Popular Mechanics Analysis: The Need for Good Communication

In many ways, communication is important in resolving problems, strengthening relationships, helping others, becoming proactive, and much much more. Raymond Carver's novel Popular Mechanics illustrates the intense need for good communication. The story starts out with the couple fighting and the wife kicking her husband out of the house. She is being rude and aggressive and is not using proper communication, trying to cover the fact that deep inside she truly doesn't want him to leave. Then, the husband gets upset for the way he is getting treated by the wife and starts to get aggressive yelling that he was going to take their new born baby with him. She, being frightened and scared of his impulsion, runs into the kitchen trying to find somewhere for the two of them to hide but unfortunately there isn't anywhere to go and the mother and father start playing tug-a-war with their baby because they were unable to use the right communication skills to talk things out instead of taking it to a physical level. In the end though, the father is stronger and storms out of the house with the child in hand. I believe that the theme of this story is "people need to compromise and talk things out in order to resolve things peacefully".

In the beginning of the story, the situation wasn't good, but by the end after argument after argument, the situation escalated dramatically. "I'm glad you're leaving!" She began to cry. "You can't even look me in the eyes can you?" In this passage, the young wife is basically in denial and is fighting with her husband in an inappropriate and unresolvable manner. This theme relates to everyday life in many ways, it demonstrates strong use of unneeded hatred and how poor communication can and will lead to u...

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...t the animals eventually did what he had told them to do. The rebellion didn't give them exactly what they wanted because they were not given the freedom that they had longed for.

PARAGRAPH #5: CONCLUSION

Restate your thesis statement in a different way.

Give final commentary and closure: (What do you want your reader to think about when they’re done reading?)

What the animals received after the rebellion was not at all like the picture they had in their minds. The animals of Animal Farm expected a society in which they would all be equal after the rebellion.Unfortunately, they received no better than what they had had before. None of the animal's aspirations to change the farm for the better succeeded. We can't always achieve what we want with only a desperate desire. What we want is not always what we get and what we get is not always what we want.