Analysis Of "Pomegranate Blossoms"

Authors have many different ways to make a story interesting. These ways that they use are called style. They use it to describe the events in a story, the feelings and much more. Fiorella De Lura Calce, the author of "Pomegranate Blossoms", has used several elements of fiction in her story in order to describe the relationship between the main characters. The central elements in this text are the plot, the author's style and finally the setting.

To begin, the fruit that is in question in the title, the pomegranate can be used to describe the plot. More precisely its taste is what describes the plot of the story. We can see that the beginning is "sweet" because that everything was calm. The "bitterness" began when Andrea arrived and started arguing with Katia. All the argument they had turn the plot "bitter". Finally, the ending can be defined as "bittersweet" for we do not know what will happen in the future. We can assume that she might or might not be happy for the one that she loves cannot be with her also that the fact that she has a baby could make her happy. (80)

Furthermore, the author's style and the setting describe the relationship that is in question. At some point in the story, Katia pictures the pomegranate blossoms falling from the tree. (79) This could be a symbol for the fact that the relationship is breaking up. We could associate the blossom with their love and the fact that they fall means that it is fading having. Also, at the end of the story it is written: "I stared long after the darkness swallowed him." (80) This is also another symbol for the breaking up of the relation between them, for the darkness that swallowed Andrea could symbolized that he his disappearing from her life thus she will never see him again. The author's style in conjunction with the setting describes well the relation between the two main characters.