How I Met My Husband Donielle Miller Eng 125 03/02/2014 The story of “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro (1974)‚ is a story about a young naïve farm girl that had very little education or money‚ she was hired as a worker for a wealthy family. She finds love where and when she least expected to‚ all the while she was maturing into a lady. Edie get her first encounter with men and romance. The story is told in first person point of view‚ through the eyes of Edie and
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Love Everyone can remember what it’s like to be naïve when you’re young. It is easy to think that you already know everything there is to know and if someone contradicts your thoughts‚ they are the one that is naïve. Edie‚ the main character in How I Met My Husband‚ is naïve at her young age and is led to believe she has feelings for a man she really doesn’t know. Many of the characters in this story are so one-sided in their mindset that they are not able to acknowledge what is right under their
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“How I Met My Husband” 1. The plot structure in this story is chronological order. The arrangement of the plot elements it’s effective because its tells us exactly what the title is‚ how Edie met her husband. My expectations as a reader are overturned when she marries the mailman. Throughout the whole story I thought she would marry the pilot‚ like every other love story. After waiting some time the love of their life comes back and marries them. Instead she while waiting for the pilot she
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In the short story How I Met My Husband by author Alice Munro‚ the setting takes place in a small country town around the end of WWII. It is easy to tell that Edie feels a little out of place in the Peebles’ house since they are new to the country and are more wealthy than Edie’s family. When Edie was describing her job she says‚ “Mrs. Peebles had an automatic washer and dryer‚ the first I ever saw‚” (Munro 220). This quote shows how not many people were able to afford luxuries like modern day conveniences
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My Last Day At School The twelfth of February 1960‚ was my last day at school. I was full of mingled feelings of joy and sorrow. I was happy at the idea of freedom and preparatory holidays for full one month. I was sad at the thought of parting from my teachers‚ friends and Alma Mater. We were asked to come to school at 2 p.m. on that day. All the students of the 10th class were well-dressed. Everybody appeared at his best. First of all‚ we were photographed. Then we had a sumptuous feast
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The Last Thing I Remember Have you ever had a nightmare about being captured and taken miles away from your home? In The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan‚ this is exactly what happens to Charlie West. It’s action-packed and quick paced‚ but could be compelling for many different types of people. This novel is the first book in the Homelander series‚ which is a thrilling‚ suspenseful four-book series. In this novel‚ Charlie wakes up in a strange place‚ strapped into a chair. He was surrounded
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Essay If I have the opportunity to travel back through time. I would like to stop at the Vietnam War era. When I was young‚ I didn’t obtain anything my history teacher lectured. I just learned to get over with it and not comprehend any information. Not until I came to the United States and started to learn about my country’s history. By that time‚ I was old enough to understand what this war was about and how many innocent lives have been sacrificed. This topic has attracted all my interest. I spent
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When I was younger I took a interest in art. Every day I really pursued learning how to draw. I started out tracing things from magazines and books that I really enjoyed. After tracing I would try my best to draw what I just traced. I slowly moved away from tracing‚ and was drawing things on my own. My mother began to realize I was taking a sudden appreciation in art. So she placed me in a drawing class and a pottery class. She wanted me to enjoy myself and try to get better at what I wanted
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Harris Professor Mathewson English 132-01 September 24‚ 2012 How I Broke My Wrist I thought I was going to play a friendly game of football until something bad happened to me. I broke my left wrist and it hurt really badly. I learned that breaking a bone is very painful and recommend that everyone avoid anything that could cause you to get hurt in serious way like breaking a bone. It all started on the weekend when my brother and I were really bored. We decided to go up to the athletic center
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19 March 2014 How I View Failures In life‚ no one wants to fail at anything they do because they think failure leads them nowhere. They think failure is embarrassing and they usually given up trying to finish what they started. Sometimes people fail due to their own faults such as not studying for a test‚ therefore that person will fail. But other times it may not be their fault in failing. An example would be in a competition where someone gets picked as the winner and the other person doesn’t
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