The Sword By Fllemming Ken Character Analysis

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In Flemming Kress’ short story “The Sword” the author displays setting and character to express that immigrants to new country struggle to belong. Firstly, the author displays that the story takes place sometime in after WW2. Aaron does not fit in with everyone else except with his grandmother in their new country, Canada. In the story, it mentions “He and his papa and his Bubbie [are] barely a year in Canada. Changing countries [is] not easy”(Kress 53) and that “She [Bubbie] dressed very much like her ancestors dressed for in her country, for the past two centuries”(53). In these two quotes, it demonstrates that it [is not] not easy to switch countries and that Bubbie belongs in her old country because she dresses like people from her other