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The Short Story 'The Bath' By Raymond Carver

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I chose the short history "The Bath" by Raymond Carver, for two reasons: for being the first suggestion and because already heard about this author. This tale involves an accident that leads to coma a boy on the day of his birthday. The child, Scotty, is run over on his way to school. The birthday party, planned by her mother, does not happen, and “the cake with the son's name and decorated with a spaceship and a launching pad under a sprinkling of white stars, which she had ordered for in a bakery a few days before” (CARVER, 1989. p. 48), did not be caught, causing the wrath of the baker, and unaware of the reasons that led to absence of the client, starts calling menacingly to the family home, without identifying himself. The development

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