“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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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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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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Love Everyone can remember what it’s like to be naïve when you’re young. It is easy to think that you already know everything there is to know and if someone contradicts your thoughts‚ they are the one that is naïve. Edie‚ the main character in How I Met My Husband‚ is naïve at her young age and is led to believe she has feelings for a man she really doesn’t know. Many of the characters in this story are so one-sided in their mindset that they are not able to acknowledge what is right under their nose
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Morrison “How I Met My Husband” Response Q4 1 October 2013 At a young age‚ women have a tendency to be naïve and innocent. With that‚ the two factors create a vulnerable persona in a girl‚ and it compels a person to feel sympathy towards them. “How I Met My Husband” consists of a protagonist‚ Edie‚ who is also naïve and innocent as well as humble and simple. These traits convince me to believe her to be a sympathetic character in the story. As a young‚ naïve‚ gullible girl‚ I feel nothing short
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marrying him. One day while Alice‚ Mrs. Peebles and the children were away on a picnic‚ Edie goes to Chris’s campsite to talk with him. He reveals to her that he plans on leaving‚ but promises to write her. They kiss‚ and he leaves town. When the other women are told by the local gossip Loretta Bird that Chris has left‚ Alice Kelling verbally abuses Edie under the mistaken impression that Edie and Chris had sex. Mrs. Peebles protects Edie‚ and Alice leaves too. Edie waits day after day at the mailbox
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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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black box. The black box is a physical manifestation of the villagers’ connection to tradition and also the focal point of the lottery. The current black box is not the original one‚ though pieces from the old box have always been used to make the new one until the time of this box. When it gets too worn or 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
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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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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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