Cherry Bomb Maxine Clair Summary
Looking back to her fifth-grade summer world, the narrator in Maxine Clair’s “Cherry Bomb” is reminded of the fun times she had back in the day. Clair illustrates the narrator’s playful and reminiscent attitude toward her childhood summer through colloquial diction, profuse imagery, and humorous anecdotes.
The narrator in Clair’s work speaks in a very colloquial manner when she approaches the subject of her 5th grade summer. The narrator repeatedly uses em dashed descriptions (ie. “over-one-hundred-degree days,” “that-old-thing,” and “help-him-out”), creating the image of the narrator’s summer through her eyes. The anecdote about “the Hairy Man” that was “in his fenced-in yard, wooly-headed and bearded, hollering… until a nurse… took him
The narrator in Clair’s work speaks in a very colloquial manner when she approaches the subject of her 5th grade summer. The narrator repeatedly uses em dashed descriptions (ie. “over-one-hundred-degree days,” “that-old-thing,” and “help-him-out”), creating the image of the narrator’s summer through her eyes. The anecdote about “the Hairy Man” that was “in his fenced-in yard, wooly-headed and bearded, hollering… until a nurse… took him