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A 5 page essay that discusses and analyzes Alice Munro's short story "An Ounce of Cure." In this story, a young woman recalls the most embarrassing event of her adolescence, an incident which dramatizes the truth that choices have a lasting effect, as they inevitably lead to consequences that affect the course of growth and maturity. No additional sources cited.
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Munro does make a serious point. In this story, a young woman recalls the most embarrassing event of her adolescence, an incident which dramatizes the truth that choices have a
lasting effect, as they inevitably lead to consequences that affect the course of growth and maturity. In developing this theme, Munro also emphasizes that hearts do mend, so long as
the owner of the broken heart does not do anything too drastic before time has a chance to heal the wound. The narrator of the story relates the details
of her first love, her first kiss, and how things were going fine until her boyfriend landed a role in a school play. The narrator is soon "dropped" in favor
the girl who was performing opposite her former boyfriend. The narrator describes how she suffered from "real misery" for months, although -- at this point -- she realizes that it
was largely "self-inflicted." Her feelings come to a head one night as she is babysitting for the Berrymans, a couple that -- unlike the narrators parents -- have a liquor
bottle where the teenager can find it. From the beginning of the story, Munro lets the reader know that the narrator is going to make a serious decision
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 434). Also Munro makes it very evidence that the
narrator is fully aware that she is about to do something that irresponsible. She relates, "I got up and found the Berrymans Dance Macabre and put it on the CD
player and turned out the living-room lights" (Munro 436). Now, with appropriately dramatic and "evil"-sounding music in the background, the narrator proceeds to have two slugs of the Berrymans scotch.
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