Honeysuckle House Essay

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Honeysuckle House The short story is called Honeysuckle House. It was written by Molly Greenwood in 1977. The story takes place in England after the second world war (probably sometime in 70’s). The story is about 2 young people called Maggie and Jimmy who are both Servants/slaves. They are to visit an old lady called Mrs. Baker and do some chores of hers. She is in the beginning bossing them around but she later offers them hard candy and tells them a story. The story she tells is about 3 German men who crashed in a plane once. The story is written in Third person point of view and is limited to Maggie’s point of view, because we hear about her feelings and her thoughts but not about any other people’s feelings or thoughts. Maggie is a very open person. In the beginning she seems happy and excited about going to Mrs. Baker’s house. In the ending she becomes sad and she can’t understand how anyone can do what Mrs. Baker did to the German who crashed in the plane. Throughout the whole story we hear about her feelings and thoughts. Mrs. Baker is an old lady who lives in the Honeysuckle House. At first she comes off as a bossy lady who is strict, but a little later she seems as a nice lady since she offers hard candy and tells a story. Another thing that makes her seem nice is that she says “Dear” a lot. For an example on page 2 line 22-23 “Most of my life, dear. I came here as a young married woman, and that’s a long way back, I can tell you.” And also on page 2 line 41-44 where she says: The door opened. Jimmy said. “Where’ll I put the clippings?” “There’s the compost heap down at the bottom. And while you’re there could you get some sticks from the wood for kindling, there’s a good lad.” Here she calls Jimmy a good lad which makes her seem very nice and kind to the young people. But then at the very ending of short story and her storytelling she tells about

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