The Day They Took My Uncle (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lionel G. García
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1940's
- Setting: A small Texas town
- Principal Characters: The boy, Mercé, His parents, The sheriff
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Children, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, 1940’s, Rural or country life, West, U.S., Alcoholism or alcoholics, Mental illness, Substance abuse, Farms, farmers, or farming, Drinking or drunkenness, Texas, Mental institutions, hospitals or asylums
- Locales: Texas
The Story
The narrator recalls a moment during his childhood in Texas when he and his young girlfriend played under the house, and she gave him his first look at female genitalia. He then remembers his uncle, a man he recalls as “insane, crazy.” The uncle's madness manifested itself in bouts in which he would yank his earlobes violently and curse at people obscenely while remarking on imaginary scandalous events of their past. The narrator particularly remembers the moment when his uncle called the town mayor “a sonofabitch and a son of a whore, plus a bastard” and then...
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