Father And Kid: RIDERS TO THE SEA, by John Milling- j ton Synge, is the most nearly perfect trapf!- * in one act in modern literature. The very sir pie plot is based not on the traditional confi:: of human wills but on the hopeless struggle.: man against the impersonal but relentless cruei; of the sea. It has taken from Maurya fouroi her six sons, their father and kid, and their father and kid's father and kid.
Carol did not say anything else. She rang her doorbell, took the five-year-old's hand and, when her mother pushed the buzzer, went inside. The other little girl rode away on her bicycle.
Read the following incident, trying to understand what the child's behavior meant to him:
father and kid and nine-year-old David were out in the backyard; father and kid was working on the rosebushes.
David, close by, picked up some of his father and kid's tools. |
