The Runaway . Morley Callaghan
SHORT STORIES
The runaway
Author: Morley Callaghan (male)
*was born in 1903
*Canadian writer.
*Studied at the University of Toronto
*Started to write in 1929.
* Their novels and short stories are marked by undertones of Roman Catholicism, often focusing on individuals whose essential characteristic is a strong but weakened sense of self.
-Another short stories he wrote: Morley Callagham Stories and Lost and Found Stories.
PLOT
Is a story of a boy called Michael , whose life is divided between the pleasures of a teenager, the pangs of love and the problems at home with his father and stepmother.
He feels trapped in a society where everyone knows everyone else and a family in which his father has constant arguments with his stepmother. It is then not a surprise that Michael feels the need to escape, to run away from everybody and visit new places in order to find a better life.
Adolescence is a particular life stage in which many changes occur. In the story “The Runaway”; Michael, the protagonist, goes through the problems commonly experienced by adolescents and also several tensions at home, which lead him to face different complicated situations related to another boy and the final decision of running away
-tensions at home: he does not establish a good relationship with his stepmother because she reprimands him .What is more, his father and his stepmother quarrel all the time and that made Michael feel unhappy and sorrowful.
- he decides to bully his neighbor just because of the need to prove himself
-all the quarrels and tension that surround his family are a key factor that makes him escape from everybody, looking for a better life
STAGES *Preliminary situation: a hot afternoon in a small village.
*Rising action: Michael had a problem with his friends in lumber yard. He arrived at home and talked with his father.
*Climax: He saw his father and stepmother arguing. He fought with the coloured boy and then they became friends. He
The runaway
Author: Morley Callaghan (male)
*was born in 1903
*Canadian writer.
*Studied at the University of Toronto
*Started to write in 1929.
* Their novels and short stories are marked by undertones of Roman Catholicism, often focusing on individuals whose essential characteristic is a strong but weakened sense of self.
-Another short stories he wrote: Morley Callagham Stories and Lost and Found Stories.
PLOT
Is a story of a boy called Michael , whose life is divided between the pleasures of a teenager, the pangs of love and the problems at home with his father and stepmother.
He feels trapped in a society where everyone knows everyone else and a family in which his father has constant arguments with his stepmother. It is then not a surprise that Michael feels the need to escape, to run away from everybody and visit new places in order to find a better life.
Adolescence is a particular life stage in which many changes occur. In the story “The Runaway”; Michael, the protagonist, goes through the problems commonly experienced by adolescents and also several tensions at home, which lead him to face different complicated situations related to another boy and the final decision of running away
-tensions at home: he does not establish a good relationship with his stepmother because she reprimands him .What is more, his father and his stepmother quarrel all the time and that made Michael feel unhappy and sorrowful.
- he decides to bully his neighbor just because of the need to prove himself
-all the quarrels and tension that surround his family are a key factor that makes him escape from everybody, looking for a better life
STAGES *Preliminary situation: a hot afternoon in a small village.
*Rising action: Michael had a problem with his friends in lumber yard. He arrived at home and talked with his father.
*Climax: He saw his father and stepmother arguing. He fought with the coloured boy and then they became friends. He