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Josefine. The title and how the theme of innocence and experience unfolds in this story:
Josefine. The title and how the theme of innocence and experience unfolds in this story:
 
The title refers to a line, where Salma gets a bruise from the house: “She would wake with bruises shaped like curtain hooks” (l. 52). 

The theme unfolds by Salma going through the transition from girl to woman. She starts out as an innocent nine-year old girl, who must live with her father, because her mother dies. Turning 13, the way that Salma thinks about her house changes. 

The house starts to reflect her feelings. For instance, when Salma gets her period, which is a classic sign that the female body is changing from child to woman, the house feels Salma’s physical pain: “the house churned from top to bottom, ached across its spine, made a sound that could almost have been: I. I. I. (l. 23). The house moves and aches the same way Salma would do while having period cramps. 

Salma really goes from innocent to experienced when she meets Margot, a girl that she has a sexual relationship with: “Outside her father’s bedroom she put her hand over Margot’s mouth, felt her forefinger slip between the wide, uneven lips” (l. 62-63). 

At the end of the story, Salma is a very experienced woman.  She brings home boys and uses them to make the house jealous. 

By My Trang thi Ho Salma is a young girl who missed her mother when she was very young: 9 years old. The house in the story is a metaphor to Salma’s innocence. The house is her feeling that always has been with her when she is home. After she meets Margot, the house become the metaphor for Margot, the first love in her life. Salma is a lonely girl. She thinks that her life is dreary and sad. She has not some friends to go around with, and the house is an emptiness as her life. Salma has seen the porno film on the channel which comes too late at night. As a teenager, she feels she need to have sex. One day she meets Margot et the cinema. This film makes both of them exciting. Margot is bisexual and is the first girl who Salma has sex with after they meet at each other at the cinema. Salma innocence is over. Margot has left her life. Salma has sex to another boy and comes into the experience with the love which make her not happy.
By My Trang thi Ho      Salma is a young girl who missed her mother when she was very young: 9 years old. The house in the story is a metaphor to Salma’s innocence. The house is her feeling that always has been with her when she is home. After she m

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A bruise a size as a door handle.

Characterizing Salma:

Salma lost her mother at the age of nine.

Bad relationship with her father

Lonely girl, no friends.

Age 13, in 8 class, gets her period.

Likes to go to the movie

Met Margot in the cinema

She falls in love with Margot

First time she has sex, was with Margot

Loses her virginity

Bring boys home

How the theme innocent and experience unfold in this story?

The first one is when she gets her period. She turns from kid to a young woman.

Then she has sex with Margot, her first woman and falls in love with her.

Brings different boy home.

The title.

A bruise the size and shape of a door handle

I think the bruises comes from the Rough sex salma has, but the meaning of the title is something else. I think in this case it is her broken love that open a new door for her.

Setting:

in a big city, near rich people (father has a big house with a lot of rooms)

in school, in the cinema, in the pub, in the house

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Karina
The setting:
In the beginning we hear about that Salma is moving into he fathers house, because her mother was pasted away.

House : Salma move into her father, and she describe her father like “ He was a bitch on heat, a fucking rabid, no-cock-and balled pug with more horn that a wolfhound. It´s maybe means that the father had cheating at the mother, and the words she think is probley coming stride out from her mothers mouth.

The school : Salma had no friends in school, the girls in school was not her type, so she had never invited any friends home after school.

The cinema : Salma saw a lot of girls just bringing some wine and beer. I n the beginning she though that the girls was at her age but then se saw the alcohol. She was watching the girls and there long legs. But then se saw Margot, and the ending up just starring at each other in the cinema lounge, but they didn’t stared into each other eyes, but from the breast and down, and then Margot took Salma’s hand and they walk strength home to Salma.

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The Setting of A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle

The environment was inside the house; the house is alive.

I think they are rich, because the live in a big house.

In the school she don´t have any friends.

Inthe Cinemashe got a friend from there; Margot.

Salma and her father lives together, when Salma’s mother died and she moved out to her father.

They live in a very big house, and the sound of the house look like alive house. The house love Salma and was very jealous of her and he tries to speak to her, so he was heating Salma at the night, and when she wakes up on the morning and find out the bruises on her body, the house tells her, that is Margot who did that to you.

At nightthe house felt it worst: the pipes in the walls gurning, the oven burning through and through the dark, the heat of everything else: radiators and kettles and the airing cupboard.

The house did not have the human complication to worry that its love spun often into hate.

Salma brought home boys she found in the pub.

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A Bruise the size and shape of a door handle

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A Bruise the size and shape of a door handle

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Julie

a)   Setting:

Out from what the story is telling us indirect that Salma and her father maybe lives in the suburban, Salma is going on a school with a lot of other people, and go often to the cinema. We don’t here anything about the environment outside, but in the house, which is alive and there is many rooms in the house, so it’s a big house, I think there is a pretty environment. They maybe live in England

c) characterization, Margot

I assume Margot is a little bit older than Salma, she has experience and Salma hos no experience she is only thirteen-year-old so maybe Margot is learning Salma to explore things with her sexuality. Margot meets Salma in the cinema

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Salma is a girl of great unfortune. Her mother died, when she was 9 years old and therefore lives with her father now. Since Salma is a bold and observant girl with a good imagination, she sees her father’s house is talking, moving, feeling and doing things and is afraid of the house sometimes.
She is falling in love with a girl older than herself and takes her to the house. She loses her virginity to this older girl called Margot and wants to proudly tell the whole world about her love. She will follow this Margot everywhere and the house is jealous of that – so the house kills Margot. This brings forward sorrow and rebellion in Salma, who is mourning the loss of her first love. She tries to remove the sorrow by being with a lot of boys from the pub, but it does not help and the movies she used to watch with Margot fills her lonely nights.
The house is clearly a mirror of her feelings.

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The setting

It takes place in United States of Amerika (U.S.A). the text is from 2016, so it is a modern story.  The story is imaginary, but it feels like a real world.  The story feels so real because in the story, there is a divorced cupel (Salma’s parent’s). It has to teen girls (our main character Selma and other characters the father and Margot). It is imaginary because the house it is alive and gets jealous of Salma. There is the house, the school, the cinema, and when she disappeared inside the wall. So, we have 3 mains physicals.

The headline and the story fits well together. Because the headline describes the house (the house has a door handle)

When we read the story, it is almost as we are there, and we can feel Salma’s felling.

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 The title and how the theme of innocence and experience unfolds in this story.

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 The title and how the theme of innocence and experience unfolds in this story.

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The title is called "A bruise the size and shape of a door handle". It is a reference describing how the house gets back at Salma for doing shameful things.

The short story deals with the theme innocence and experience and it shows throughout the story. Salma goes from being a child, to moving in with her father without her mother’s support. She turns 13 and gets her period.  Salma feels ashamed and alone and wants to be an adult. She seeks sexual experience and gains more independence. Her childlike innocence degrades the further she subjects herself to experience. She is coming of age and wants to be a woman, but it comes with responsibility and pain. She feels alone and also discovers the dynamics of love which both gives her pleasure and pain. She is essentially dealing with the typical problems every teenager is going through.

The house is probably a metaphor and not meant literally, maybe her feelings of shame, frustration, jealousy and loneliness which manifest as a house in her head. The house and father could be seen as her innocence, which she is trying to break free of through experience, so she can become a woman.

By Mick

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Josefine. The title and how the theme of innocence and experience unfolds in this story:

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Josefine. The title and how the theme of innocence and experience unfolds in this story:

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The title refers to a line, where Salma gets a bruise from the house: “She would wake with bruises shaped like curtain hooks” (l. 52).

The theme unfolds by Salma going through the transition from girl to woman. She starts out as an innocent nine-year old girl, who must live with her father, because her mother dies. Turning 13, the way that Salma thinks about her house changes.

The house starts to reflect her feelings. For instance, when Salma gets her period, which is a classic sign that the female body is changing from child to woman, the house feels Salma’s physical pain: “the house churned from top to bottom, ached across its spine, made a sound that could almost have been: I. I. I. (l. 23). The house moves and aches the same way Salma would do while having period cramps.

Salma really goes from innocent to experienced when she meets Margot, a girl that she has a sexual relationship with: “Outside her father’s bedroom she put her hand over Margot’s mouth, felt her forefinger slip between the wide, uneven lips” (l. 62-63).

At the end of the story, Salma is a very experienced woman.  She brings home boys and uses them to make the house jealous.

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By My Trang thi Ho      Salma is a young girl who missed her mother when she was very young: 9 years old. The house in the story is a metaphor to Salma’s innocence. The house is her feeling that always has been with her when she is home. After she meets Margot, the house become the metaphor for Margot, the first love in her life. Salma is a lonely girl. She thinks that her life is dreary and sad. She has not some friends to go around with, and the house is an emptiness as her life. Salma has seen the porno film on the channel which comes too late at night. As a teenager, she feels she need to have sex. One day she meets Margot et the cinema. This film makes both of them exciting. Margot is bisexual and is the first girl who Salma has sex with after they meet at each other at the cinema. Salma innocence is over. Margot has left her life. Salma has sex to another boy and comes into the experience with the love which make her not happy.  

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By My Trang thi Ho      Salma is a young girl who missed her mother when she was very young: 9 years old. The house in the story is a metaphor to Salma’s innocence. The house is her feeling that always has been with her when she is home. After she meets Margot, the house become the metaphor for Margot, the first love in her life. Salma is a lonely girl. She thinks that her life is dreary and sad. She has not some friends to go around with, and the house is an emptiness as her life. Salma has seen the porno film on the channel which comes too late at night. As a teenager, she feels she need to have sex. One day she meets Margot et the cinema. This film makes both of them exciting. Margot is bisexual and is the first girl who Salma has sex with after they meet at each other at the cinema. Salma innocence is over. Margot has left her life. Salma has sex to another boy and comes into the experience with the love which make her not happy.  

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I think that they live in the country and not in a city. They live in a house. The house is big with a stairs and I think they are rich cause the own a really big house.

It happened in the house, at the school , at the cinema.

Almost the most important things happened inside the house.

Meet Margot at the cinema and went home together. The house get jalousie and starts to do some strange thing, like moving the thing and trying to hit Salma when she was sleeping so when she woke up she will think that Margot did it to her. The house did a crazy things, turns the tv in the night, the walls get very hot. And the house eats her at the end/ends by taking Margot away inside of it.

-      (The house churned from top to bottom. ached across its spine )

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Salma is a teenage girl who lives with her father. She didn’t have any contact with her father until her mother's death. She moves to a new school where she meet Margot and the two become lovers. It seems like the house and Salma are connected in a way. When Salma gets her periode the house feels her pain. “The house churned from top to bottom, ached across its spine, made a sound that could almost have been: I. I. I.” (line 23). The house becomes jealous of the relationship, she has with Margot and end up killing her. “Margot’s left arm was swallowed to the elbow in something that once was wall and now was loose, flabby. With a dry gasp her legs vanished to the knee. Her right arm was taken at the shoulder. Salma was pushed backwards by the sucking walls, the force of them grubbing forward, filling Margot’s mouth. Edged over stomach and breast and neck until Margot was gone.” (line 123) After Margot's death Salma becomes depressed “You have to eat, her father said, you have to sleep, you have to get off that sofa and have a bath.” line (125) Salma takes revenge over the house by sleeping with lots of boys and making it jealous.  

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Salma is a teenage girl who lives with her father. She didn’t have any contact with her father until her mother's death. She moves to a new school where she meet Margot and the two become lovers. It seems like the house and Salma are connected in a way. When Salma gets her periode the house feels her pain. “The house churned from top to bottom, ached across its spine, made a sound that could almost have been: I. I. I.” (line 23). The house becomes jealous of the relationship, she has with Margot and end up killing her. “Margot’s left arm was swallowed to the elbow in something that once was wall and now was loose, flabby. With a dry gasp her legs vanished to the knee. Her right arm was taken at the shoulder. Salma was pushed backwards by the sucking walls, the force of them grubbing forward, filling Margot’s mouth. Edged over stomach and breast and neck until Margot was gone.” (line 123) After Margot's death Salma becomes depressed “You have to eat, her father said, you have to sleep, you have to get off that sofa and have a bath.” line (125) Salma takes revenge over the house by sleeping with lots of boys and making it jealous.  

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ANGE ESTHER YAPO

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A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle by Daisy Johnson (Oliver Svensson)

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A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle by Daisy Johnson (Oliver Svensson)

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Salma is a 13-year-old girl. She lives with her father. Her mom died when she was 9. She lives in the attic. Margot’s relationship with her father is not the best. They barely talk to each other.
Salma is kind of a loner. She doesn’t have any friends at school. She would rather go watch movies at the local cinema after lunchtime. She loves movies directed by January Hargrave.

At the cinema she meets Margot. Margot is bisexual and seems to be rather experienced. Salma is somehow attracted to Margot.
Salma hasn’t tried sex or any kind of intimacy with another person. Until she met Margot. Margot takes Selma’s virginity.

Salma has a weird connection with the house she lives in. She has a feeling, that the house is speaking to her and hurting her. The house reacts to her emotions. The house is jealous on Margot and ends up eating her. Maybe this is just some kind of hallucination.

Salma ends up being addicted to sex. She brings home boys from the pub, having sex with them to take revenge on the house.

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Title and the theme - Juhl Maja Consuela

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Title and the theme - Juhl Maja Consuela

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A bruise the size and shape of a door handle

I will present below some thoughts about the last aspect mentioned in the theme namely: e) the title and how the theme of innocence and experience unfolds in this story.

“A bruise the size and shape of a door handle” is a short story written in 2016 by Daisy Johnson. From the title we can understand that will come a fantastic story with a little bit violence: a bruise. What it’s a bruise? It is “an injury ..” according to the definition from Oxford dictionary.  So, we easily understand from this point at its violence in the story and a lot of fantasy.

The rest of the title give as a chance to see the size and the shape of the bruise or maybe its show us the author of the bruise: “ a door handle”

We study in the first Topic: Innocence and Experience. In all that we read before we started from a level of innocence with our character and we end up with a level of experience. Our story is the story of a 9 years old girl go on from childhood until maturity in witch she discovers her own sexuality.

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A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle by Daisy Johnson

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A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle by Daisy Johnson

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Jyoti
Setting: A short story “A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door handle” revolves in three places , in the House,  at the cinema and at the Pub but most of the time story happens in the house.
Regarding the house,which describes  too big for the to People, indicates that they live in very big house in urban area in England,  which we can see in the text for example”Pick a room, any room. It was too big ……..compulsion to fill”.Despite that the house plays also a very big rolle in the story because the house expresses feelings towords to her such as”The house felt her coming…………..I.I.I”. It seems like that house is alive so house plays rolle as setting as well as a character in the short story.

Narrator: The story has been written in a third person with dialouges.

Pov: we can see a story through Salma’s eyes as we can see her feelings towards to her father, to Margo.