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Quotes

"When did he blow out the light?"

-quote reflects on the time period and how they did not have electricity.

" The chickens are more like people."

-quote reflects on the author's perspective of judgment of oneself can be mixed up.

Father

Plot

  • The main character of the story
  • Supposed to be a someone to look up to for his son
  • His son does not want to be like him because, he is to caught up in making money
  • Always seems to fail
  • a childhood memory, that eventually becomes the authors outlook on life
  • focuses on narrator's father
  • He loses his happiness from trying to be something that he is not

Setting

Video

Works Cited

Works Cited

Main Idea

  • Sometime in the late 1860's
  • On a Saturday evening
  • Bidwell, Ohio
  • In a farm on the countryside
  • Chicken coop
  • Around the time of the Civil War
  • Spring

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  • How a Father can lose that special connection with their son so easily
  • One must fail in order to succeed
  • Things in life do not come easily

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The Son

  • Finds humor in his father's failure.
  • Realizes that death surrounds his family.
  • Considers happiness to be a disease.
  • Wants to learn different from father.

Symbolism

Thematic Message

  • The Egg symbolizes loss
  • The father symbolizes regret and disappointment
  • The farm symbolizes the family's life
  • The wife symbolizes change
  • The chicken symbolizes tragedy and people
  • Raising of chickens symbolizes the time period
  • You don't know what you have until it's gone
  • Ambition feeds one's mind
  • One must have hope in order to be successful
  • Change has an effect on the little things

"The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson- presented by Lauren & Britt

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