The Watcher

Title: The Watcher
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1481 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Watcher

The story “The Watcher”, written in 1982, is a short story set in 1959. The narrator, “the watcher” first starts off by summarising his childhood and by describing his family to give us a clear view of the whole situation, his surroundings. The narrator’s characterizations about his family are critical. He explains how they are not the most honourable family. They seemed pretty ill mannered for they cursed a great deal. This short story illustrates how …showed first 75 words of 1481 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1481 total…and he was aware of that. When Thomas saw Evelyn waving, the narrator thought she was definitely waving goodbye. This brings out the fact that Thomas could have been mistaken since he was a “pushy” person (given examples above). The whole last scene reinforced the theme by emphasizing even more how each character’s personality was like and how this family was not a “ordinary” one when it came to behaviour and dealing with problems.

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