Day Of The Butterfly, By Alice Munro
Now the story, “Day of the Butterfly” was written by Alice Munro and had a clear theme. The theme of this astonishing story was friendship. It showed how the main character became friends with a girl named Myra. In fact, we never learned about the main character's name but we will call her Alice since its first person. We do though learn a lot about Myra. In the story, Myra is a lonesome girl who has to sit with her younger brother all the time because he doesn’t get along with the other boys. This is what detaches Myra and her classmates. One day Alice confronts Myra and they quickly become friends. Alice gave a Cracker Jack prize to her new friend. It was a glass butterfly brooch. Now when you first read this story you immediately
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All the students in “Day of the Butterfly” go to visit Myra when she goes to the hospital. As she is in the hospital, they all have gifts for her so that she can get better. Her teacher is calling it a birthday party, but our main character disagrees with her and just wants to see it as get-well gifts. Myra and the main character have created an unbreakable bond with one another. Now Alice Munro wants the reader to become sad when they read that Myra is sick and the main character is very sad. She wants the reader to feel like they are a part of the unbreakable friendship with that little …show more content…
This makes the reader have the feeling that they can relate and know that this also has happened to them. This scene makes a reader happy and they feel like they can be humble and make new friends just as Alice did. So of course on page 37 of “Day of the Butterfly”, she yells, “Myra! Hey, Myra, wait up, I got some Cracker Jack!” Now you also see that when you meet someone new you do in fact have something to offer. You feel connected to the story in an odd way and begin to really see the theme of this grand story. So they began to talk and spoke of Art and Social Studies and Myra tells Alice that she enjoys Art and Art and Arithmetic. Alice tells her that she wishes she were good at Arithmetic. This makes Myra happy and really opens her
All the students in “Day of the Butterfly” go to visit Myra when she goes to the hospital. As she is in the hospital, they all have gifts for her so that she can get better. Her teacher is calling it a birthday party, but our main character disagrees with her and just wants to see it as get-well gifts. Myra and the main character have created an unbreakable bond with one another. Now Alice Munro wants the reader to become sad when they read that Myra is sick and the main character is very sad. She wants the reader to feel like they are a part of the unbreakable friendship with that little …show more content…
This makes the reader have the feeling that they can relate and know that this also has happened to them. This scene makes a reader happy and they feel like they can be humble and make new friends just as Alice did. So of course on page 37 of “Day of the Butterfly”, she yells, “Myra! Hey, Myra, wait up, I got some Cracker Jack!” Now you also see that when you meet someone new you do in fact have something to offer. You feel connected to the story in an odd way and begin to really see the theme of this grand story. So they began to talk and spoke of Art and Social Studies and Myra tells Alice that she enjoys Art and Art and Arithmetic. Alice tells her that she wishes she were good at Arithmetic. This makes Myra happy and really opens her