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    Alice Munro’s collection of short stories in Open Secrets is one example of her focus on women‚ ordinary women‚ and the lives they experience and lead. Her stories present us with characters that think‚ feel‚ and develop in normal‚ as well as abnormal‚ situations. In the following discussion we focus on two of her short stories from Open Secrets‚ and confer the characters and their development. The stories chosen for examination are "Open Secrets" and "Vandals." Each of them will be discussed individually

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    ALICE MUNRO’S THE ALBANIAN VIRGIN IN OPEN SECRETS EXEMPLIES HER CHARACTERISTIC APPROACH To try to trace Alice Munro’s narrative techniques to any particular development in the short story The Albanian Virgin would be difficult. This could be because it is simply written from careful observations as are many of her other short stories. In her short stories‚ it is as though she tries to transform a common‚ ordinary world into something that is unsettling and mysterious as was seen in Vandals

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    Reader Response Paper – Point of View‚ An Ounce of Cure by Alice Munro The short story An Ounce of Cure is narrated in the first person. The author uses foreshadowing in the first two paragraphs. The narrator‚ who is also the unnamed main character‚ paints a picture of herself as stable adult woman briefly describing her families’ view of alcohol consumption and how it was generally frowned upon. I would call the descriptions of her mother in these paragraphs as astute‚ proper‚ and strict. The

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    Husband- Alice Munro Alice Munro Alice Munro was born 10 July 1931. Alice attended the University of Western Ontario. She left university when she married her husband James Munro. Alice moved to Vancouver with her husband and they opened a book store. Alice began publishing her work in magazines and grew to publishing her own books. She is now 82 years old and lives in Wingham‚ Ontario. She has four children and is still married. Alice is a Canadian author who writes in English. Alice Munro’s

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    I read How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro. This is a short story told in the first-person narrative. The theme of this story is a simple‚ but good one. The theme is love. Or to put it in broader terms‚ the theme could be described as while sometimes it may come from heartbreak‚ fate can bring is to the person we are meant to love forever. When it comes to exploring the point of view of this story‚ you can ask yourself a few questions. “This story is told in the first person by a teenage girl

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    Alice Munro has long been critically acclaimed as an expert in short fiction throughout the past decades. Her prose has earned the praise of many and is filled with evocative language and colorful characters. Within a period of seven years she published the short stories “Forgiveness in Families” (1974)‚ “The Moons of Jupiter” (1978) and “Prue” in 1981. All three of these stories center around women and their different experiences in life. In these short stories‚ Munro uses the main characters to

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    The short story "Boys and Girls‚" written by Alice Munro‚ was written in a first-person point of view. The main character‚ Alice‚ is a static character. She is the oldest child in the family‚ and has a younger brother‚ Laird. Alice is very helpful around the house with her mother‚ but tends to disappear from the house to help her father outside‚ which she enjoys best. Alive has quite the imagination. At night she would make up rules for her brother and herself‚ such as: "...we had rules to

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    The short story How I Met My Husband‚ by Alice Munro‚ is an excellent example of realistic writing. She uses ordinary and worldly events‚ actual locations‚ and a very ironic tone in the story. Alice Munro also uses everyday people for her protagonists‚ who encounter normal events and emotions. In the story How I Met My Husband‚ Edie shows the growth from someone who is very naïve to someone who is more realistic. In the beginning of this story‚ Edie is a very naïve fifteen-year-old girl. She does

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    Name : M.fauzan Bp : 1210733030 review hateship‚ friendship‚ courtship‚ loveship‚ marriage by alice munro The title of Alice Munro’s new collection seems aggressive and awkward at first‚ but it quickly pulls the reader into the “game” Munro is playing in these nine stories. The game‚ as explained in the title story‚ is played by two girls in an Ontario bedroom in the 1940s: write out your own name and then the name of a boy you fancy‚ cancel all the duplicated letters‚ then count the rest on

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    A Grotesque Life Southern Ontario Gothic‚ a form of story telling is perceived throughout these three stories‚ “Floating Bridge”‚ “Tricks” and “Wenlock Edge”‚ all told by the author of Alice Munro. These stories interact with the characters minds and how they perceive life through every experience they’ve gone through. All three stories have Southern Ontario Gothic in common due to all characters relate to having grotesque features whether in their appearance and or personality. In “Floating

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