Summary Of Salt By Sherman Alexie

I choose the story 'Salt' written by Sherman Alexie. When I saw the name of the story, it seems to be unique and different.It created an interest in me to know about this story, that’s why I choose this story.I like this story because this is a very emotional story. It shows the feeling of the people when their loved one goes from this world and this story about the myth of people that salt keeps them safe from death.The summary of the story given below.

This story is about an eighteen-year boy who was an intern at spokesman newspaper.He was working with female obituaries editor named Lois.He had only spent a few days working with her when he heard the news of her sudden death.

”But she’d left a note, a handwritten will and testament, with the editor in chief, and she’d named me as the person she wanted to write her obituary” (Alexie, n.d. Para.2).

It was difficult for him to write an excellent obituary about a woman he didn’t know very well.But he wrote the obit. Five days after Lois’s death the chief editor told him that he would be
She told him about the myth of Egyptians that they used to cover dead bodies with salt. It helps people get to Heaven quicker. That’s why she poured the salt on her cat, and after doing this, he felt that her cat start breathing.The young boy, after hearing this story got scared and thought it's better to leave.He said goodbye to the old lady and drove the car not towards the newspaper office but out of the city towards the inland sea which was heavy with iron, calcium, and salt.He thought about the Lois and his indigenous ancestors who had travelled here to be healed but they all dead now. Why had they believed so firmly in this magic water?He was thinking about them, and he took off his clothes and moving towards the sea by saying that I don’t want to live forever and don’t wish to