Long-Long After School Analysis

"The version of that sentence that a writer chooses tells us a lot about the situation, the speaker, and the person being spoken to." "From Exclusion to Belonging” by Gary Yee is a narrative essay based on Chinese immigrants who search for a place to belong. It is about Chinese immigrants having to pay a separate head tax which prevents Chinese immigrants from coming to Canada and separating Chinese families. “Long Long After School” by Ernest Buckler is a short story based on a teenage black boy Wes who is bullied and looked down upon due to his skin color. He was protected and liked by a third grade teacher, Miss. Threthway, but that was until she dies and Wes goes through it all alone. An author can have many styles of writing such as literary

In “Long Long After School” Buckler writes in a recount with mysteriousness and in a depressing way. Buckler uses many literary terms to illustrate or depict a particular message. In reference to the short story Buckler makes an ironic statement that may reveal or imply that Wes may like Miss. Tretheway. “She was so beautiful” (Buckler, pg.49). The use of irony is obvious because the reader later realizes that what Wes meant was the opposite of what the reader may have thought. Wes makes this comment without any explanation and later on the reader learns that Wes really meant she was beautiful within, and not necessarily physically. Buckler also come to show that the meaning of a word can have a a strong foundation of what the text means. "It was a corsage. A corsage of simple flowers, such as a young boy sends his girl for her first formal dance."(Buckler,pg.48). A corsage is not something a young boy gives to an old lady, this is shown to prove symbolism of a real corsage for a dance, but also has bigger symbolic meaning for Wes and Miss. Tretheway because she never had a corsage given to her by a boy or