Red Truck Essay

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Red Truck By Maria Behan 1. The short-story is about a man called Fintan. He’s being tricked by his cohabiter, to visit his mother and clear out his things, because she’s moving. While he’s looking through his boxes, he finds a red truck. As he sees it, he gets reminded of his 6th birthday and the rest of that summer. The red truck was his favourite present, and he used to play with it every day. A month after his birthday, he woke up and saw that the truck has disappeared from it’s usually place on his bedside table. After searching the entire house, he figured that his brother had taken it to tease him. Fintan was so mad that he got a fit of rage. At the end of that summer, Fintan carried some lunch to the working men for his mother. On his way home, he found his red truck in the long grass, took it with him back home and hid it in the false bottom of his wardrobe. As an adult, he won’t admit that he was wrong about the truck and tells his mother that he found it in one of his brother’s boxes. 2. Fintan is an almost 50 year old man, who likes younger women. All of his girlfriends have been in their late 20s and all of them have graduated from art school. Fintan doesn’t have a job. He has a time problem. He has always thought that the years would progress slowly, and that he wouldn’t need a pension. People have told him to start acting his age and to get a job, but he won’t. He won’t face the necessity of getting the pension that he is supposed to live by, when he becomes an old man. Fintan is acting like a chicken. He is acting like he is scared of putting himself in a bad light, so his brothers have something else to tease him with. He is being really immature, because he won’t admit that he lost the truck himself and apologise to his brothers. He bears grudge to his brothers, so it doesn’t seem like he has a good relationship to his family. All his
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