Reading "Fruit and Words" confused me on three parts of the story. The first being the salt the woman sold for her fruit. The store woman said it was not normal salt but a different kind. I wondered how it could be a different kind of salt. At the end of the story I was also confused about how the fruit turned rotten after she had left the store. I thought it possibly was the salt the woman traded for the fruit. The woman could have found/had salt that only worked in a specific atmosphere.
The last part that confused me was the words she would make especially the gases. Then it came up in the story that it just made things easier to see and understand. When it came to the gases I thought the store woman was crazy on being able to make words out of gases especially since she could only see some of them, but as the story continued it almost brought out the strange fact she could possibly be a witch. The fact she had blood started that thought, and that she threw it at the womans car instead of something else. I also thought this because she didn't leave her store front and the fruit went rotten immediately after leaving the store.
Kevin Ostempowski Post 1
Might the salt be one of her words? Might it be salt in the shape of SALT? Why might this be significant?
ReplyDeleteWhy do YOU think the fruit rots by the end of the story?
Is the woman a witch, an artist, or both? Is she justified in being angry when the narrator breaks some of the gas words? What might this gas words themselves symbolize?
You've made some interesting observations here, just push them a bit further. What do YOU think all of these elements within the story mean?