DEEP HOLES

Critical Analysis:

Alice Munro is a Canadian writer considered the modern master of short stories who had won the Nobel Prize in literature this year.She wanted to write novels like all the people wanted in that years, but she didn’t had enough time because she had little child who took the most part of her time. She notice she wouldn’t have enough time to write a novel so she started writing short stories in her free time. She started writing as a teenager in Wingham, Ontario, the place where she grew up, and she was able to finish her stories in 1 month or 6 weeks because she had to do what a mother is supposed to do. She was married to James Monroe for 25 years had two daughters and moved to Victoria DC and won three awards. When her first marriage ended she moved back to Ontario, where she get married again and continued writing short stories. Her stories are about the life and the relationship between a mother and her daughter because when she was young she had a strong bond with her mother, who had an illness which is probably the responsible of that strong relationship.

Summary:

Deep Holes is the story of a family who went camping in Alex honour because of publishing his first solo paper. They went to Osler Bluff and they found a place to park cars with no cars in these moment in which were a sign with “Caution. Deep Holes.” They walked into a forest where they found deep chambers. Once they had already eaten, the kids, Kent and Peter went to pee, and after a few minutes, Peter returned crying because Kent had fallen into a hole. When his father could take him out, they drove to the hospital because Kent had broken both his legs. He couldn’t go to the school

the next six months so he made some Extra Projects. In one of them he had to write about one

place. Sally, his mother told him about some remote islands that nobody talked about. Before

the accident he seemed to be more mature than other kids of his age. When he got to high school the relationship with his father improved. But after six months he left school and went working to a Canadian Tire in a suburb. His parents told him to

go back school but Kent refused. One day he left and didn’t said where he was going to. After three

years he sent a letter from California in which he said that he didn’t want to get stuck into a

job and that he want to see world.

Sally thought that Kent was in one of the islands that she mentioned to him, and she realized that she didn’t known so much about them, so she started to investigate. One day Alex went to the hospital for an operation, but when he was supposed to go home he died.

One day Savanna, Sally’s daughter, called Sally and asked if she was watching TV because she had just seen Kent helping in an accident. Savanna started investigating and she discovered that Kent had been living in Toronto for years. They get in touch with him and Sally decided to meet him. When he finally met they went to Kent’s house and talked about what have been doing since he left home. Sally realized that Kent had another way of seeing things.

Here author showed his willingness about the relationship that is there with every

family. Yes, Kent turned into a mature person that quite interesting cause as we know ‘Experience comes with bad decisions and good decisions comes with bad experience.’ Here as like that Kent changed a lot, for him it is totally different from others to see the world while other have a different corner for seeing the world. The story is quite interesting for describing a complicated relationship and hardships came to Sally while living her life with her daughter but the ending of story came up with a happiness of finding the Kent and leading happy life.

Bibliography:
Panday, Dr.Sanjay Prasad. “Beauty: Illusion or Reality”. The Achiever’s Journal 1.1(2015)
npage. Web < theachieversjournal.com>

By Partha Sarathi Padhi

Reg. 11404568