_I Wish I Never Met Him_ Two years ago‚ I met this guy online. He lived really close to me and we talked one night for a couple hours. He seemed like a really nice guy‚ but he wanted me to go to his house right off the bat‚ so I lost contact with him. Well‚ fast-forward to about seven months ago and I found him on facebook‚ so I added him as a friend. At first‚ I was just wanting to be his friend‚ but we started talking online‚ then he started talking about sex‚ then he started talking about wanting
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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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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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The story is about a young girl‚ Edie‚ who is hired help for Dr. Peebles and his family. One afternoon while the family is away in town‚ Edie meets Chris Watters‚ a pilot who travels from town to town giving rides in his plane for a fee. Edie falls in love with him‚ but soon learns that he is engaged to another woman‚ Alice Kelling. Alice is crazy and has been following Chris everywhere in hopes of marrying him. One day while Alice‚ Mrs. Peebles and the children were away on a picnic‚ Edie goes to
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In the short story “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro the structure of the plot and the conflict work in unity to reach the conclusion. This story has a sympathetic protagonist dealing with a relatable conflict‚ suspense‚ and a twist ending that may keep the reader thinking after the last lines have been read. The protagonist in this story‚ Edie‚ is a timid person who is always doing whatever makes other people happy and never says what she wants. She describes herself as “shy” (Munro 127)
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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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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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ow I Met Your Mother (often abbreviated to HIMYM) is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19‚ 2005. The 2013–14 season is the show’s ninth and final season.[1] The series follows the main character‚ Ted Mosby‚ and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device‚ Ted‚ in the year 2030‚ recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting their mother. The show was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays‚ who also serve as the show’s executive producers and frequent
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If I met three famous people who I like‚ I would be one of most happiest people in the world.I don’t know what I would do‚ but I would be very happy. I will tell you about three famous people who I would like to meet. At first I would like to meet my favourite boy-band Backstreet Boys. It’s the best boy-band in pop music history. They are five guys from the USA‚ and they became very famous after their album ’’Millennium’’ release in 1999.I’m their very big fan since 2007. And if I met them I would
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off is CBS’ How I Met Your Mother. The idea of telling your kids the day you met your wife (their mother) may sound like a boring story and a horrible show plot. Writers found the right formula to mix romance‚ sex‚ relationships‚ and comedy all in one to create this hit show. In this analysis I will break down what the show is made of from the obvious visual to the more in-depth hidden values and messages that are coded within the show. This show came to my presences while I was on a plane and
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