Robert Fountain is an american writer. The year of his birth is unkown, but it is said that he died in 1965. He spent his childhood in Ottawa's Lower Town and later became a writer of short stories.
The title of the text - "My mother's hands" is not so appropiate to the context. The title isn't very sugestive because it makes us think that the story will be about mother and her hard work that she had done for family and how is reflected on her hands. The true meaning of this expression is shown at the end of the text, when the husband came home with a bottle of lotion for her hands.
We can determine the text as a life or a love story because the author describes the relationship between one couple and their arguments in family.
Also, we can identify some global themes, such as love and the life lived by a couple with all their feelings and thoughts. The narrator thought that it was impossible to find something new in the person you care about, even after a long marriage, but his parents proved him wrong. Althought, they didn't show it to the outside world. Their love was strong and this thing kept them together for such a long time.
The main characters are the old couple- husband and wife and their son, who is the narrator of this story.
The story begins with a short description of the narrator's parents,who were in their late seventies and who lived a very quiet life. He tryed to organize for them some travels in the nature, but it had no effects on their old lives. One day, when author usually came to bring some scallops for them, he was surprised by an extraordinary thing : his parents were in a bad quarrel. They had different ideas on an event from past. This situation ended with the husband's escape. Narrator and his mother were very worried, so that he won't start drinking again as he did when he was young. All the bad thoughts were shattered when the husband entered in the house with a bottle of hands lotion, giving it to his beautiful and beloved wife.
The beggining of the story is very interesting , but unusual. It serves as the opening at the text and showes the author's view about love between people.
I think that the main idea is : even after 50 years of marriage , the spuses still love eachother deeply, in despite of the conflict that took place between them.
In the end, the author finally understands that his parents have a special relationship.
The author's language is simple. The vocabulary is used in harmony with the theme and with the described situations. It is colloquial and easy for the reader to understand.
In the text, aren't used many stylistic devices, just a few comparisons to describe how important mother's hands were for the husband : 'To my father, though, they must have been the hands of a young woman he loved, a woman who had stayed for a long time in his heart as precisely the same woman".
From my point of view, this is a wonderful story that can be read in a short time, that supports the idea of unconditional love that still exists through the time.
The title of the text - "My mother's hands" is not so appropiate to the context. The title isn't very sugestive because it makes us think that the story will be about mother and her hard work that she had done for family and how is reflected on her hands. The true meaning of this expression is shown at the end of the text, when the husband came home with a bottle of lotion for her hands.
We can determine the text as a life or a love story because the author describes the relationship between one couple and their arguments in family.
Also, we can identify some global themes, such as love and the life lived by a couple with all their feelings and thoughts. The narrator thought that it was impossible to find something new in the person you care about, even after a long marriage, but his parents proved him wrong. Althought, they didn't show it to the outside world. Their love was strong and this thing kept them together for such a long time.
The main characters are the old couple- husband and wife and their son, who is the narrator of this story.
The story begins with a short description of the narrator's parents,who were in their late seventies and who lived a very quiet life. He tryed to organize for them some travels in the nature, but it had no effects on their old lives. One day, when author usually came to bring some scallops for them, he was surprised by an extraordinary thing : his parents were in a bad quarrel. They had different ideas on an event from past. This situation ended with the husband's escape. Narrator and his mother were very worried, so that he won't start drinking again as he did when he was young. All the bad thoughts were shattered when the husband entered in the house with a bottle of hands lotion, giving it to his beautiful and beloved wife.
The beggining of the story is very interesting , but unusual. It serves as the opening at the text and showes the author's view about love between people.
I think that the main idea is : even after 50 years of marriage , the spuses still love eachother deeply, in despite of the conflict that took place between them.
In the end, the author finally understands that his parents have a special relationship.
The author's language is simple. The vocabulary is used in harmony with the theme and with the described situations. It is colloquial and easy for the reader to understand.
In the text, aren't used many stylistic devices, just a few comparisons to describe how important mother's hands were for the husband : 'To my father, though, they must have been the hands of a young woman he loved, a woman who had stayed for a long time in his heart as precisely the same woman".
From my point of view, this is a wonderful story that can be read in a short time, that supports the idea of unconditional love that still exists through the time.
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