Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Margaret's Group for October 3

Each student in the group is responsible for posting one short example. Group members are Sue, Tamu and Andrew.
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4 comments:

andrew said...

The uncle khosrove becomes furious about the farmer,John Byro's crying for his loss of a horse,asks,"Haven't
we all lost the homeland?" He couldn't understand "What is this crying over a horse?" even the farmer explains many consequences of the stealing. The main, interior conflict
about the different attitude on life
of the farmer and uncle vividly comes into reader's mind in the middle of the eaasy.

October 3, 2007 at 4:58 PM
tamu said...

When John Byro suspects the two boys stole his horse, and catches them with it. He says,"I could swear it is the horse that was stolen from me..." He believes the boy's family is honest. He is kindhearted.
When Mourad reveals he has a horse that was obviously stolen, Mourad's cousin wants to keep the horse longer. Saroyan wants the reader to think about theft. "Your horse has been returned. Pay no attention to it."
Saroyan created a light-hearted story atmosphere. When the horse is returned, Byro replies,"The horse is stronger than ever. Better-tempered, too." There is no serious consequence as Byro doesn't punish the thieves.

October 4, 2007 at 4:46 PM
tamu said...

When John Byro suspects the two boys stole his horse, and catches them with it. He says,"I could swear it is the horse that was stolen from me..." He believes the boy's family is honest. He is kind- hearted.

October 4, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Margaret said...

Conflict
The story shows an internal conflict that nine-year-old Aron is struggling with; on one hand he doesn’t want to believe that any “member of the Garghlanian family could be a thief”, on the other hand, he wants to ride a horse so badly that he “refused to believe “ that his cousin, Mourad, “had stolen it.”
Uncle Khorsove
William Saroyan describes uncle Khosrove as a “furious in temper, so irritable, so impatient” man that his typical reaction to someone’s complains about material loses was :”It is no harm: pay no attention.” He reacts this way probably because for him, losing his own country, “the homeland”, is the greatest tragedy than losing a horse or home someone is crying over.
John Byro
When John Byro examines the horse, he says : “I would swear it is my horse if I didn’t know your parents.” He believes that’s his horse, but quickly throws in :“A suspicious man would believed his eyes instead of his heart”. His reaction shows his deep wiseness, patience, and lenient approach to the boys, he thinks, they’ll remember the lesson they learned from him.

October 4, 2007 at 8:59 PM

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