Story: An Obituary for Fifth Aunt Come Late

Conflicts

Internal conflicts
• Author and herself ( she regretted that she does remember her Aunt better, pg 150)
External conflicts
• The grown-up and Aunt ( they do want their children to know their Aunt, pg 149)
• Author’s grandmother and her aunties (grew up in neglect. Favour the boys more, pg 151-152)
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Climax When the war came ( pg 156)

Resolution Revelation resolution


Characters

Aunt
• She is timid ( spoke did so in rat-a-tat fashion, spewing out words that were closely guarded, in a loud but uncertain voice, pg 150)
• She get panic easily ( could calm herself with a trip to the kitchen sink, plowing her hand into dishes and dish-soiled water, pg 150)
• She is literate
• She is hardworking ( pg 157)

Author
• She is mean ( she does not want to make it a point that she is a her niece, pg 149)
• She is judgmental ( she likes to judge her Aunt by listening to other people, pg 159)


The most interesting segment is when Aunt became a daughter again, the Fifth Sister and the Fifth Aunt. They had a small ceremony to welcome. It seems that they reunited again after many years. When the author saw that her aunt’s hand was in kitchen even in the first day aunt ad came back to the house.