... ending no exposition - text starts ith the action itself special event in the life of the charactersSelected Short StoriesMargaret ATOOD Scarlet IbisMargaret ATOOD Significant Moments in the Life of My MotherMargaret ATOOD The Little Red Hen Tells AllAlistair MACLEOD The ReturnJoyce MARSHALL Old omanScarlet Ibis Margaret AtoodSummaryChristine, Don and their youngest four-year-aged daughter Lilian spend their vacation in Trinidad. Don is exhausted and irritable because of his ork. But the holidays are not that relaxing for him. His ife feels a pressure he is under. And she thinks she the pressure. Christine tries to plan activities for the three of them. One day she suggested to go to a place here red birds called Ibises can be atched. They take a taxi to the samp here the birds live. There the meet other people ho ant to atch the Ibises. Together ith all kinds of tourists they make a boat trip in the samp in order to get to the roosting area of the birds. Suddenly the boat crashes against the root of a mangrove and the boat springs a leak. But the Indian ho is steering goes on as if nothing has happened. The passengers try to put the ater aay using beer cans ithout success. So a oman sits don on the hole to prevent the ater from coming in. hen they reach their destination they atch the Ibises flying. Don is very impressed, he even takes his ifes hand.Every time Christine tells this adventure to somebody she presented it as a form of entertainment.InterpretationMargaret Atood shos the crisis of a couple. The ife tries to help her exhausted husband to relax. But she does not have much success. Her husband, her daughter and she herself do not enjoy their vacation. hen she plans the boat trip to the Ibises she hopes to get some relaxation. But the tour seems to become a horror trip. The boat leaks, it starts to rain and the steering Indian does not ant to return. But for a moment she has reached hat she ant Her husband takes her hand for no reason. Only because he is so impressed. But the end of the story shos the family acting as before The ife tells their adventure as a normal entertainment trip.Form and StyleThe story is told by a third-person narrator. He portrays hat the family do and hat they think. He focuses on Christine. He shos her feelings and motivations.The story is ritten in formal English. The author rote a short exposition He introduces the family and describes here they are.Significant Moments in the Life of My MotherMargaret AtoodSummaryA daughter tells some details about her mothers life, especially about her childhood. So I ill give some examplesFor example hen the mother is only a fe years old she is given a basket full of baby chicks for Easter. She loves them to dead because she does not kno ho the raise and look after them.The mothers father is a country doctor. His office is in their house. So the mother often sees people ith cut off fingers, hands, toes and so on. Because of this experiences ith illnesses she advises her children never getting ill. And she also hardly becomes ill. But once she almost dies because her appendix burst. Her father has to do the operation although he does not like to do it because she is his daughter. That is one of the fe eaknesses the mother admit her father has.Once the narrators grandfather and one of his brothers invest money in muskrats. The ant to breed them and sell their furs. But an apple farmer ashes his spraying equipment upstream and the muskrats are poisoned.Another episode is about playing ith urine samples The mother and one of her sisters takes bottles ith yello liquid and plays in their tree house ith them. As punishment their are beaten.hen the mother as 16 she has her hair very long. Her father does not allo her to let it cut. So she asks him if she may cut it hile he is at the dentists and has tooth-ache. The daughter also tells that her fa ... Download