The Two Fishermen

1. For what newsprint does Michael bring up work for? (1-2) Michael Foster works for the town paper, the Examiner. He is a reporter. 2. why did Michael not want to be give awayn with Smitty? (3-4) Michael didnt want to be seen with Smitty because Smitty is a hangman. Every hangman is detestd because stack think that he is cruel and because he kills pris angiotensin converting enzymers who are friends or parents with people in the town. If Michael is seen to be friend with Smitty, he would have a bad reputation and people of his town would hate him because he is supporting someone that all the others hated.It wont further affect his life, however also his work, because no one will meet with him anymore and he could never become a reporter for urban center paper as he always wished. 3. Explain the final characterisation of the apologue? (5-6) The story finished with Smitty giving two big angle folded in a newspaper to Michael in front of everyone in the jail. notwithstandi ng Michael let the other tiperman take the look for and through it at Smitty. First, the slant in this situation symbolize the fellowship surrounded by Michael and the hangman and the newspaper represents the orderliness, the people how hated, ridicule and criticize Smitty.When Smitty give Michael the newspaper folded fish, he is whirl Michael to become his friend, and saying that Michael will need to renounce other peoples judgments about him to become his friend, just like he involve to damp the newspaper to see the fish. The reporter, by accepting it, is accepting the friendship and the condition. Then, Michael let the other fisherman take his fish and through it at Smitty. By doing it, the young reporter is letting others to break the friendship between him and the hangman.He rejected the friendship and betrayed the hangman. In other words, he could unwrap the newspaper that folded the fish. After, when Smitty saw the fish, he could hardly believe it. Michael run des patch shamefully. Morley Callaghan, at the final scene, showed two conflicts. The first one is man versus society. This one is very evident. We can see clearly Smitty facing the whole society that criticizes, hates him. The second one is man versus himself. The man is Michael. He has to choose between Smitty and the rest of the society.He had the opportunity to explore the true personality of the hangman distant other people and he make dos that he is a substantially effective guy. Even though he knows that theres no rationality Smitty should be hated, he still doesnt want to be seen with him. We could see clearly his inner conflict when Morley wrote, its different now, its different, he kept thinking, as he held the fish in the newspaper taut under his arm. Michael, at that moment, was questioning himself if he should help Smitty but stake his own reputation.At the end, the expression on Smittys face as he saw the fish on the road made Michael fiery with shame and he trie d to get out of the crowd. This shows that Michael is sorry for the hangman, but he couldnt get rid of the newspaper The author, though the story showed us how a person can be betrayed even though he is a good friend and kind and moral person. 4. seek the importance of the fish? (7-8) The fish in the short story The twain Fishermen is a very important symbol, a symbol of friendship.Smitty gives Michael a fish to show that he valued the time they spent together and that he was enjoying Michael and the company. It is a sign of their friendship. But Morley Callaghan, the author, added some detail to the simple fish. She gets it confined with newspaper. She gave the newspaper importance by repeating it various times, two good-sized salmon-bellied lake trout, folded in a newspaper he was carrying the fish, folded in the newspaper. And he held the fish in the newspaper. The use of newspaper means that Michael would be able to become real friend with Smitty only if he denies all the critics from other people and deny what the rest of the society thinks, like he would need to unwrap the fish from the newspaper to really see the fish. So, when Michael accepts the fish in front of everyone, he accepts the condition and the friendship, because if he doesnt want to be friend, he could not take the fish and do like if he doesnt know the hangman. Then, when he lets the other fisherman to through the fish at Smitty, he lets him at the same time break the friendship.Somehow, he betrayed Smitty and lets the newspaper to dissolve him and the fish forever. The fish is also a Christian symbol. It is a whodunit code used and only recognized by Christians to connect with severally other without revealing themselves to the oppressors. This could also be linked to the Two Fishermen because their friendship is something secret. Their meeting is something secret too. Only they know why Smitty offers a fish instead of something else. In brief, the author used the fish as a very important symbol in this short story.