Words by Carol Shields

In a short invention Words, published in 1985, Carol Shields introduces her main fictitious character Ian, who goes to the international convocation to exhibit his northern country on climate change, and where he meets Isobel. It is non for her attractive appearance, though he sees that her neck is slender, her waist nail and her legs long and brown, it is for her dreadful articulation, her wit and her voice as rare and fine as a border of funds leaf that he go in love with (Shields 238). here(predicate) the fibber is using a simile to show Isobels unique voice.\nThe main tension in this story is the uppity use of the haggling, their meaning or lack of any words at all. It is Isobel who teaches Ian basic Spanish words that he translates congest in English. At the blood line of a story, Shields chooses simple vocabulary, much(prenominal) as table, chair, glass,, mouth that describes and makes a parallel to the exciting and clever surrounding with cool drinks, café, streets, and sight around her characters. It is a spotless place for them to promise in two languages, but close importantly with their eyes, without too more words, to love each former(a) for ever (239).\nShields opens a crude situation or reveals a different period effect with each paragraph of the story. straightway ten years later, Ian, already married to Isobel, goes to the same conference. In this part of the story, the speaker makes a parallel and comparison of how Ian has changed from the time he was at the conference with Isobel, where he missed the sessions to bask that time with her, and how he pays economic aid to every detail in the conference now.\nHere at the conference he learns that it is the overindulgence of the words that increases the temperature of the earths crust and creates lakes of fire. The narrator creates an allusion and mystery in her apologue by telling a reader that proliferation of language, cautiously chosen words and footing can destro y the homo (French 183)....