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Spilled salt This written assignment is about rape. Many people think that when a person is raped, it is only the man and the woman who is affected, but is this true? And if not who is also affected then. These are some of the questions I will answer while writing this assignment. I will also talk about the themes of this story, the mother/son relationship, just how the point of view changes our perspective of the story, discussing what the title means and a brief summary of the setting this story takes place in. We don’t get much information about the setting this story takes place in. The only things we know are that “Spilled salt” takes place in a poor broken household. The mother, Myrna, left her husband when her son, Kenny, was only 6 years old because her husband hit her in front of their son. We can also conclude that the house hold lies in a somewhat corrupt district since Myrna talks about how the police is known for framing people for no apparent reasons. We get this story told from the mother’s point of view. This means that we get to hear what the mother is thinking about what happened, and how uneasy she feels about having her son back from prison. We also get to know how she dealt with the feelings she had after her Kenny got sentenced. This on the other hand also means that we only get told what the mother knows about the incident her son was involved in. Myrna thinks its gods will and because we get it from her point of view it makes her and Kenny looks like victims of an unmerciful god. The themes of this story are: The mother / son relationship. This is probably the biggest theme in this story. We get to know that Myrna had absolute trust in anything Kenny said regarding the night he drove Crystal home. When she... ... middle of paper ... ...very well just how many people around you gets affected, normally one would think it’s only the man and the woman, but reading this story really opened my eyes for just how much it could ruin. It screws up family relations like it did with Kenny and Myrna and at the same time the bonds you had with your old buddies are probably gone forever. What Kenny does is trying to act like it never happened, but to rid yourself of being judged this story shows you need to start your life over. While writing this assignment I’ve been able to conclude that rape affects more people than just the man and the woman, it also affects the families and friends. We’ve found out that the title probably refers to an old roman omen for spilling salt which was a symbol for friendship. The point of view makes us feel sympathy for Myrna since it’s her thoughts and desperation we get to read.

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