Sorry for Disturbing You
A) Write an essay (700-900 words) in which you analyse and interpret Richard Knight’s short story “Sorry for Disturbing You”. To put your interpretation into perspective, your essay must include a discussion of at least two of the other items listed below. One of these must be a text.
Being alone is something that some people voluntarilychose to be, while loneliness is an involuntary eternal state that hurts its offer. When feeling lonely, you feel that you do not really belong anywhere, and that no one really appreciates you. At worst, it can make you feel, that no one would miss you if you were not here anymore.
The text “Sorry for Disturbing You” by Richard Knightdeals with loneliness and choices you make in life.The short story is being told by a third person limited narrator and stretches over a single night.It starts in medias res when an old and apparently abandoned man called Michael Phelps knocks the door of a house he hasn’t been visiting for 22 years: ”The first thing Ian noticed, as the stiff door lunched open in his hand, was the icy rain running in beads down the man’s face”(p.2 line 1).
Ian, the protagonist of the story,is home alone with his daughter the night Michael Phelps comes by. However, he decides to invite in the old man even though he seems very drunk. On his way in, Michael leaves a dark print on the yellow wall: “…and placed a hand on the bright yellow painted wall inside the door, leaving a dark print”. (p.2 line 23). This gives us the impression that he is very dirty and unkempt. The dark print appears again later in the textwhen Ian’s wife, Karen, returns home.
Karen is staying at her mother’s house this evening since Ian and her are having things to sort out. While Michael is inside Ian’s housecalling for a taxi, Ian starts wondering about who Edie and George are. Michael mentioned these two namesin the start of the text, when he was hanging in the doorframe waiting for Ian to let him in. After a while, Ian finds out that Edie
Being alone is something that some people voluntarilychose to be, while loneliness is an involuntary eternal state that hurts its offer. When feeling lonely, you feel that you do not really belong anywhere, and that no one really appreciates you. At worst, it can make you feel, that no one would miss you if you were not here anymore.
The text “Sorry for Disturbing You” by Richard Knightdeals with loneliness and choices you make in life.The short story is being told by a third person limited narrator and stretches over a single night.It starts in medias res when an old and apparently abandoned man called Michael Phelps knocks the door of a house he hasn’t been visiting for 22 years: ”The first thing Ian noticed, as the stiff door lunched open in his hand, was the icy rain running in beads down the man’s face”(p.2 line 1).
Ian, the protagonist of the story,is home alone with his daughter the night Michael Phelps comes by. However, he decides to invite in the old man even though he seems very drunk. On his way in, Michael leaves a dark print on the yellow wall: “…and placed a hand on the bright yellow painted wall inside the door, leaving a dark print”. (p.2 line 23). This gives us the impression that he is very dirty and unkempt. The dark print appears again later in the textwhen Ian’s wife, Karen, returns home.
Karen is staying at her mother’s house this evening since Ian and her are having things to sort out. While Michael is inside Ian’s housecalling for a taxi, Ian starts wondering about who Edie and George are. Michael mentioned these two namesin the start of the text, when he was hanging in the doorframe waiting for Ian to let him in. After a while, Ian finds out that Edie