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Shoofly Pie

Narrative Devices

  • Third person limited narrator
  • “Mattie could not believe she dropped the giant honey jar on the floor the moment the boss entered the kitchen after his overseas trip” (pg 184 lines 1-2).
  • objective tone
  • “The restaurant had been Good For Her in all the ways it needed to be, and she could move on” (pg 198, 406 – 407).
  • narrator has no feeling

Character Analysis:

Summary

  • Mattie
  • “A secret voice in her head replied, the idiot, the donkey” (pg 184 line 8)
  • mothers death
  • low self confidence
  • “She was feeling steadier” (pg 198 line 466).
  • gain in self confidence
  • written by Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Mattie, main character
  • mothers death
  • gets job at restaurant
  • co-workers obsessed with Johnny
  • Johnny's loss
  • love ones dishes
  • Johnny likes her
  • Mattie resigned
  • got over mothers death

Plot

  • Mattie gets job at a restaurant called "Good for you"
  • try to get over death
  • “Then he told her to show up to work the next day. That was it. No application form, no interview” (pgs 187 – 188 lines 105 – 106).
  • move on from death
  • gets over mothers death
  • “The restaurant had been Good For Her in all the ways it needed to be, and she could move on” (pg 198 lines 466 – 467).

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