What happends when twins get jealous of each other? The short story about Sparrow and Finch tells us about that. Two siblings, where the older one of them is more loved than the youngest and have a better life and where the youngest just stand along the sideline watching.
The protagonist of the story is a girl named Sparrow after the bird, for short she is called Spaz, however she prefers to be called Rowie or Row since Spaz isn’t that nice. She is the youngest twin and she claims that it was her, who pushed his twin brother out of the birth canal. Her twin brother, whose name is Finch, is the family’s favorite child. Finch got his name the second, he came out, but Sparrow got her weeks after “the story goes that as soon as he slipped onto …show more content…
“As I said, I never pushed my brother. But I wouldn’t be the one to hold him back”2 in this quote it says that she wouldn’t mind him jumping. She would never push him herself, but she wouldn’t stop him from jumping – perhaps to his death. In the beginning of the story, Sparrow tells us about how amazing her brother is, and how she is just standing in his shadow. When the grandmother says that Sparrow will probably be called Spaz in high school. Sparrow and Finch’s mother doesn’t say anything and states it will all be fine, and the children wouldn’t call her that. They do though. When Sparrow then comes to her father, crying, he just tells her it sounds cool, Spaz and …show more content…
We get the impression that Sparrow feels like she is living in Finch’s shadow. She doesn’t realize, she is feeling that way before further into the story, as she is just proud of her brother, since everyone else is, in the start of the story. Later she realizes that she feels like Finch is more important and special than her. There we have the sibling jealousy. Both goes hand in hand. Sparrow and Finch does an excellent job telling us the problems with having a child which you appreciate/prioritize more than your other
The protagonist of the story is a girl named Sparrow after the bird, for short she is called Spaz, however she prefers to be called Rowie or Row since Spaz isn’t that nice. She is the youngest twin and she claims that it was her, who pushed his twin brother out of the birth canal. Her twin brother, whose name is Finch, is the family’s favorite child. Finch got his name the second, he came out, but Sparrow got her weeks after “the story goes that as soon as he slipped onto …show more content…
“As I said, I never pushed my brother. But I wouldn’t be the one to hold him back”2 in this quote it says that she wouldn’t mind him jumping. She would never push him herself, but she wouldn’t stop him from jumping – perhaps to his death. In the beginning of the story, Sparrow tells us about how amazing her brother is, and how she is just standing in his shadow. When the grandmother says that Sparrow will probably be called Spaz in high school. Sparrow and Finch’s mother doesn’t say anything and states it will all be fine, and the children wouldn’t call her that. They do though. When Sparrow then comes to her father, crying, he just tells her it sounds cool, Spaz and …show more content…
We get the impression that Sparrow feels like she is living in Finch’s shadow. She doesn’t realize, she is feeling that way before further into the story, as she is just proud of her brother, since everyone else is, in the start of the story. Later she realizes that she feels like Finch is more important and special than her. There we have the sibling jealousy. Both goes hand in hand. Sparrow and Finch does an excellent job telling us the problems with having a child which you appreciate/prioritize more than your other