Tuesday, May 22, 2012

What are the slice of life characteristics in the short story ''A Day's Wait''?Give examples from the story of these characteristics.

"SLICE OF LIFE" EXAMPLES FROM "A DAY'S
WAIT"


  • Schatz closes the windows
    because it had gotten cold in the house during the
    night.

  • Schatz sits by the fireplace for
    warmth.

  • The doctor arrives to diagnose Schatz. Although
    unusual today, doctors often made house calls during much of the 20th
    century.

  • The father read pirate stories to his son while
    he was sick.

  • The father took his dog for a walk and did
    some hunting along the way.

  • Both the dog and the man had
    trouble walking on the slick ice, and both of them
    fell.

  • The father took the boy's temperature and gave him
    a glass of water.

  • Schatz misunderstands the temperature
    reading (confusing Fahrenheit with centigrade), and the father explains to him that his
    high temperature is actually normal for a bout with the
    flu.

  • The next day, Schatz slowly began to relax, but "he
    cried very easily at little things that were of no
    importance."

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