Hitting Trees With Sticks By Jane Rogers

Read the passage carefully.

The following excerpt is from hitting trees with sticks by jane rogers published in 2010. The title story hitting trees with sticks is as poignant as it is sharp. In this her first short story collection jane rogers displays her alchemical abilities to transport and transform her ideas across continents minds and hearts and she is kind enough to take us with her. By the winner of the 2012 arthur c.

It propels the reader into the story of an elderly woman who is suffering from dementia. She has just walked by two children at play one of whom is methodically hitting a tree with a stick. Her first short story collection hitting trees with sticks doesn t reinvent the form but entertains with a set of cliche free stories that rarely end up where you d expect. As cecilia walks home from her outing.

The fact that the story is told from the first person point of view of celia clearly displays her memory loss. A young textile designer quits britain to work for a nigerian women s refuge confident that this is her one chance to make a difference. A leading scientist spends an evening trying. Clarke award on the front cover of jane rogers first story collection the testament of jessie lamb is probably her best known novel right now and no doubt for many including myself it was an introduction to her work.

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Rogers handles this with deft precision and sensitivity but it s all the more unsettling because of that. Hitting trees with sticks. Clarke award hitting trees with sticks is a collection of short stories both previously published and new brought together here for the first time. In jane rogers hitting trees with sticks the first person point of view expresses celia s complex perspective due to the emphasis on her memory loss.

Jane rogers hitting trees with sticks 2012 it s no surprise to see winner of the 2012 arthur c. A sixteen year old uses his first job as a window cleaner to peer into other people s lives and carefully plan his own. In this passage the speaker an older woman named celia benson arrives home from an outing. In hitting trees with sticks by jane rogers rogers expresses cecilia s complex perspective by limiting the reader to cecilia s thoughts feelings and knowledge only which she accomplishes by writing from first person point of view.