A STORY
ENGLISH | THE HERITAGE OF WORDS
Dylan Thomes
This humorous story is narrated by a very young who is
living with his uncle and aunt. In this story, the boy presents the adults'
world from a child’s point of view. This story is about a day’s outing to
Porthcawl by motor coach. In the first part of the story, the boy describes his
uncle and aunt using metaphors and similes. The uncle was big and noisy whereas
his wife was small and quiet who used to move on padded paws. The boy compares
his uncle with a buffalo and a dismantle ship. He compared his aunt with her
cat because of her quick and quiet movement and with a mouse because of her
nibbling habit and tiny tone.
Every Saturday night after heated arguments, the aunt
used to hit the uncle on the head after the uncle lifted her on to a chair. The
boy also describes uncle’s few friends in the story. Mr. Benjamin Franklyn
collected the money for the outing and bought 20 cases of light wine. Will
Sentry kept a strict vigil on Benjamin by following him everywhere in order to
guard the money. One Sunday evening Benjamin and Will Sentry came to uncle with
a list of persons who had paid for the outing for his approval. After their
departure, the aunt asked the uncle to choose either her or the outing. The
uncle however chose the outing at which she became furious at breakfast. The
next Sunday the boy found that the aunt had already left the house.
Finally the boy describes that the uncle and his friends
made a trip to Porthcawl for the outing. When they were out of the village for
their destination, they found that old O’Jones had been left behind and they
had to go back to the village to pick up him. After O’Jones got on, Mr. Weazely
wanted to go home to take his teeth. However his friends convinced him that the
teeth wouldn’t be necessary for him in the outing. On the way to the Porthcawl
they stopped at every public house (Bar) and drank alcohol heaving the boy
outside as children were not allowed into the bars on seem a river on the way
they went swimming there. They didn’t actually arrive at Porthcawl on the way
home, it was already hate everything. Old O’Jones started cooking his dinner
with kerosene stove and other members started drinking alcohol sitting in a
circle in front of closed bar. The boy began to sleep leaning on his uncle’s
waist coat.
The writer in the story is also able to create humor by
describing the uncle, aunt, uncle’s friends and their behavior. However, the
writer points out towards the bitter aspect connected with human behavior and
habit of drinking alcohol. Alcoholic drink may change people’s behavior making
them selfish, cruel and indifferent towards others suffering. Alcohol brings
the nice atmosphere of uncle’s family on the verge of breakfast. Uncle and his
friends also exhibited cruelty towards the small boy after drinking alcohol as
they were totally careless about him during the entire trip.
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