Essays on Alice

The story “An Ounce of Cure” by Alice Munro is a story portraying the life of a teenage girl. The story unfolds events that will eventually present the decisions a typical teenager will make and the consequences to their actions. The story presents the main character of the story as a typical teenage girl who…

The theme of Alice Munro’s story “How I met my Husband” is Social expectations mold individual circumstances. Edie, a fifteen year old housemaid in the lower class of society has qualities and talents that demonstrate a skill set of aristocracy. “Have a house without pie, be ashamed until you die” is a quoted statement that…

Regardless of whether one participates or not, there is no denying the significant impact that online social networking sites, such us MySpace and Facebook, are having on America’s younger generations. These trends are duly noted in Alice Mathias’s New York Times feature, “The Fakebook Generation” and Dana Fleming’s New England Journal of Higher Education article,…

Unpolished Gem One finds pain and comedy running through Alice Pung’s migrant story THIS IS A MEMOIR SO vivid that images from it linger behind your eyelids – the pig’s blood jelly that Alice Pung’s father remembers wistfully; the festive paper chains made of cut-up Target catalogues; the fate of the chocolate eggs that the…

The short story “Red Dress” by Alice Munro is about a young girl’s first high school dance. Her home and school environment determined her attitude towards the dance.This girl’s home life was bad. She was constantly put down mentally by her mother, even in front of her friend Lonnie, to the point that the narrator…