Stuart By Zadie Smith Summary
Metamorphosis of a Day
Amanda Araki-Young
Tutorial Leader: Martin
October 9th, 2012
Passage #1
In the short story “Stuart” by Zadie Smith, the author uses striking and strong language which has a powerful affect on the passage as well as the story as a whole. The narrator uses critical opinions while describing how the day and how people change. Need to put in a thesis. What are you trying to say in the story. What specifically do you want to focus on? Physical, behavioral etc changes?
Metamorphosis is a strong theme that is portrayed throughout the whole story. The story starts off as just a normal day in the city where two Greek hotdog venders work but then transforms into a day of absolute chaos by the presence of “three white boys”(60). Smith describes three uncoordinated boys and how “they have man-sized hands sprouting from elongated, spindly limbs like the …show more content…
Smith describes three uncoordinated boys and how “they have man-sized hands sprouting from elongated, spindly limbs like the extremities of flamingos and their feet are so huge that they might be prehensile…”(60) and then goes on latter to describe one as a “Russian Gymnast”(66). Smith uses a simile to compare flamingos and the boy’s limbs’ which creates the image of three gawky boys who have limbs far to long for their bodies. Smith portrays the boys as young and naïve, where “none of them can call puberty an old friend”(60). She shows how the boys start off as just any other young customers, that “there is a good feeling”(62) between the boys and the Greeks and then the situation morphs into complete and utter chaos where one of the Greeks looses complete control and a fight breaks out. The significance of passage number one is to give the readers a good image of how the boys were before the metamorphosis begins and they turn into injured, helpless little
Amanda Araki-Young
Tutorial Leader: Martin
October 9th, 2012
Passage #1
In the short story “Stuart” by Zadie Smith, the author uses striking and strong language which has a powerful affect on the passage as well as the story as a whole. The narrator uses critical opinions while describing how the day and how people change. Need to put in a thesis. What are you trying to say in the story. What specifically do you want to focus on? Physical, behavioral etc changes?
Metamorphosis is a strong theme that is portrayed throughout the whole story. The story starts off as just a normal day in the city where two Greek hotdog venders work but then transforms into a day of absolute chaos by the presence of “three white boys”(60). Smith describes three uncoordinated boys and how “they have man-sized hands sprouting from elongated, spindly limbs like the …show more content…
Smith describes three uncoordinated boys and how “they have man-sized hands sprouting from elongated, spindly limbs like the extremities of flamingos and their feet are so huge that they might be prehensile…”(60) and then goes on latter to describe one as a “Russian Gymnast”(66). Smith uses a simile to compare flamingos and the boy’s limbs’ which creates the image of three gawky boys who have limbs far to long for their bodies. Smith portrays the boys as young and naïve, where “none of them can call puberty an old friend”(60). She shows how the boys start off as just any other young customers, that “there is a good feeling”(62) between the boys and the Greeks and then the situation morphs into complete and utter chaos where one of the Greeks looses complete control and a fight breaks out. The significance of passage number one is to give the readers a good image of how the boys were before the metamorphosis begins and they turn into injured, helpless little