Who Is Mrs. Drover?

He lover was so sure that he would return to her on the day of his departure. When Kathleen says that he is going far away, he replies, ' Not so far as you think.'; If he were going to war, he would not say he was not going far away and would not be certain he was going to make it back. Her lover could have been stationed close by or he could have went AWOL and stalked Kathleen. If the person driving the taxi was Mrs. Kathleen Dover's former lover he must have stalked her or had some else stalk her to know where she was staying. When Mrs. Dover feels a draft from the basement she feels like someone is in the house and just left through a window. The person in the taxi could have already been in the house at the time she had walked in and watched her as she gathered her things. He now knowing she would not be able to carry all he parcels with her went to the taxi to wait for her. If it had been her lover stalking her he would not have stalked her all the time. He would have waited to find a time that Mrs. Dover was alone. Her going to a house with out anyone knowing she was going there would be a perfect opportunity to get Kathleen back for not waiting for him.

In the “Demon Lover”, Elizabeth Bowen uses foreshadowing, flashback, and point of view to convey a story of a young woman haunted by her pass. In the short story The Demon Lover, Mrs. Drover returns to her home to collect some personal belongings during the aftermath of a recent bombing, while gathering things she finds a letter and thinks of her long-dead fiancé. This causes for questions to rise. Imagery, flashback, and point of view are all used to convey the story of The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen.

When she was nineteen she made a promise to her fiancé, who her mother claimed "was set on her, not in love." A couple months after he left for war he was reported missing and presumed dead. At thirty two she met and married her current husband and had children. Now, it seems that the demon wants his "fiancé" to keep her promise. Bowen may have chosen to give her the last name of Drover, because a drover is someone who herds animals to market and it seems as though her fate will meet the same demise as the demon takes her away. Mrs. Drovers internal conflict occurred when she did not come through on the promise that she made and now, it seem she can not even recall what the promise was. She is faced with an external conflict as well because she will no longer have her family. She is in the hands of a demon. The third person objective point of view forces the reader to conclude for themself what is really happening. We can not hear her thoughts so it is impossible to know if she really remembers this "so-called promise." The two main elements that really work together to make this story felt by the reader are setting and language. The excellent use of literal imagery evokes the readers senses and sends a chilling feeling of suspense and terror down the spine, thus, creating the perfect setting. A sense of uneasiness is created

Japan and the USA were both very impacted and had many consequences after the bombing, for example. Since Japanese Americans were put into internment camps, it changed their whole lifestyle and their living area due to the fact they lived in a horse stall on the Tanforan Racetrack, in both the story Home was a Horse stall and Journey to Topaz. Even if

In the story Mrs. Dover finds a letter left for her in her abandoned home. It has today’s date, which means someone was in her home recently. Someone who knew Mrs. Dover was making a trip to her home in town, even though she told no one she was coming. The only clue as to who left the letter was the letter K signed at the bottom. At first the reader is only apprehensive about Mrs. Dover staying in her home. It was not until she has a flash back of her childhood that the reader becomes really nervous for

First, the bombs had a huge effect on the Japanese people, the countries that surrounded Japan such as Korea, and World War Two as a whole. The two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Little Boy and Fat Man, killed at least 129,000 people in total. It ended up causing other issues, such as child birth defects and a boost in illness. In the year following the bombs dropped, 1946, there were an astounding 1900 deaths from cancer. This is said to come from the bombs radiation fallout. One good result that came from all the tragedy of the war, is that Japan ended up surrendering to the Allies. This was around the same time that Germany surrendered, so the allies took the win.

World War II was a period that changed many countries forever after the war ended: Germany was split in two, an iron curtain fell across the continent shortly after the war’s end, and acres of land and millions of people were destroyed and lost in the war. However, many changes happened during the war as well, and this is easily observed in Britain during the beginning of the war, when the country was constantly being bombed and attacked during the Battle of Britain. The Battle of Britain forced British citizens to change their mindset as a society and as a functioning economy in a split second, regardless of whether or not the people were ready for it.

Chapter 1 A young woman appears out of nowhere and quickly catches up to another who's dashing along a moonlit lane. "Are we late?" She asks as she falls into step besides the older woman. "No not yet, but we need to hurry, we don't have much time." "Follow me," the older woman replies, and her dark cloak billows about casting shadows on the high stone walls that border the lane. They walked side by side in silence for a long ways and then through a set of huge iron gates swung opened before them and onto a narrow driveway. A manor house grew out of the darkness at the end of the straight drive, lights glinting in the windows. Gravel crackled beneath their feet as speeding toward the front door, which swung inward at their approach, though

Strategic bombing would be a major factor in the destruction of London. More than 500,000 people would die because of strategic bombing campaigns. Blitzkrieg is also known as “The Blitz” would be a major tactic used by the Nazi’s. They would use this tactic to invade neighboring countries. By the time the blitz came upon Britain the Nazi’s conquered most of Europe. The Nazi’s planned to attack Britain and invade. They would try to cripple the British defenses. While trying to bombard their defenses they accidentally attacked a civilian area which caused uproar with the British people. Many people thought raids like this would not stop so they had a mass migration of children and artwork. The Nazi’s began bombing London in September of 1940 and this would last until May of 1941. The Battle of Britain was going on around the same time. This battle would not only be important because it would prove to the Nazi’s that they could not invade Britain, but this would mark Hitler’s first defeat in World War 2. This would be a landmark battle because not only was this battle not fought on land, but for this first time in human history the whole battle was fought in the skies. One of the greatest military inventions would come out of this battle was radar. Radar was only in the infancy before the battle, but would become vital in the allies victory in the war. London by the end of the war was in need of major reconstruction. Many would see this as an opportunity to rebuild and grow the city like never before. They would introduce satellite towns and high rise buildings. They would build the Barbican which would hold office blocks, an arts centre, a museum, housing and a school. This would be one of the biggest reconstruction projects in European

Drover finds a letter addressed to her, “the letter, which bore no stamp,” (Bowen 1084) that must have been recently placed on the table, as other objects “wore a film of another kind; and the only ventilation being the chimney,” (Bowen 1084). All the objects in the house were covered in dust, yet this letter had none on it. She begins to wonder how did the letter appeared on the table; the caretaker is away and the letter should have been forwarded to her residence in the country. Mrs. Drover reads the letter in her old bedroom, which she discovers the letter was from her fiance that was presumed dead during the first World War. In terror she remembers what he left her, “that cut of the button on her palm of hand was, principally, what she was to carry away,” (Bowen 1085). Her fiance was aggressive and physically hurt Mrs. Drover to leave a memory of him.. In panic, Mrs. Drover rushes to finish her tasks in the house as she wonders how he knows she is there and when will he come. These thoughts are running through her head, as well as the reader’s head. Mrs. Drover becomes haunted with memories she has of him. The letter is signed with by “K” so the reader is unaware of who the fiance is and his past; however, based upon Mrs. Drover’s reaction, the reader can conclude that this man is someone to be feared. More and more panic sets in as time passes, Mrs. Drover not knowing the set time they are to meet. The rain and the damaged, dark house aids her paranoia as she begins to believe she is not alone, and is concerned when hearing noises. Mrs. Drover wants to escape back to the country as soon as possible to be with her family, in safety away from the dead

At least 2,000 fires erupted and transport was disrupted for days. The attacks were concentrated on the Fleet Street area and the West End, and over 1,200 people were killed. The last massive attack took place during the nights of May 10 and 11, 1941. The raid consisted of over 800 tons of explosives and produced over 2,000 fires.

The effects of the bombings were terrible: besides tons of innocent Japanese lives being taken away, the radiation affected thousands of other innocent Japanese people, which meant it affected almost half the population of Japan.

Mrs Hayward is a contradictory character who is established through Stephen’s fragmented memory to be both a character of smiling perfection and a broken woman, sitting in the dust weeping. She is both the embodiment of a perfect British wartime wife and a character of suspicion; a spy, a traitor, the epitome of deceit and the focus of two young boys’ overzealous imagination.

At the start of the war the impact was mainly insignificant as the bombing was not as bad as the

About a month had passed since Mary Ann started repairing the town. Jessica, Mary Ann's aunt, had been receiving letters from Mary Ann talking about all the work she had done. Jessica decided she wanted to help her niece anyway should could, so she packed a few things and invited her friend, Mike who she worked with and they traveled to Rosemary Falls. Soon after getting there, they realized the town had no power. Luckily Mike work