Perspectives

In what follows, we will provide a few points that can help you put the text “Me and Mr. Harry” by Batya Swift Yasgur into perspective. We will focus on the literary period and on literary works with the same the…

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Literary period

The short story “Me and Mr. Harry” is modernist in style.

One of the characteristics of modernist texts is the use of a first-person narrator. As you have seen, the same feature is found in “Me and Mr. Harry”…

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Works with the same theme

The theme of lack of communication between parents and children is explored in Moya Roddy’s short story “The Chemist’s Assistant”. The story focuses on a young girl’s habit of stealing, which she hides from her family and which eventually makes her reconsider her friendship with the black chemist’s assistant. The young girl, Colette, fails to properly…