Very often modern young people have prejudices against almost everybody, who are not just like themselves. They seem not able to lend a helping hand to these people, if they need it, unless they are almost pushed to do it. This is what happens in this short story about Sarah and Timothy.
One of the main themes in this short story is prejudices. It is obviously that Timothy is prejudiced against the family that enters the beach. He dislikes this family and especially the father because he is a Trá na Fuinseoige man, which means that he is from a certain place in Ireland. Timothy dislikes this man, and thinks that he is a snob, and a wealthy man, because the man has just bought a factory. Timothy’s prejudices against this man keeps him from helping the man in catching the ball, until he feels pushed by Sarah to do so. Even when he goes out in the water he finds that his prejudices are put to shame, because he is now able to talk to this man and share some stories.
I my opinion Sarah represents the moral of the story. Sarah is the one who feels sorry for the man, and the one who makes Timothy go out into the water twice, just to get a ball for the children. Sarah becomes some kind of a mother figure, instead of the children’s own mother. She actually cares for their feelings and if they get the right ball. The children’s real mother, on the other hand, does not care. She does not even lift her eyes away from her knitting, as if she does not care what happens to her own children.
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