BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help


My Life with the Wave Study Guide

Print-Friendly  Order the PDF version  Order the RTF version
by Octavio Paz
About 38 pages (11,276 words)
My Life with the Wave Summary

Bookmark and Share

Characters

The Captain

The police call the Captain and tell him the narrator is a poisoner. The Captain calls in three agents to arrest the narrator.

The Children

On the train, where the narrator has secretly stored the wave in the water fountain tank, some children try to drink from the fountain, but the narrator blocks their way and offers to buy them lemonade instead. He is later accused of trying to poison the children by contaminating the water.

The Conductor

After he is told that the narrator has contaminated the water in the fountain, the Conductor of the train calls upon the Inspector.

The Fish

When the wave complains of loneliness, the narrator installs a colony of fish in the house. The fish soon monopolize the wave's attentions, and the narrator regards.....

This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 1,059 words. This study guide contains 11,276 words (approx. 38 pages at 300 words per page).

Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our My Life with the Wave Access Pass.

Copyrights
My Life with the Wave from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy