The Themes Of 'Mending Walls And Everyday Use'

The stories I’m doing are “Mending walls” by Robert Frost, “A&P” by Updike and, “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. These stories are all unique in their own ways because one is a friendship betrayal type story and another is about older times were the items were really needed and some people depended on them and they fight for them and you can tell theirs a lot of anger and tension in the family about these items.

“We meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again”, the theme of “Mending Walls” is friendship and betrayal and trustworthy, because they are friendly to each other and are good friends and they trust each other but they also fight like some neighbors do about stupid things like oh he put something up and its almost touching my property line and I don’t like it or he put something up that is blocking a view and I don’t like it so let’s fight about it. This poem takes place in Eastern U.S. The tone of this is calm and co-operative, because this poem is basically about the two farmers who come together after so many years to repair this stone wall that breaks down and it separates their two orchards because one farmer’s father always did it so he does it as a tradition to remember his father, but the other farmer thinks it’s a dumb idea and it’s just a waste of time because his orchard won’t go into his. How this relates to everyday life is because there are a lot of farmers and neighbors that fight about land, and there are a lot of people that have traditions or do things to remember someone. A couple ideas are, and makes gaps even two can pass abreast, which means people can pass through it. Where they have left not one stone on stone but they would have the rabbit out of hiding to please the yelping dogs, ...

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...ss comes out and yells at them. The cashier goes and stands up for them and quits his job for the three girls. The theme of this story is sort of anger and confidents because the cashier is angry at his boss and is confident that his way is right about the girls. The tone of this story is kind of sexist because there women and the boss said their wearing nothing get out of my store. This relates to everyday items because they are used to that kind of situations in the beach areas like Florida and California.

My conclusion of all these stories are that they are all kind of alike in a little way because they are all fighting about what they think is right like all the themes can be anger. But also the stories are all different in their own unique ways by neighbors fighting, sisters arguing about quilts, and a cashier quieting for girls he doesn’t know he can get.