The short story “Sparrow and Finch” from 2015, is written by the Alison Powell, who is a writer and an English education consultant. The short story deals with issues like being the second child and how parent’s actions affect a child.
Sparrow and Finch is the name of the two twins the story as the story is about.
Finch was born an hour and twenty-two minutes before Sparrow. Their father already knew which name Finch should have as he slipped out. But it took the father a week to come up with a name for Sparrow, he had wished that he could have called her Hawk, but it seems like he was disappointed to have a girl. Through Sparrow and Finch’s life, Finch seems to be the favourite child.
The story is told through a first person narrator which …show more content…
But as their story goes, Sparrow comments on the different things, and she is explaining and defending herself for what she is going to tell next. She wants to convince the reader that what she is telling is the truth, and that she isn’t just making all this up because she is bitter. The use of repetitions makes it seem like Sparrow defends herself for what she has done, or what people thought she has done. She tells that she never pushed her brother, but maybe people has been accusing her for pushing him down from the treehouse. Another repetition is how she tells twice that she is proud of him. Even though he always has been the favourite child, she still loves her brother, and it actually seems like Sparrow and Finch have a good …show more content…
Sparrow tells; “I was proud of him, in a way. I’d never be the one to hold him back.” She is proud of her brother and she doesn’t hold her grudge against him for all of his success, yet she still wishes that it was her or that she could have some of that success. The mother brags about Finch achievements to her friends, and Sparrow was by her side listening to all the story about Finch, and filling in what the mother forgot.
“’And he won the sack-race, without even cutting a hole in the bottom like he did last year.’ Yes. Thank you, Sparrow that’s enough’”. Sparrow wants to tell that Finch isn’t all picture perfect, that he actually cheated in a sack-race last year, but it doesn’t seem like the mother is pleased about that being told, after all she wants to make it seem like he is the perfect son.
Sparrow and Finch had a little game together which included stroking the skin on the inside of each other’s wrists, and seeing who could stand it the longest. In this game Sparrow would always win, she tells that she imagined that her wrist belonged to someone else, so she rejected the pain. Maybe this wasn’t the only thing she imagined, maybe she also imagined that she was somebody else, it seems like that she feels very unloved and wished that she had another
Sparrow and Finch is the name of the two twins the story as the story is about.
Finch was born an hour and twenty-two minutes before Sparrow. Their father already knew which name Finch should have as he slipped out. But it took the father a week to come up with a name for Sparrow, he had wished that he could have called her Hawk, but it seems like he was disappointed to have a girl. Through Sparrow and Finch’s life, Finch seems to be the favourite child.
The story is told through a first person narrator which …show more content…
But as their story goes, Sparrow comments on the different things, and she is explaining and defending herself for what she is going to tell next. She wants to convince the reader that what she is telling is the truth, and that she isn’t just making all this up because she is bitter. The use of repetitions makes it seem like Sparrow defends herself for what she has done, or what people thought she has done. She tells that she never pushed her brother, but maybe people has been accusing her for pushing him down from the treehouse. Another repetition is how she tells twice that she is proud of him. Even though he always has been the favourite child, she still loves her brother, and it actually seems like Sparrow and Finch have a good …show more content…
Sparrow tells; “I was proud of him, in a way. I’d never be the one to hold him back.” She is proud of her brother and she doesn’t hold her grudge against him for all of his success, yet she still wishes that it was her or that she could have some of that success. The mother brags about Finch achievements to her friends, and Sparrow was by her side listening to all the story about Finch, and filling in what the mother forgot.
“’And he won the sack-race, without even cutting a hole in the bottom like he did last year.’ Yes. Thank you, Sparrow that’s enough’”. Sparrow wants to tell that Finch isn’t all picture perfect, that he actually cheated in a sack-race last year, but it doesn’t seem like the mother is pleased about that being told, after all she wants to make it seem like he is the perfect son.
Sparrow and Finch had a little game together which included stroking the skin on the inside of each other’s wrists, and seeing who could stand it the longest. In this game Sparrow would always win, she tells that she imagined that her wrist belonged to someone else, so she rejected the pain. Maybe this wasn’t the only thing she imagined, maybe she also imagined that she was somebody else, it seems like that she feels very unloved and wished that she had another