Kevin In Incoming Tide

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In Incoming Tide, Kevin visits his old town and the places he remembered. In the beginning Kevin meets his old teacher Mrs. Kitteridge, who shows up and seems to bring back the bad memories. This bring discomfort and a negative effect on Kevin.
In the story Incoming Tide, Kevin’s discomfort begins when Olive forces herself into Kevin’s car. “He started to shake his head.”(34). Kevin may have felt awkward because he had not seen his teacher in many years and now was a very different person now. Olive also knew about his past that Kevin did not seem too fond of. Kevin also showed discomfort in his conversation with Olive, as he would short answer her or just acknowledge that he heard what she had said. “He made a sound with his throat, acknowledging.”(35)
Olive had brought up Kevin’s mother during their conversation in his car. Olive stated that she had liked Kevin’s mother and that she was a smart lady. Kevin didn’t seem to mind this until she mentioned her father’s death. “Don’t know if you know this or not, but that was the case …show more content…

Kevin hearing his father’s name had gone back to his old memories about his father, memories he was not to fond of. “All the degrees Kevin had acquired, the colleges and the university’s he had gone to with the fellowships and scholarships he had received, his father never showed up.(43) Kevin’s dad had not been to many of Kevin’s events and this brought up the fact that Kevin had a broken family.
While olive was just trying to catch up with her old student, she brought him discomfort. It seemed she did not do this on purpose as she meant well and just wanted to talk to Kevin. From the start Kevin did not want to talk to Olive so he short answered her a lot. This caused olive to try to bring up conversation with Kevin and unintentionally brought up Kevin’s bad past and memories, causing Kevin to feel discomfort and bring a negative effect on

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