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Turn The Other Cheek By Bel Kaufmann
Turn the Other Cheek

Sunday in the Park is a short story by Bel Kaufmann and was written in 1985.

The story is about a family enjoying a Sunday in the park but suddenly another boy throws sand at the families 3-year-old. The family tries to stop the other boy but his father encourages him to continue and now there is a conflict between the two fathers.

The family father is called Morton and is a middle-aged man. He is an upper-middle-class educated man and works as a university teacher. He is a nice, city-pale man who rarely ever is angry, and very polite and reads The Times. Morton tries to confront the other boy's father by pleasantly saying “You're quite right”...”but just because this is a public place. ...”[1] But then he gets …show more content…
She is filled with rage against the other man becausehe puts Morton in a situation he is not used to be in, “. “She was suffused with tenderness for her husband and an impotent rage against the man for involving him in a situation so alien and distasteful to him.”[4]. In this quote we really see how distant this situation is from Morton's regular life.we also see how his wife reacts to his attempts to solve the conflict. We also see what his wife thinks about his attempts to solve the conflict, she is suffused with a tenderness for her husband. It seems as if she is a bit embarrassed by Morton but yet she understands why he does not know how to handle the situation. The other man seems delighted that the situation is getting more tense as if he really wants a fight. When both men are standing looking at each other she thinks that the situation is dreadful yet amazing, as if she wants Morton to fight the other man. She wants to see him act like a real man and stand up for his family but she knows that Morton most likely get beaten. She knows she must do something but does not. Before leaving she summons all the dignity she could and here we really see how uncomfortable the situation has made her, she is happy that the fight has been avoided. Yet she feels that it is so uncomfortable because she felt it had something to do with her and Morton, something personal, familiar and
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