Nuns at luncheon Aldous Huxley

The narrator is having lunch with Miss Penny, who is telling him about a nun she met when she had appendicitis. Miss Penny had seen Sister Agatha in the hospital dressed as a nun, wearing a winged coif, but one day she appeared dressed as a charwoman and started to scrub the floor, which really puzzled Miss Penny. She found out then, that the nun had been demoted because she had run away with Kuno, a half-Italian prisoner who left her soon after. Miss Penny discusses possibilities of how to fill in the blanks in this story so that she can, along with the narrator (who is a fiction writer), make some money out of it. They imagine how he made her fall in love with him, and how he went about leaving her. They also wonder about the nuns humiliation and loss of self-esteem, as Kuno had used her to escape and had stolen her set of false ivory and gold teeth, probably to sell it. Miss Penny realizes she has to go and, as she leaves, reminds the narrator to write about the nuns bizarre burial (she was made to attend her own funeral as a punishment for breaking her vows). Element: Point of view : There are two points of view interrelated in this narrative, because there is a story being told inside the story. The main narrator tells the story in first person. He is not the protagonist, but he is part of the story, the reader experiences his feelings and point of view (for example, the fact that the reader is made aware of the narrators thoughts about Miss Pennys horse laugh). The second narrator, Miss Penny, begins narrating Sister Agathas story in first person (although she is not the principal character of that particular plot), describing how she meets the nun and sees her dressed as a charwoman a few days later. She then goes on to narrate in third person (being limited omniscient), telling about what happened when the nun took care of Kuno in hospital and subsequently ran away with him.

The destructors - Graham Greene

The boys in the Wormsly Common Gang experience a shift in leadership as the newcomer T. suggests smashing an old mans house to pieces. It is post-war England, and the house is already in bad shape, as it had only just survived a bombing. T. finds out that the owner, Old Misery, will be away during the Bank holiday, and comes up with a plan to reduce his place to rubble. The gang works hard for two days, and manages to destroy the entire interior of the place, leaving just the exterior walls up. One of the gang members runs in and warns the others that Old Misery is early on his return, and is now on his way back to the house. When he gets closer, T. tricks the old man by convincing him that someone is hurt inside the loo shed, and locks him in there for the night. They go on destroying the house. Blackie, former and present leader (having just recuperated his position), suggests they weaken the joints of the house, which leaves the whole building balanced on a few inches of mortar. They tie a rope from the house to a lorry. The next day, when the lorrys owner drives it away, the rope pulls the house and the walls come tumbling down. The driver finds and releases Old Misery from his lavatory, and laughs at the whole situation. Element: Theme: The post-war scenario is not denoted only by the house supported on wooden struts, it is also understood in the destructive behaviour of the members of the gang. The demolishing carried out by the gang is like a diorama of the war in Europe, with hierarchic disputes and politics (for instance the voting, the switch in command, the orders followed). At the end, when the driver laughs, it is almost as if they were forgiven, because such destructiveness is all that could be

expected, as the war had desensitized people to a level that affected their discernment and notion of right and wrong.