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 SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION MY SUMMER VACATION STARTED ON APRIL 13. DURING HOLIDAYS‚ I WAS READING STORY BOOKS AND I SAW SO MANY CINEMAS. THEN I WENT TO DIFFERENT CLASSES TO ENHANCE MY KNOWLEDGE SKILLS DURING HOLIDAYS. ON MAY 1 WE STARTED OUR JOURNEY WITH MY FAMILY TO KOLKATA. IN KOLKATA I SAW SO MANY PLACES LIKE VICTORIA MEMORIAL‚ JAINT TEMPLE‚ UNDERGROUND METRO RAIL‚ SUNDER BANS ETC.. I STAYED FOR THREE DAYS IN KOLKATA. THE FOURTH DAY I LEFT FOR NEW JALPAIGURI. FROM THERE I WENT TO DARJEELING
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How I Spent My Holidays Holidays come in a period where people have leisure time. In most places‚ it is called summer time. It comes after working periods‚ i.e. the time students go to school or people go to work. Last holiday my family and I except my dad had gone to Jamine. The journey was a long and stressful one. It took 9 hours to reach our destination. We went to Jamine from my country. In the airport there were no services in our phones so we decided to buy a sim card. After
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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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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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never write and marries the mailman‚ who believes that she waited by the mailbox for him every day‚ although Edie never tells him that she had waited for Chris because she likes "for people to think what pleases them and makes them happy." How I Met My Husband Summary A red-and-silver plane lands at the old fairgrounds across the road from the home of the Peebles‚ for whom Edie works. Edie’s first close-up view of an airplane leads to her first encounter with romance. Edie is both eager for
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Last winter‚ with my family I had gone to Shimla for holidays. That was a very memorable moment for me. It was a three day vacation in Shimla. With my parents‚ my brother and one of my cousin had gone. It was winter of December and we went northwards to north it became cold. It was very enjoyable in the toy train and was very exciting. The roads were wide and the train was slow. The hills were beautiful. We were going up in the Himalayas. Below it was lush green‚ with some terrace cultivation and
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Sir Isaac Newton‚ to me‚ is probably the most influential person to my academic life. If I were given the opportunity to hold a 30-minute conversation with any person in history‚ I would choose him. Isaac Newton was one of the most important contributors to the fields of physics and calculus‚ subjects I hold highly for their fascinating complexity. For his scientific and mathematical contributions‚ Newton revolutionized the intellectual world. His three laws of motion provide the fundamentals of
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