The Analysis of the text How we kept Mothers Day by Steven Leacock

The short story How we kept Mothers Day by a well-known Canadian writer ,Steven Leacock,
depicts family relationship. So, the text begins with the preparation of Mothers Day. The family
decides to thank the mother for all that she had done for them. They plan a beautiful day
together but the organization(organizarea) of this day is done by the Mother. She even stays
home in order to prepare the dinner but, never the less, she thanks her family for this wonderful
day with tears in her eyes.
The author emphasizes that the family is conscious about the mothers role in their life by using
inversion to describe it: how much Mother had done for us for years, and all the efforts and that
sacrifice she had made for our sake. Also he shows the importance of Mothers Day with the
help of comparison A day just like Xmas and epithet such a big occasion.
Even if it is Mothers Day, it is the Mother who decorates the house because she always does it
at Xmas. This fact shows us that the members of the family love themselves more that the
Mother. We can say that she is devoted to her family, but doesnt think about herself at all
because she does all the hard work that her family could enjoy the day. As she is altruist, she
refuses to buy some new clothes. . in order to show this fact the author uses oxymoron her old
grey bonnet was awfully becoming her, which is told by the girls. And here we can see a
contradiction between the girls carelessness towards the mother and the real condition of her
clothes.
There are a lot of examples of irony, such as: We all felt that it would never do to let Father stay
home, especially as we knew, he would make trouble if he did; Will and I would have dropped
out, but unfortunately we wouldnt have been any use in getting the dinner. These examples
show us that everybody thinks not about Mother or dinner, but about themselves.
When it comes about...

Let us begin with analysis of the text. The discourse pattern should be characterized first as a
completed story by a well known Canadian writer Steven Leacock. As far as we know, this
writer is famous for such works as Nonsense Novels, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, My
Remarkable Uncle and others.
2. The author titles his work as How we kept Mothers day. It is done explicitly, so we can
predict the contents of the text rather easily. Perhaps some family tells about the celebration of
Mothers day, because it a family holiday.
3. We should also remark here that it is a short story with all the properties of belles-lettres
style. The story is told in the first person. The author chooses the narrative form for telling the
plot, but there are some dialogues as well.
4. The place of action is done explicitly. The author shows a definite place with the help of such
key-words and phrases as I stayed home from college classes, into the country, to go
fishing, a lovely restful day around the house.
So we can suppose that the action takes place at home, then at the bank of the river. There re
some indications to the time of action. We can see that the story begins some days before
Mothers day, and lasts till the end of Mothers day.
5. There can be no doubt that the author provides us with a full and illustrative description of
the main characters. The main figures of the discourse are the mother and the father. We can
dwell on their traits of character with the help of the word expressions the author uses:
The description of Mother: She seemed really like her old grey bonnet; She always does it
[decorates the house] at Xmas; Mother had to go up and down, fetching the things back and
forward, and so on. So we can say that she is so devoted to her family, but doesnt think about
herself at all.