Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity;and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
Questions
1.What is the story's major idea about youthful admiration and love?
2.How might the bazaar,"Araby"be considered symbolically in the story?What does Araby symbolize for the protagonist before he gets there?What does it come to symbolize at the close of the story?
GIRL——Jamaica Kincaid
Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap;wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry;don't walk barehead in the hot sun;cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil;soak your little clothes right after you take them off;when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse,be sure that it doesn't have gum on it,because that way it won't hold up well after a wash;soak salt fish over night before you cook it;is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school?;always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn somebody else's stomach;on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming;don't sing benna in Sunday school;you mustn't speak to wharf rat boy,not even to give directions;don't eat fruits on the street—flies will follow you;BUT I DON'T SING BENNA ON SUNDAYS AT ALL AND NEVER IN SUNDAY SCHOOL;this is how to sew on a button;this is how to make a button hole for the button you have just sewed on;this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming;this is how you iron your father's khaki shirt so that it doesn't have a crease;this is how you grow okra—far from the house,because okra tree harbors red ants;when you are growing dasheen,make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat itch when you are eating it;this is how you sweep a corner;this is how you sweep a whole house;this is how you sweep a yard;this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much;this is how you smile to someone you don't like completely;this is how you set a table for tea;this is how you set a table for dinner;this is how you set a table for dinner with an important guest;this is how you set a table for lunch;this is how you set a table for breakfast;this is how to behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well,and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming;be sure to wash every day,even if it is with your own spit;don't squat down to play marbles—you are not a boy,you know;don't pick people's flowers—you might catch something;don't throw stones at blackbirds,because it might not be a blackbird at all;this is how to make a bread pudding;this is how to make doukona;this is how to make pepper pot;this is how to make a good medicine for a cold;this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child;this is how to catch a fish;this is how to throw back a fish you don't like,and that way something bad won't fall on you;this is how to bully a man;this is how a man bullies you;this is how to love a man,and if this doesn't work there are other ways,and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up;this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it,and this is how to move quick so that it doesn't fall on you;this is how to make ends meet;always squeeze bread to make sure it is fresh;BUT WHAT IF THE BAKER WON'T LET ME FEEL THE BREAD?you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?
Questions
This very short story is written in the form of a single ongoing sentence.How does it nevertheless have the form of a story?What are the conflict,crisis,and resolution?
Haircut——Ring Lardner
I got another barber that comes over from Carterville and helps me out Saturdays,but the rest of the time I can get along all right alone.You can see for yourself that this ain't no New York City and besides that,the most of the boys works all day and don't have no leisure to drop in here and get themselves prettied up.
You're a newcomer,ain't you?I thought I hadn't seen you round before.I hope you like it good enough to stay.As I say,we ain't no New York City or Chicago,but we have pretty good times.Not as good,though,since Jim Kendall got killed.When he was alive,him and Hod Meyers used to keep this town in an uproar.I bet they was more laughin'done here than any town its size in America.
Jim was comical,and Hod was pretty near a match for him.Since Jim's gone,Hod tries to hold his end up just the same as ever,but it's tough goin'when you ain't got nobody to kind of work with.
They used to be plenty fun in here Saturdays.This place is jampacked Saturdays,from four o'clock on.Jim and Hod would show up right after their supper,round six o'clock.Jim would set himself down in that big chair,nearest the blue spittoon.Whoever had been settin'in that chair,why they'd get up when Jim come in and give it to him.
You'd of thought it was a reserved seat like they have sometimes in a theatre.Hod would generally always stand or walk up and down,or some Saturdays,of course,he'd be settin'in this chair part of the time,gettin'a haircut.
Well,Jim would set there a w'ile without opening his mouth only to spit,and then finally he'd say to me,"Whitey,"—my right name,that is,my right first name,is Dick,but everybody round here calls me Whitey—Jim would say,"Whitey,your nose looks like a rosebud tonight.You must of been drinkin'some of your aw de cologne."
So I'd say,"No,Jim,but you look like you'd been drinkin'somethin'of that kind or somethin'worse."
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