The Day They Took My Uncle | The Day They Took My Uncle

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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 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...

The Day They Took My Uncle | The Day They Took My Uncle

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