Compass and Torch
Compass and Torch
The short story Compass and Torch is written by the writer Elizabeth Baines. The short story is told in present time and the narrator is a third person narrator. The theme in the shore story is the relationship between father and son – a theme that the whole short story is based on.
In the short story we are told about four different characters; the boy, the father, the mother and the stepfather. The four characters are very different from each other and the writer has managed to create four strong characters, which is a fact that gives the reader an opportunity to label the characters personalities. The mother in the short story is clearly a loving and carrying person. She is divorced from her former husband and she is now trying to create a new and secure environment for her son to grow up in. She has found Jim, a new partner of life, and through Jim she is trying to give her son a new role model, because her son’s biological father in some how have failed his role as a father figure and for some reason has managed to spent as little time with his son as possible: The first in four month he has his eight-yaer-old son (……). The mother is very concerned by the fact that her son and her son’s father are going on a tent trip, the mother’s instincts are telling her that the trip is too impulsive and too dangerous. But because of her sons excitement about the trip she swallows her worries, because her son’s happiness means the world to her. The mother’s new partner, Jim, is also a person who appears, as he is very interested in doing everything to please his partner’s son. In the short story there is a time where Jim asks to see the son’s torch and even though Jim properly is able to feel the little boy’s reservation against him, he do not seem to be affected by this fact, he keeps on showing interest for the boy’s equipment, in spite of the fact that the boy in some how has given him the cold shoulder: But Jim is not his father. The son’s
The short story Compass and Torch is written by the writer Elizabeth Baines. The short story is told in present time and the narrator is a third person narrator. The theme in the shore story is the relationship between father and son – a theme that the whole short story is based on.
In the short story we are told about four different characters; the boy, the father, the mother and the stepfather. The four characters are very different from each other and the writer has managed to create four strong characters, which is a fact that gives the reader an opportunity to label the characters personalities. The mother in the short story is clearly a loving and carrying person. She is divorced from her former husband and she is now trying to create a new and secure environment for her son to grow up in. She has found Jim, a new partner of life, and through Jim she is trying to give her son a new role model, because her son’s biological father in some how have failed his role as a father figure and for some reason has managed to spent as little time with his son as possible: The first in four month he has his eight-yaer-old son (……). The mother is very concerned by the fact that her son and her son’s father are going on a tent trip, the mother’s instincts are telling her that the trip is too impulsive and too dangerous. But because of her sons excitement about the trip she swallows her worries, because her son’s happiness means the world to her. The mother’s new partner, Jim, is also a person who appears, as he is very interested in doing everything to please his partner’s son. In the short story there is a time where Jim asks to see the son’s torch and even though Jim properly is able to feel the little boy’s reservation against him, he do not seem to be affected by this fact, he keeps on showing interest for the boy’s equipment, in spite of the fact that the boy in some how has given him the cold shoulder: But Jim is not his father. The son’s