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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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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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‚ nobody
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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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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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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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"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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in the realization of the narrative theory of identity. One of the superior examples of this relationship between literature and narrative theory of identity is Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure” and the author has been celebrated as making observations on the episodic nature of life through her stories. “An Ounce of Cure” presents an important episodic nature of life through the mid-teenage problems and crises in the life of the main character and the major theme of the story reminds the readers that
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Alice Munro’s short story‚ “An Ounce of Cure‚” pertains to a young teenage girl‚ dealing irrationally with a break up. The setting is in a town‚ where drinking alcohol is almost considered foreign. The narrator’s dad would lightly consume beer on a hot day. As for her mother‚ she did not join in on the occasion. The narrator is a reliable person who babysits around town. The title of reliability soon changes into irresponsibility after she gets heart broken from a boy named‚ Martin Collingwood. She
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Prevention is Better than Cure Document Transcript • 1. Prevention is Better than CureWhen it comes to fires in the home‚ most of us are of the opinion that it will never happen in ourhomes – if this is your way of thinking‚ you couldn’t be more wrong. Imagine getting home fromwork one day and finding a fire engine in your driveway – this happened to me once and‚ believeme‚ it is not a good feeling.Using a Smoke DetectorStudies have shown that the majority of serious household fires could have
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