THURBER
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In the short fiction "The Day the Dam Broke" author James Thurber tells the fiction story of the “flood run” that was experienced in his town in 1913. Throughout the short story the returning theme is be careful with what you say. It started with one person who suddenly started to run away from High Street. Then another person began to run, and another, and another. Within ten minutes everyone was running away and somehow the rumor had started that the dam had broken. What started with someone running away, who was never in any danger, ended with a whole town believing that they were doomed for destruction. The same thing can happen with our words. If we aren’t careful our words can easily be mistaken and turned into something completely false.
ReplyDelete'My Life and Hard Times : The Day the Dam Brooke' by James Thurber talks about a tragic flooding that happened in Ohio. They all thought a dam broke and everyone in the city were very upset, so her grandfather and a couple of other people were on a run along High street. "My memories of what my family and I went through during the 1913 flood in Ohio I would gladly forget." This quote sets the tone of this short fictional story because of the way that she explains her feelings for the flooding. She seemed like she was depressed about the whole situation. During this whole situation, everyone was being a follower not a leader. The rumor was out that the "dam broke" and because one person believed that it broke and started to run away everyone else did the same thing. We'll can't listen to everything and believe it.
ReplyDeleteIn the short fictional story about the “Flood Run” in 1913 called “My Life and Hard Times 3. The Day the Dam Broke” by James Thurber. Tells the story of what happened when someone said “the dam broke”. It explains how a rumor could affect an entire town, make them do things that are out of the ordinary. People left their stoves on, husbands left their wives and children at home. The theme that continues throughout the story is sad, it gives off this theme because of the fact that he misses his town. As he says in the first paragraph “And yet neither the hardships we endured nor the turmoil and confusion we experienced can alter my feeling toward my native state and city.” Basically saying that he will love his city no matter what even though the events that happened makes it so he won’t go back.
ReplyDeleteMy life and Hard Times written by Thurber is about an fictional incident called the Flood Run. The flood run was when someone claimed that that dam had broke. This story shows the effects one persons word has on society. Everyone was forced to evacuate and some left their spouses. Because of this, the theme of this story is fear. One persons false statement lead to fear in the entire town.
ReplyDeleteJames Thurber wrote a short story called My Life and Hard times. In this story we learn about an event that happened in 1913 in Ohio, where over two thousand people run for their lives when a rumor started that the dam broke. No one knows the exact reason the dam run started. Everyone ran in fear Men left the families for their own safety. In my personal opinion I would say that the theme of the story is not to always believe what you hear without doing your own investigating, because it can make a situation ten times worse than it has to be sometimes.
ReplyDeleteThe chapter 3. “The Day the Dam Broke” in “My Life and Hard Times“ written by James Thurber, tells the story about “the flood run” in 1913 in Ohio, which was a wrong alert. It started with some men running, another man joined, maybe he was too late for a meeting with his wife. Consequently, the crowd became bigger and bigger. At one point, somebody started shouting the “The das has broke”. Other were shouting “Go east”. Everybody started fleeing in to the east of the city, until they were too tired to run further. At the end, they knew it was a wrong alert. Years later the people were still embarrassed by this incident. The theme of the writing is that with a lot of small things happening, it is possible that a big avalanche might start. Always going with the people is not always the right decision.
ReplyDeleteIn James Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times" chapter three "The Day the Dam Broke" is a fiction story set in Ohio during 1913 about people running from what was rumored to be a flood from the local dam breaking. The lasting theme throughout the chapter is basically to be mindful of what people say; not to take everything everyone says as truth. The story shows that in times of crisis people don't think straight and usually do not use their mind when they speak.
ReplyDeleteJames Thurber's "The Day the Dam Broke" is about a drastic flood that happened in Ohio. The chapter is all about how one rumor can spread across an entire town and everyone will believe the rumor. People left the town because of this rumor. Some husbands even left their wife and kids because of the rumor. This is basically telling the reader that you cannot always believe what people say and that not everyone can be telling the truth
ReplyDeleteJames Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times" chapter three "The Day the Dam Broke" is a fictional story of what happens when someone says the towns dam has broken. The crazy impact that one persons word has on the town is very important. The main theme is that you should be wary of what you take as truth and what you don't.
ReplyDelete"My Life and the Hard Times: The Day the Dam Broke" is a blog written by James Thurber about James' tragedy of a flood demolishing his whole home town in Ohio. Thurber describes the little details of each second when the flood hit and how he reacts to it. The writing is very specific and in some cases disturbing to read due to the in depth information about the disaster happening around Thurber. Towards the end of the blog, Thurber claims that no matter how bad this was, we must move on from it and keep living, "The next day, the city went about its business as if nothing had happened, but there was no joking." So overall I believe the theme of James' blog is no matter how bad a situation gets in life, always learn to try and move on from it because it always could be so much worse than what it really was.
ReplyDeleteJames Thurber’s chapter three “The day the Dam Broke” has an underlying theme of paranoia because when the “broken dam” rumor was spread people started to freak out and when one person started to run east because he may have simply been late for a meeting or meeting his wife people started to follow and turn it in to the dam had broke and that the water was coming. People started to freak out and yell and scream and run away from the “water” and soon the entire town joined in and now there’s mass paranoia in a very quick sense. Just like the Salem Witch trials everyone thought there was a witch which led to them killing off innocent people. We learn we shouldn't always believe what someone says and to research what they say for ourselves.
ReplyDeleteJames Thurber’s “The Day the Dam Broke” talks about a rumor about a dam breaking. Everyone in the city war running away from the dam because they were obviously afraid they were going to get covered by water in drown. Nobody even bothered to look and see if the dam had actually broken. They were just running out of fear that the rumor was true. This story shows that we don’t need to believe everything we hear without looking for ourselves. Not everything we hear or read is true so look into things before you assume.
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