Red Truck Essay

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Write a summary of the red truck: In this short story we hear about Fintan’s childhood. His friend Sylvia is driving him to his childhood home, where his mother lives, the house is sold, so there for she wants him to pick up his stuff from his childhood. Suddenly he found a box, with a red truck in. This red truck had been his favorite toys, and gift. One day at his childhood, the red truck was gone and then he became angry, because he thought his older brother had been taking it from him. A while after he founds the red truck, which was, in the cornfield and remembered what happen that day the truck “disappeared”. When he found it he hid it in a box, and now he was telling his mother that he found the red truck, which Peter had saved for him. Characterize Fintan: Fintan is nearly fiftieth. He can’t believe that he become that old. His friends Advising him to get a real job, and start save for retirement. The only way he can feel the oldness is because he has problems with the time. When he went to school for nearly three decades before, his sculptures were exhibited and he did a lot of shifting girlfriends. His partners were always the same age. He has older brothers - Shane and Peter - who teased him when he was about six years old. When he was young he won a handball medals and a first-price essay certificate. These two things were the things he was excelled in as a child, but not anymore. His most clear relic from his childhood was the red truck he got to his 6 year old birthday. He ignored all the other presents that day. The only thing Fintan was thinking about when he woke up in the morning was the red truck. The red truck gave him manliness and sometimes it escaped him from the humiliations from his older brothers. It doesn’t seem that Fintan and his mother had a very good relationship. Fintan got mad at Sylvia when she is driving Fintan home to his

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