The short story is about an old fellow, who comes to the plum pudding store once a week. The problem is that the man does not buy any plum puddings, but he samples them. Therefore he gets the plum puddings for free and actually steals from the store (– definition as a thief). We see the story through the woman’s eyes, therefore the shop girl has the prejudice that the man is poor and cannot afford the product. Even though the man was neatly dressed, she still has the prejudice that he is poor.
A&P Analysis John Hoyer Updike’s short story “A&P” shows an eighteen-year-olds’ point of view of a 1960’s era grocery store. The dynamic protagonist, Sammy, explains the mundane lifestyles of the customers in the store based on his observations from the checkout counter. Suddenly the store is disrupted by three girls that enter the store wearing only bathing suits and defy the organization of the business. Sammy wants to change his cookie cutter lifestyle; after observing the girls, he realizes he does not have to conform to the social standards he was lead to believe. Sammy observes the patrons of A&P mundanely going about their shopping, like “sheep pushing their carts down the aisle” (6).
Melisa Horton LS311-05: Business Law 1 Unit Four: Case Analysis “McDougal and Krunch’s Candy Store” October 16, 2012 The Case Express versus Implied Contracts. Suppose that a local businessperson, McDougal, is a good friend of Krunch, the owner of a local candy store. Every day on his lunch hour McDougal goes into Krunch’s candy store and spends about five minutes looking at the candy. After examining Krunch’s candy and talking with Krunch, McDougal usually buys one or two candy bars. One afternoon, McDougal goes into Krunch’s candy shop, looks at the candy, and picks up a $1 candy bar.
“The Box Man” Barbara Lazear Ascher The Box Man was at it again. It was his lucky night. The first stroke of good fortune occurred as darkness fell and the night watchman at 220 East Forty-fifth Street neglected to close the door as he slipped out for a cup of coffee. I saw them before the Box Man did. Just inside the entrance, cardboard cartons, clean and with their top flaps intact.
In one supermarket, they placed a few beers on a top shelf in a cereal aisle and it sat unnoticed as shoppers picked up cereals around it. When asked after they checked out, every shopper stated that they were unaware of the beers that were there. It is vey important that items are placed correctly in a supermarket because the markets for beer drinkers are not going to be looking in the cereal aisle for beer. The film also illustrates a young teenager and a young woman that are very frequent shoppers. This young teenager is only thirteen years old and has the need to go shopping almost every weekend, and the young lady is grown but has an addiction to a specific designer named Chloe.
Alone and empty in the mornings, it looked like an unopened present from a stranger. 3__ the front door was pulling 4__ ribbon off the unexpected gift. The light would come in softly (we faced north), easing itself over the shelves 5__ salmon, tobacco, thread, etc.. It fell flat 6__ the big vat of lard and 7__ noontime during the summer the grease 8__ softened to a thick soup 9__ I walked into the store in the afternoon, I sensed that 10__ was tied. I alone could 11__ the slow pulse of its job 12__ done.
The reader’s familiarity with grocery stores makes it instantly easier to visualize the setting than if Updike had attempted to set the same story in a random office building. Updike uses familiarity to his advantage. Since most readers likely have an existing knowledge of grocery stores and can visualize a typical layout, Updike begins to describe the activities happening in the store rather than describing the store itself. The reader can tell the setting is a grocery store just after reading Sammy is “in the third check-out slot, with [his] back to the door, so [he] doesn’t see them until they’re over by the bread” (Updike 17). By not having to take the time to describe to the reader the general setting Updike is able to give in-depth details about the food on the shelves, the color of the floor, the people walking the isles, and the employees behind the registers and counters.
Of course, this doesn’t go for every single person, but on the whole the people are very polite and kind towards you. In London if you are a few pounds short when buying a few things at the supermarket, the person behind you will give you the remaining you owe just to stop you feeling humiliated. In Arlington, multiple times I will be humming a song minding my own business in Wal-Mart when a random man will come up to me and ask me what song I am singing. People in both towns are so open and helpful, making the society a happier and nicer place to live. Overall, London & Arlington have many more differences than similarities, but the towns are on different sides of the world where there are different customs and different views of what standard life is.
A distinctive voice refers to someone, or something which has power and control over the responder which is able to manipulate or influence the reader. Distinctive voices are evident in the novel ‘The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender’ by Marele Day and the speech ‘I Have a Dream’ which was recited by Martin Luther King Jr in 1963. In these texts, the characters and personnel’s are brought to life through the use of dialogue, political driven voices and body language which all play a distinct role in influencing the readers. In these texts ‘The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender’ and ‘I Have a Dream’ present a distinctive voice through the use of dialogue that make the characters believable. In the novel ‘The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender’ by Marele Day, the protagonist Claudia Valentine influences the reader through the use of dialogue which makes her seem like a credential character.
Storytelling is important to human existence because it is a means of capturing memories of the past and incorporating them into ethical and everyday life. Memory and ethics coincide with each other as one can be an explanation or an observation of the other; without one, the other would most likely not make sense. Goodbye Lemon written by Adam Davies is a wonderful example that exudes the power of storytelling. The narrator, Jack, writes of the many different personal qualities and traits his deceased brother Dexter might have possessed, since Jack was too young to have any memory of his brother. Through the prologue of Goodbye Lemon , Davies wants to convey to his audience that you can bring any character to life through writing.