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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“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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Patrick Silva AP Lit Period 4 Mr. Schmitz October 11‚ 2012 How I Met My Husband Thesis Paper The theme of Alice Munro’s story “How I met my Husband” is Social expectations mold individual circumstances. Edie‚ a fifteen year old housemaid in the lower class of society has qualities and talents that demonstrate a skill set of aristocracy. "Have a house without pie‚ be ashamed until you die" is a quoted statement that Edie ’s mother used to say to her that Mrs. Peebles was not very familiar
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always like this though‚ I was embarassed of my naturality. I dreamt of waking up with straight waves and hair that didn’t frizz up at the slightest percentage of humidity. I was that girl that would stay awake until 2AM to straighten my hair for school the next day‚ only to come face first with 8 hours of discomfort from having to avoid any sort of water. You speak to me with a little spit in your mouth and I’ll run away faster than you can imagine just to avoid having my hair disobey me more than
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Explain how you grew One of the most challenging experiences I have ever had was the first time I was a volunteer teacher. At first‚ I thought it would be a piece of cake for a sophomore to handle. However‚ it was an embarrassing and frustrating experience. What went wrong? Even after I asked them to be quiet several times‚ the students still kept talking. So I became more and more nervous‚ and spoke faster and faster. After a while‚ I just hoped the bell would ring. After that class‚ I was extremely
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dilapidated‚ it will no doubt be used to make the next version of the black box. Some have talked about replacing the black box; however‚ the unsurprising consensus is to keep it as is. Clearly they do not care about the actual box‚ at least based on how they treat it. Think of this box symbolically as representing the tradition which these townspeople do not really understand and no longer has any current meaning‚ yet they are unwilling to give it up simply because it has become a town tradition
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Case Study on Business Ethics: Holiday Cheer or Ethical Dilemma? Williams had joined Star Corporation‚ one of the leading consumer electronics company‚ only a few days back as the Purchase Manager and he was going through the employees conduct manual. He was attracted by the clause‚ prohibiting acceptance of gifts by the employees of the purchase department. It read as follows: “Purchase department employees shall not accept gifts from vendors. This is to ensure that no vendor is given any
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Alice Munro published “How I Met My Husband” in her book Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974). Told from the first-person point of view‚ the story layers the voice of the fifteen-year-old Edie‚ working as a “hired girl” in the house of the comparatively wealthy Peebles family‚ with that of the adult Edie‚ now happily married and wiser than she was as a teenager. Edie’s voice is colloquial and friendly‚ keenly aware of its audience. In this way‚ the story celebrates the art of storytelling
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Blueprint 1 A Blueprint for Coming of Age Blueprint 2 The short story How I Met my Husband is a story about a fifteen year old girl who has a coming of age experience while working for a doctor and his wife. The author‚ Alice Munro utilizes several literary techniques to convey a very relatable theme‚ that of young idealized romance and the ironies we learn about
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chool holidays are not too long. Children are forced to attend school between 9am and 3:30pm every weekday which is fine in primary school‚ but when it gets to secondary school‚ children often have to contend with bullying and humiliation in school on a regular basis as well as a greater workload. Christmas and Easter breaks‚ as well as half term are great‚ but they’re not enough time to really relax. A lot of the time they will be spend doing family things. The good thing is about summer holidays
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