pg. 76-79
What is the theme of the story?
It is about an old man not giving way to conservative ideas like leaving home, and taking responsibilities and young people enjoying themselves, not caring about the thoughts of older times.
What are developed and undeveloped characters in a story?
A developed character is a character whose background is told in the story and the readers can figure out the character's personality, feelings and the situation. Undeveloped character is a character whose background and personality are not told specifically, but maybe vaguely.
In this story, the old man and Alice are the developed characters and Steven and Lucy are undeveloped characters.
Who are the characters?
The old man, Alice, Steven and Lucy.
Describe the characters.
The old man is an old minded man who likes to keep things and people by his side, and doesn't want to let go of them. We can tell this by him not letting his pigeons get out of their cages and not being happy with Alice marrying a man. He is insecure about his 'possessions' leaving him. Pigeon symbolises peace and maybe his way to keep peace was by keeping them with him.
Alice, the granddaughter is very excited for her new life and wants to be with the man as long as she wants and she also wants to get married as soon as she wants. She is open minded and has totally different mind from her grandfather.
Alice's mother, Lucy is very opened as well and considers Alice's opinion than the old man's because it is Alice's choice and it's her life, so she lets Alice do what she wants to do.
Steve is also a modern, open minded person who knows what to give away and to impress the old man for the approval of the marriage.
This story shows the difference of thoughts of the young people and how people from the past thinks.
We can tell this by him not letting his... or this is evident in the fact that ...
ReplyDelete2.Pigeon symbolizes peace and maybe his way to keep peace was by keeping them with him.: ... and perhaps this is how he prefer to maintain peace by keeping the pigeons in a cage. Here , there is a conceived controversy between what we call security an peace. On the one hand a cage represent safety for the birds but on the other hand a cage is there to ruin freedom.
quite similarly, the old man 's attempt to provide safety for his granddaughter is interpreted a threat for her freedom by the girl.