In Superman and Paula Browns New Snowsuit the main character feels
betrayed by others. Compare how feelings of betrayal are shown in this
story and another story of your choice.
a) The ways in which the main character is let down by others.
b) How the authors show the feelings of betrayal by the way in which
they write.
c) Differences in the stories.
I am going to talk about themes of betrayal, comparing "Superman and
Paula Browns New Snowsuit" and "Chemistry". In both of these stories,
some characters are betrayed. The narrator in "Superman and Paula
Browns New Snowsuit" is betrayed by her community when they think she
is guilty of pushing over Paula Brown and ruining her new coat. She
felt especially betrayed by her Uncle Frank, whom she compares with
Superman, as he is her hero in the story. When he does not believe
her, she describes it as; "the year the war began and the real world,
and the difference." The experience taught her lesson, and marks the
end of her childhood. In "Chemistry", it is Grandfather, who is
betrayed by his daughter and Ralph. The narrator, his widowed mother
and grandfather once lived together in harmony in the grandfathers'
house. Their harmony is disturbed by the arrival of Ralph, his
mothers' boyfriend. Grandfather becomes increasingly isolated when his
daughter and Ralph are mean to him so he retires to his shed, and
eventually commits suicide, leaving the others to begin a new life.
The stories are both about themes of betrayal, and at the same time
are very contrasting stories. "Superman and Paula Browns New Snowsuit"
is about more trivial things, a Snowsuit being ruined, but it was
important to the narrator because it showed her the "real world", and
taught...
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...s much more factual whereas the other is more
opinionated and uses much more metaphors and similes. The style of
"Chemistry" is such that it always seems to keep to the point, and
when there are sometimes long descriptions about things which do not
seem t first important, there always seems to be a hidden meaning
behind them, for example the door to the shed which symbolised a "step
out" or half way out of life for Grandfather. In "Superman and Paula
Browns New Snowsuit" there are a lot of things which do not have much
significance to the story, and which add more detail to just set the
scene; "he taught me some ju-jitsu in the living room until mother
called us for supper". They have some similarities, they are both
about relationships between family, and about their childhoods. They
are also about changes in their lives and in the way they look at
life.
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