The first love is hard to get over especially when the love is not reciprocated. Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure” describes a teenager’s reaction to being dumped by her first boyfriend. How the main character handles her problem is the crux of the story. Setting The setting of the story is a small town in the 1960s. This town is conservative and does not promote alcohol. The two primary setting are the main character’s home and the home in which she baby sits—the Berrymans. Narration The narration
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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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AN OUNCE OF CURE Summary In the story “An Ounce of Cure” By Alice Munro‚ the narrator is unnamed and speaks in first person. The story follows the life of a teenage girl going through a “mid-life” teenage crisis. The setting is a very conservative southern town in the 1960’s‚ where it is considered taboo to consume alcohol. Almost nobody consumed alcohol in the teen’s town. The narrator signed an abstinence pledge in the seventh grade. As for her parents‚ her father would drink a beer on a hot
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An Ounce of Cure Defined In Alice Munro’s‚ “An Ounce of Cure‚” a typical teenage girl‚ after being dumped by her boyfriend‚ takes drastic actions to forget her emotions and later finds herself face to face with reality. With that feeling of hurt‚ devastation‚ and slight bitterness inside of her‚ she made the decision to get drunk in hopes of forgetting the emotions that suddenly overwhelmed her. Not knowing the outcome of her actions‚ she quickly becomes aware that she had done wrong. She later
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its own story or memory about finding oneself‚ or coming of age‚ as it is sometimes called. At times‚ it takes a melodramatic event to reveal an individual’s true identity. The old saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is the possible basis of the author’s title – “An Ounce of Cure “. The title foretells coming events by implying that something emotionally devastating happens. Everyone knows how hard it is to break away from his or her circle of peers. After all
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Plagiarism: An Ounce of Prevention … by Miguel Roig‚ psychology professor‚ St. John’s University While student cheating‚ particularly plagiarism‚ should be old news to most academic observers‚ it continues to challenge the integrity of undergraduate and graduate education. The results of the latest large-scale study by researcher Donald McCabe of Rutgers University1 are unequivocal about the scope of the problem. Of more than 70‚000 undergraduates and 10‚000 graduate students surveyed across
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There comes a time in every person’s life when they reach the point where they are no longer a child‚ but an adult. “coming of age” is not something that usually happens in one exact moment but a gradual experience. In Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure”‚ the narrator recalls her past as a teenager. During these years‚ she experiences heart-wrenching situations that no one her age should ever have to experience. Though‚ this leads to her “crossing the bridge of innocence”. Although “coming of age” is
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Modern literary analyses and studies make the link between literary techniques such as narrative and storytelling and several other disciplines. Thus‚ one may find the theories of narrative and storytelling extending up to several major disciplines‚ such as philosophy‚ psychology‚ and literary criticism. In the view of different experts in literary analyses‚ there is a close connection between narrative or storytelling and the definition of the nature of self and personal identity. The former has
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"Kids will be kids." (Unknown) That is the theme of the story "An Ounce of Cure‚" by Alice Munro. This story starts out with the narrator and her boyfriend breaking-up. She is very sad. Soon after‚ she baby-sits for the Berrymans’. While there‚ she drinks some of their liquor. After a few drinks‚ she begins to throw-up. She calls Joyce‚ her best friend‚ to come over and help her. When Joyce arrives‚ she brought with her some other people that had been with her. Soon‚ Mr. Berryman came home
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The aim of this short essay is to illustrate Anselm’s doctrine Cur Deus Homo‚ in reference to his interpretation of the atonement and then relate it to the characteristic claims of the Chalcedonian creed regarding Jesus Christ as one person to be recognized in two nature’s’. Anselm’s theory on atonement is that of a philosophical one which he believes should be understood as a necessity. Anselm’s doctrine‚ Cur Deus Homo’ which is translated as why God became a man (human being)’‚ and the motive
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