view the book in a different way than we would have under normal circumstances. Also, both in Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys, and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, both characters face big changes in their life which cause them to lose the people they love the most. Despite these similarities both books have very different plots. In Flowers For Algernon,

A child holds innocence from a young age and does not understand the importance of having compassion. As a child's innocence gradually fades away due to maturity, he or she transforms into a compassionate person. In a coming of age short story called, “Marigolds,” the author Eugenia Collier writes about a series of events about a young girl, named Lizabeth, develops into a compassionate person. Lizabeth narrates these events in a flashback that involves the marigolds of her neighbor, Miss Lottie. Miss Lottie's marigolds represented the essence of hope in the midst of the town, filled with dust and dirt. Despite the dirt and dusty roads that were accompanied by the house, Miss Lottie decided to plant her marigolds. The effect of economic struggles the townspeople go through causes Lizabeth to destroy Miss Lottie's marigolds. Throughout the short story,

In the poem “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur and the short story “Saturday Climbing” by W.D. Valgardson, both of them describe children’s growth in parent’s point of view. Somehow, parents realize children always meet difficulty along with their growth, and parents sometimes are unable to help them, whereas both parents and children have to struggle for themselves.

“It was not safe to spend time looking back..He thought of the rules he had broken so far: enough that if he was caught, now, he would be condemned.” pg 165

This quote shows the narrator’s struggle to be seen and his regret that he didn’t realize it sooner. He had lived all these years, repeating the same old mistakes. Being used and lied to, to help the people in power become even more powerful. They preyed on his innocence and longing for attention. Yet

Session One: Albert was presented with a rat. Just as he reached for it, a steel bar behind him was hit. This procedure was repeated. After two presentations Albert was given a week off.

I believe that Dagoberto Gilb wrote this story to show the readers not to just get straight to the point but try to get to their perspective. I believe that Gilb wrote it thinking of people who were around him that just so happened to be doing the same thing. Al and the narrator seem to be the type of people who will not get along with each other. At times, the characters change from one perspective to another making it difficult for each other to know what the other is really thinking.

Failure never really struck the two men, their American dream of owning their own land and not having to work for someone else, was only ever that, a dream. Even though it was later than sooner that George decided what was best for him, he stopped dreaming, and learned to start living. After he let go of Lennie, sadness had followed. Like everyone else, George knows that he has to just move on and let it go. George says,” I just done it.” (Page. 107. Line 15)

On the other hand Tull describes Barry’s novel as garbage that took no real talent, Although Barry’s readers love his work. Through the next few pages of the essay Amos describes Tulls hard work as pointless. Richard Miller then states an agreement with Amos’s theory that finding motivation for the crimes that are committed in book, and the ones done in the school yard are just irrelevant as the art literacy itself. To support this at the end Richard points out that Amos bring a sense of hopelessness: Whatever we do now will never have significance.

Taking place in a countryside home, W.W. Jacobs’s short story “The Monkey’s Paw” illustrates the White family’s two-day interaction with a seemingly innocent mummified monkey's paw. Each character presented in the short story represents natural human traits that can prove to be negative when greed and curiosity are involved. The use of symbolism throughout the story proves to be vital to the reader, as it allows him or her to understand the importance of every action done to the monkey’s paw has an opposite consequence. This correlates to everyone on Earth’s predetermined fate and the problems that an individual could face when greed overcomes their needs, even when it is for a better or worse life. When individuals are consumed by greed, like the White family, they must accept the consequences no matter how severe it is when it is something they truly seek in life.

In J. Robert Lennon’s book “Pieces for the Left Hand”, the stories are all connected by hardships, struggles, and misunderstandings one might face during their lifetime. During our lifespan, we are always faced with choices and decisions that others may or may not agree with. In this book, Lennon does a great job of spanning over difficulties but also triumphs one might face. A story that comes to mind for me is “Trust Jesus”, in which a teenage girl decides to vandalize a railroad bridge and is later forced to paint the whole bridge to pay back for her mistake. Throughout the book, Lennon includes varying backgrounds and stories which keeps the reader engaged and wanting to read more.