the disappearance (part 1)

1.Does the title hint at anything ominous? How?
- yes it does.from the title, the reader can tell that something ominous would happen in the story and it has something to do with disappearance of someone important. so it is, the protagonist's wife were missing and it left a great impact on the family. her son kept looking for her as well as her husband. but later, the protagonist finally found out that her disappearance was because of her flee, not of crime and such. 

2. The father does not give any indication to the son that his mother is coming back. Why is that so?
- because he really do not know where the mother was. he did not want to lie to her son as he personally taught him ever not to lie. finally the father discovered that the mother ran away from home, this strengthen his intuition that she was never going to come back home to the family.


3. Do you think it is acceptable to tell a white lie?
- i think it is acceptable since we were lying to a little kid just to comfort them. then again, it depends on situation. the boy will finally know the truth sooner or later but during his age, it is acceptable for the father to just ease his mind  and he can always tell his son the truth when he is growing up and at the right time.


4. Do you think the saying 'out of sight, out of mind' summarises this short story? How?
-yes i do think it summaries the story. as we can see, the longer the protagonist being apart with her wife, the feeling towards her decreases. it was shown when he can remove her photo from the frame and replace it with the picture of him and his son. he is slowly forgetting his wife. and right after he discover that she left her, he decided to remarry and having another family to replace her.




5. Do Americans and Indians share the same values? Explain.
- they obviously did not share the same values. the first difference is the wife of the Indians ought to be loyal and obedient to her husband. meanwhile the American's wives prefer to do things on their own than listening to their husband. Other than that, the Indians' wives are more proper and they usually have the basic knowledge to manage their family such as the cooking skills. Unlike the Americans' wives, they not likely have the basic of the knowledge as they rather buy or feed their family with fast food than prepare it on their own.