"The Country Husband" by John Cheever

Summary:

This story is about a man named Francis Weed. The story starts of with Francis on a place from Minneapolis. And the plane is forced to make an emergency landing on a corn field. And after the plane crash he came home to his family. But his wife Julia and there four kids were not very interested by his story and what had happened. But he felt that he had been given another chance to live his life. When he got home he went to the backyard were he sat by his garden and thought about what had happened. He was thinking about how he was given another chance and it was going to make sure he took advantage of it. And he listens to the sound of his suburban neighborhood. They live in the suburbs of New England called Shady Hill.

Characters:

Francis Weed: The Main Character in the story and the one who was in the plane that had to make the emergency landing.

Julia: Francis's wife.

Four Children: Francis and Julia's four kids

About The Author:

John Cheever was born on May 27, 1912 and he died on June 18, 1982. He was an American novelist and a short story writer. He writes fiction stories mostly located in the upper east side of Manhattan, the Westchester Suburbs, and old New England villages.

Themes:

Near Death Experience: I think that a theme to this story should be near Death Experience. Because he has a very scary near death experience which causes him to think that he has gotten a second chance at life.

Change: Because of the plane crash i would say that change would be a theme in this story because after the crash he decided that he was giving a second chance to live his life.

Meaning:

The meaning of this story is that life could end at any second and anything can happen to you. So you should live your life and to things that you like. Because at anytime something can happen to you. Like in the story a plane crash. So you should not waste your life you should enjoy every day of it.

Conflicts:

The conflict in the story is the plane crash and him changed his life around because he got another chance to live life. So the conflict of the story is the plane crash.

Questions:

1. Why did he choose to change his life around after the crash.

2. Why did his family not care about what had happened to him.

Reader Response:

I thought this story was interesting because of the plane crash. I thought that it was cool that he survied the plane crash and dicided to turn his life around. But i thought it was kind off mean that his family did not really care about what had happened to him. But the fact that he realized that he got a second chance to live life was cool. I like the idea of the story.