The Parsley Garden Short Story

In the short story ¨The Parsley Garden¨ by William Saroyan the 11 year old boy Al Candraj who lives in Fresno, CA goes through a bad experience where he is humiliated. Al Candraj steals a hammer and is caught and he feels like his humiliated, he goes back to the store and he gets a job to earn the hammer to build his own bench, because he had nails and wood. He self identifies himself going back to the store and making himself look better by working and earning the hammer. Al Candraj had nails and a few thing in his house to build something, but he didn’t have a hammer so he was in town, and when he was in town he went inside a store and saw a hammer. He right away thought that he could use the hammer to build what he wanted to build, so he grabs the hammer and slips it in his pocket. “What’s he swiped?” “A hammer.” The young man looked at Al with hatred. “Hand it over,” he’s The boy brought the hammer out of his pocket and handed it to the young man, who said, “I ought to hit you over the head with it, that’s what I ought to do.” He turned to the older man, the boss, the manager of the store. This

“Where you get it, that hammer, Al?” “I got it at the store.” “How you get it? You steal it?” Al Condraj finished the bench and sat on it. “No,” he said. “I didn’t steal it.” “How you get it?” “I worked at the store for it,” Al said. “The store where you steal it yesterday?” “Yes.” “Who give you job?” “The boss.” “What you do?” “I carried different stuff to the different counters.” “Well, that’s good,” the woman said. “How long you work for that little hammer?” “I worked all day,” Al saider thinking about everything he did he went back to the store and he actually worked for the hammer. He proved people that he could work for what he wanted and that his intentions weren't to steal the hammer. He wanted not just to prove himself but others that he wasn’t a