Short Stories- "The Knife" By Judah Waten Textual Analysis
Title -The Knife
Author - Judah Waten
Anthology - Spectrum One – Narrative Short Stories. pg 133
Plot
The Knife written by Judah Waten, is a short story about a young Italian- Plinio, who has immigrated to Australia from a ‘poor village in Calabria, in a very desolate part of Southern Italy'.
Plinio then starts to reminisce about the life he had back home and the reader learns that he lived in poverty and had a very modest life. It then goes on to describe Plinio walking home from work one night and he sees Mavis Keer- an attractive girl with a group of friends and her boyfriend Tommy Lawler.
Tommy notices Plinio looking at Mavis and is jealous of him, his dislike for Plinio deepens because he is Italian, so Tommy decides to humiliate him. The next time Tommy sees Plinio he knocks his hat into the gutter. The group of friends start to laugh and tease Plinio, which causes Plinios pride to be deeply hurt.
Plinio then decides to avoid the group from fear of being bashed......
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Approximate Word Count: 2398
Approximate Pages: 10 (250 words per double-spaced page)
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