The Trip To Halawa Valley :: essays research papers

The Trip to Halawa Valley"The Trip to Halawa Valley," is a compendious story written by Lynne SharonSchwartz. The story is about a news succeeding and getting married in Hawaii,and the reunification of his divorced p arnts. The parents conk the chief(prenominal)focus of the story when the son suggests that they go on a trip to Halawa Valley.In this story Schwartz is find outing to show people that formerly you make adecision it is genuinely hard to diverge back on that decision. With all the characters,except for the briefly mentioned newlyweds, Schwartz shows how decisions make bya person or a couple are hard to turn back on. An example of this is Paulsparents. Lois and Jim are brought back together in Hawaii, and try to rekindletheir love for each other. After their trip though, they realize it hatful non bedone, and part in their own separate ways.Schwartz does a very good job of showing the reader the experience she is nerve-racking to convey. She does this by using a couple different charactersthroughout the story. The main ones she uses are the parents, and that is thevery obvious example. A few other examples are not as clear, but they do showhow decisions are an substantial factor in life and once made are very hard toturn around. Using Pauls brother Anthony, Schwartz shows that once he made thedecision to join the Hare Krishnas there was no turning back, even if that meantnot communicating with his parents anymore. Schwartz also uses Pauls otherbrother Eric. When Eric announced that he was gay, his parents had to make thetough decision to either support or not support his choice in sexuality.     Schwartz fall ins the characters very fast, but in doing so makes thestory move faster. Throughout the story the characters are being substantialthrough the thoughts of both Lois and Jim. They talk about their kids and howone of them died at get on 11 due to a brain tumor. Schwartz also makes Loisdevelop Jim, and Jim develop Lois. She does this by making them reminisce abouttheir past together.     The conflict in this short story is between the parents of Paul.