It is interesting to note, therefore, that the meaning of the name, "Ralph- symbolizes: good, positive leadership, responsibility, dedication, survival, and means counsel'. ... It is almost sad to see the little children playing on the beach all day and crying all night, and then seeing the older boys, who are not really that much older, murdering other people and setting fire to the island. ...
A hot and breathless night toward the end of August, the patriotic smell of hot dogs and French fries in the still air. ... After they have parted that night, he is desperate, he says: It's not my fault I'm not Marvin or Shelley. ... It is important to note that fairly early in the story, the narrator makes the following statement "of course this is a summer romance, but bear with me and see with what banal literary irony it all turns out or does not turn out at all." ...
This intrigues the reader giving them a notion that the calmness of the night will not last for long. ... Lord Sannox says "I had long intended to make a little example, your note of Wednesday miscarried, and I have it here in my pocket-book. ...
Next, it is essential to note that the original story was written in Spanish and translated to English. ... For instance, he resembles "when one hole is closed another open"(p45) situation to Penelope and her weaving nights and says "whatever he wove by day I tore at night" or he says "the worries of the King of France ought not to have stopped me sleeping"(p44). ...
"The Prologue" begins in "medias res": "the story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless- It sets the frame of the story on three reference points: the place - the old house - the time - the evening or the night when stories are told - and the cultural setting - the reference to ghost stories. ... She thinks of herself as having a mission to fulfill, regarding her new circumstances she notes: "they had, as it were, an extended and a mass for which I have not been prepared and in the presence of which I found myself, freshly, a little scared, not less than a little proud". ...
