Deep Holes
Deep Holes by Alice Munro
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/06/30/080630fi_fiction_munro?currentPage=all
1. What happens to Kent?
Kent really changed after his “dear-death”experience. After many years of probably just travelling around and trying to find his place, he settles down and does what makes him happy, helping others.
2. How does his life develop?
After he left college, no one but Kent himself really knows what happened. He becomes a person who cares for and help others in need, but at the expense of both himself and his family. His absence did cause a great deal of pain for his family, even to Savanna who barely knew him.
He lives on very little and seems content with it.
3. Do you understand/sympathise with Kent’s choices in life?
I can both understand and sympathise with most of his choices, but I don’t understand why he had to cut his family off. He had no good reason to just disappear without an explanation, nothing happened to him and he wasn’t in any danger. That is probably the only one of Kent’s choices I don’t understand, and can’t sympathise with.
4. How does his family react? Do you understand their attitude?
Of course they don’t react any good, a member of their family has practically abandoned them. Even Savanna who I mentioned earlier, doesn’t know him that well since he left when she was nine. But as soon as she saw him on the news, she freaked out and called the mother, Sally.
And I completely understand the father disinheriting Kent, they really didn’t know if he was alive, let alone how to reach him. I would be quite angry and confused if a member of my family suddenly went away and cut off almost all connections, only to ask about money decades later. Even if it was for a good cause, it was pretty big coming from Kent.
5. What do you think of the ending of the story? Give reasons.
I thought it was a sad ending. It didn’t really have a conclusion, but since it was a story telling us about the
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/06/30/080630fi_fiction_munro?currentPage=all
1. What happens to Kent?
Kent really changed after his “dear-death”experience. After many years of probably just travelling around and trying to find his place, he settles down and does what makes him happy, helping others.
2. How does his life develop?
After he left college, no one but Kent himself really knows what happened. He becomes a person who cares for and help others in need, but at the expense of both himself and his family. His absence did cause a great deal of pain for his family, even to Savanna who barely knew him.
He lives on very little and seems content with it.
3. Do you understand/sympathise with Kent’s choices in life?
I can both understand and sympathise with most of his choices, but I don’t understand why he had to cut his family off. He had no good reason to just disappear without an explanation, nothing happened to him and he wasn’t in any danger. That is probably the only one of Kent’s choices I don’t understand, and can’t sympathise with.
4. How does his family react? Do you understand their attitude?
Of course they don’t react any good, a member of their family has practically abandoned them. Even Savanna who I mentioned earlier, doesn’t know him that well since he left when she was nine. But as soon as she saw him on the news, she freaked out and called the mother, Sally.
And I completely understand the father disinheriting Kent, they really didn’t know if he was alive, let alone how to reach him. I would be quite angry and confused if a member of my family suddenly went away and cut off almost all connections, only to ask about money decades later. Even if it was for a good cause, it was pretty big coming from Kent.
5. What do you think of the ending of the story? Give reasons.
I thought it was a sad ending. It didn’t really have a conclusion, but since it was a story telling us about the